Nautis Project

The Storms Are Raging On the Rolling Sea

Matthew Clapp — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:28:36 +0000

When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, I could offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and the stars appear and there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years [...]

Bilateral Symmetry in Embryos and Supermodels

Matthew Clapp — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:44:00 +0000

Bilateral symmetry in an organism means that one half is roughly a mirror image of the other half. The plane of symmetry is the sagittal plane (vertically through the head and body, with one of each sense organ and limb pair on either side). It’s not a perfect match but it’s remarkably close. This symmetry [...]

Sheldrake Responds to His Critics at TED

Matthew Clapp — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:24:28 +0000

Response to the TED Scientific Board’s Statement Rupert Sheldrake March 18, 2013 I would like to respond to TED’s claims that my TEDx talk “crossed the line into pseudoscience”, contains ”serious factual errors” and makes “many misleading statements.” This discussion is taking place because the militant atheist bloggers Jerry Coyne and P.Z. Myers denounced me, [...]

The Myth of Sisyphus

Matthew Clapp — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:25:09 +0000

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus A philosophical classic. If you were condemned to roll a boulder up a hill every day could you find meaning in that? If you could not find meaning what would you do? Without meaning in your life, would you commit suicide? Camus gets inside the head of Sisyphus [...]

The Science Delusion @ TED

Matthew Clapp — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:23:55 +0000

3/15 Update: The video on the TEDx YouTube channel was removed by TED. I downloaded a copy before they took it down and posted it to Vimeo (creative commons license). TED created a page where people are invited to debate the merits of their decision to remove the videos. The statement from TED reads, “After [...]

Sheldrake Link Roundup – Jan 2013

Matthew Clapp — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:06:33 +0000

The latest Sheldrake videos and podcasts… Videos Science Set Free @ California Institute of Integral Studies In this video, recorded in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2012, Dr. Sheldrake speaks about his new book and answers audience questions at a presention sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies and held at the First Unitarian [...]

Rupert Sheldrake @ University of London APRU

Matthew Clapp — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:36:56 +0000

The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (APRU) at Goldsmiths, University of London is one of only a few academic research centres to examine weird science. From ghosts and telepathy to memory and perception, the APRU investigates ostensibly paranormal experiences, replying on psychology and physics to provide rational, plausible explanations for unusual phenomena. This presentation is from [...]

Paranormal Phenomena by Simon Thorpe

Matthew Clapp — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:26:57 +0000

This is a really interesting presentation originally made on the 15th of January 2013 to a group called “Incognu” which is an association of people interested in Cognition in Toulouse, France. Simon Thorpe is Directeur de Recherche at Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition. Thorpe’s basic position can be summarized as follows: Can paranormal phenomena [...]

Living with Dislecksia

Matthew Clapp — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:43:29 +0000

Just about every day at work I have to dial a ridiculously long string of numbers in order to join a conference call. Just about every day on the internet I have to fill out those mind-bending captua forms. For me, it takes intense concentration to complete those tasks. Maybe you can imagine what college [...]

Taboo Biology: Epigenetics

Matthew Clapp — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:16:17 +0000

Throughout the twentieth century, one of the strongest taboos in biology was against the inheritance of acquired characteristics, sometimes called Lamarckian inheritance, after the pioneering evolutionary biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). Lamarck proposed that adaptations by plants and animals could be passed on to their offspring. In this respect, Charles Darwin was a convinced Lamarckian. He [...]