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Articles of Historical Interest: A Collection of Scientific Interdisciplinary Literature

"Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation", by Martin A. Nowak
Science, December 8, 2006
"Evolution of cooperation by multilevel selection", by A. Traulsen, M.A. Novak
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 26, 2006
"The middle way", by R. B. Laughlin, D. Pines, J. Schmalian, B.o P. Stojković, P. Wolynes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 37 (2000), No. 1, 32-37.
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution", by Theodosius Dobzhansky
The American Biology Teacher, 35 (1973), No. 3, 125-129.
"More Is Different, Broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science", by Philip Warren Anderson
Science, New Series, 177 (1972) 393-396.
"The Convergence of Science and Religion", by Charles Hard Townes
IBM's Think, April 1, 1966, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 2-7
"The Scientist qua Scientist makes Value Judgments", by Richard Rudner
Philosophy of Science 20 (1953) 1-6
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence", by Alan Mathison Turing
Mind 59 (1950) 433-460
"The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science", by M.B. Foster
Mind 43 (1934) 446-468

Articles from the Press

"Tim Cook to MIT grads: 'How will you serve humanity?'"
MIT News, June 9, 2017
"Keep doors open for constructive dialogue between religion and science"
Nature, May 17, 2017
"Faith and Science Come Toghether at Conference for Society of Catholic Scientists", by John Farrell
Forbes, April 23, 2017
"School daze"
Nature, March 8, 2017
"‘Gold Mass’ for scientists to be celebrated for the first time", by Christine M Williams
Catholic Herald, November 10, 2016
"Scientists Don’t Have to Choose between Faith and Reason" by Stephen M. Barr
National Review, November 1, 2016
"Religion and science can have a true dialogue", by Kathryn Pritchard
Nature, September 22, 2016
"Is science only for the rich?", By Jane J. Lee
Nature, September 21, 2016
"Science in the age of selfless", by Donald Geman and Stuart Geman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 23, 2016
"Meet the challenge of interdisciplinary science"
Nature, June 29, 2016
"Put innovation science at the heart of discovery", by Andrew Kusiak
Nature, February 18, 2016
Come together,
Nature, January 7, 2016, p. 5
"Faith and science can find common ground", by David M. Lodge
Nature, July 30, 2015, p. 505
"A new era, A Review of God's Planet", by Stepher M. Barr
First Things, June 24, 2015
"Why the Pope's letter on climate change matters", by Quintin Schiermaier
Nature News, June 18, 2015
"The end of the University", by Roger Scruton
First Things, April 19, 2015
"A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification", David Baltimore et al
Science, April 3, 2015, pp. 36-38
"What scares the new atheists", by John Gray
The Guardian, March 3, 2015
The Scale of the Universe and the Religious view, by Hugh Hunter
First Things, January 19, 2015
Time for the social sciences
Nature, January 1, 2015
Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God, by Eric Metaxas
The Wall Street Journal, December 25, 2014
"A little knowledge. The significance of expertise passed on by direct contact - tacit knowledge - is moot"
Nature, October 8, 2014
"On The University and Religion"
The Oxford Times, May 29, 2014
"The mystery of language evolution", by M,D.Hauser, C.Yang, R.Berwick, I.Tattersall, M.Ryan, J. Watumull, N. Chomsky, R.Lewontin
Frontiers in Psychology, May 7, 2014
"Book review: ‘Why Science Does Not Disprove God'", by Alan Lightman
The Washington Post, April 10, 2014
"Scientific Pride and Prejudice", by Gray Matter
The New York Times, January 31, 2014
"Emerging powers need a more-inclusive science", by Colin Macilwain
Nature, January 2, 2014, p. 7
"The Feynman Lectures of Physics and the need for supporting Teaching"
Nature, December 5, 2013, p. 8
"Are we alone in the Universe?", by Paul Davies
The New York Times, November 25, 2013
"The Christian Intellectual", by R.R. Reno
First Things, November 2013
"Kelvin's conundrum: Is it possible to believe in God and science?", by Peter Crutchley
BBC - Religion & Ethics, October 20, 2013
"Why Is There Anything at All?", by Edward Feser
First Things - On the Square, October 4, 2013
"Francis Collins on books between science and faith", interviewed by The New York Times
The New York Times, July 25, 2013
"Nature Loves to Hide", by David Bentley Hart
First Things, May 2013
UV astronomer discovers Earthlike planet, keeps the faith
The Seattle Times, April 26, 2013
"Can Science Lead to Faith?", by Gary Marcus
The New Yorker, April 26, 2013
Turin Shroud Going on TV, With Video From Pope
The New York Times, March 29, 2013
"The Value of Creativity and Imagination in Science", by M. Konnikova, a comment to Ingrid Wickelgren's book "Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes"
Scientific American, January 4, 2013
"The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities", by Natalie Anger
The New York Times, December 31, 2012
"Chance, by Design", by Stephen M. Barr
First Things, December 2012
"What Science can't Answer", interview to British Scientist Susan Greenfield
The Tablet, November 24, 2012, pp. 6-7
"Science and religion are united in a shared sense of wonder", by Jeff Forshaw
The Guardian
"Sometimes science must give way to religion", by Daniel Sarewitz
Nature 488 (2012) 431
"Not understanding nothing", a review of L.M. Krauss' "A Universe from Nothing", by E. Feser
First things, 2012, June-July
"Alone in the Universe. Why Our Planet is Unique", by J. Gribbin, book review by A. Hirshfeld
The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2011
"Philosopher Sticks Up for God", on the new A. Plantinga's Book on Religion and Science
New York Times, 13.12.2011
"Edwin Hubble in translation trouble"
Nature, 27.06.2011
"What is Artificial about Life?", by A. Giuliani, I. Licata, C. Modonesi, P. Crosignani
The Scientific World Journal 11 (2011) 651–654
"U.S. College Students’ Perception of Religion and Science: Conflict, Collaboration, or Independence? A Research Note"
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2011) 50, 175–186
"Deflating the Genomic Bubble", by J.P. Evans et al
Science, February 18, 2011
"Philosophy lives. Why Stephen Hawking’s attempt to banish natural theology only shows why we need it", by John Haldane
First Things, January 2011
"The Truth wears off", by Jonah Lehrer
The New Yorker, 2010, December 13
"Curiouser and curiouser: managing discovery making", by Ahmed Zewail
Nature 468 (2010), 347
"Even Stephen Hawking doesn't quite manage to explain why we are here"
The Economist 2010, September 9
"Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010) Obituary"
Nature Physics 6 , 633 (2010), september
"How to feed a Hungry World", Nature's Editorial
July 29, 2010, Nature 466, 531-532
"Birth of the first synthetic cell. On Craig Venter's experiment", by Ewen Callaway
New Scientist, May 20, 2010
"Hubble Space Telescope clocks up 20 years", by Katharine Sanderson
NatureNews, April 22 2010
"Cogito Ergo Sum by MRI", by Allan H. Ropper, M.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, February 2010
"Genotype-phenotype mapping and the end of the ‘genes as blueprint’ metaphor", by Massimo Pigliucci
The Royal Society, February 2010
"Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve? Some biologists are calling for a rethink of the rules of evolution", by Bob Grant
The Scientist, January 2010
"The Very Idea of a University: Aristotle, Newman and Us", by Alasdair MacIntyre
British Journal of Educational Studies, 57 (2009) 347-362
"Making Automation Work", by Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, 52, pp. 18-19, 2009
"Vatican's Celestial Eye: Seeking Not Angels but Data"
The New York Times, June 23 2009
"Are you an honest scientist?", by Bruce Charlton
Medical Hypotheses, 73, pp. 633-635, 2009
"Getting Stem Cells Right", by Maureen L. Condic
First Things, February 2008
"Laws of Nature, Source Unknown", by Dennis Overbye
New York Times, December 18, 2007
"Taking Science on Faith", by Paul Davies
The New York Times, November 24, 2007
"Faith and Quantum Theory", by Stephen M. Barr
First Things, March 2007
"What is a miracle?", by D.P. Sulmasy
Southern Medical Journal, 100 (2007) 1223-1228