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What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
March 18, 2024 YouTube
Two big ideas in biology: the evolution of species via mutation, fitness and natural selection; and the embryological development of individuals, from fertilized egg to whole organisms. How do these two big ideas -- “evo-devo,” as it’s called -- relate?
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Penrose Is Just Speculating!
March 18, 2024 YouTube
Penrose's phantom field is a purely mathematical entity that suddenly turns into physical matter, which is inconsistent with what we know physics does.
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Building a brain: How does it generate its exquisite diversity of cells?
March 18, 2024 The Transmitter
High-throughput technologies have revealed new insights into how the brain develops. But a truly comprehensive map of neurodevelopment requires further advances.
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God, String Theory, and the State of Physics
March 17, 2024 YouTube
the potential shortcomings of string theory, whether or not the world is a hologram, arguments for the existence of god, and the role of science in ethics
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Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics
March 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Invisibility Isn't Science Fiction: It's Interesting Engineering
March 16, 2024 Mind Matters
Things are visible only when light strikes them but light can sometimes be manipulated so as not to strike them, with remarkable results.
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Anna Karenina and How To Read Long Books
March 16, 2024 Mind Matters
“One chapter at a time" is actually how books like Tolstoy's were intended to be read.
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Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell
March 16, 2024 Science Alert
Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.
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Can Neo-Darwinism Explain the Origin and Variation of the Hummingbirds?
March 15, 2024
Applying the Facts Discovered by Mutation Genetics, Natural Selection, and Population Genetics to the Humming Birds
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Is the Bible's Definition of Faith Opposed to Logic and Evidence?
March 15, 2024 Wintery Knight
Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is.
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Could Earth Life Survive on a Red Dwarf Planet?
March 15, 2024 Universe Today
Scientists can only make educated guesses about which exoplanets may be habitable. Even the closest exoplanet is four light-years away, and though four is a small integer, the distance is enormous.
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How did matter come to exist in our Universe?
March 15, 2024 Big Think
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
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Rapidly Dividing Bacteria Coordinate Gene Expression and Replication
March 15, 2024 The Scientist
E. coli divides faster than it can replicate its genome, while simultaneously expressing its genes. Scientists recently revealed the intricate molecular coordination that makes this possible.
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News Update/Commentary
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
March 15, 2024 Science Daily
A new study challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.
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Single mathematical model governs primate brain shape across species
March 15, 2024 New Scientist
An analysis of primate brains shows that the pattern of folds on the surface follows the same mathematical pattern across species
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Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos
March 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Philosophy of Free Will
March 15, 2024 YouTube
Free will is a classic and perennial problem in philosophy. It is a probe of profound issues of how the world works as well as how the mind works. What are the primary issues of free will? What are the opposing views? Can philosophical analysis help?
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Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution
March 15, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Book
In search of sentience
March 14, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6688, p.1186
A provocative proposition paves the way for a long-overdue conversation about consciousness | See Also Amazon
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What proportion of the human genome is actually functional?
March 14, 2024 Creation Ministries International
And how much variation is tolerable?
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Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System
March 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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West Virginia Passes Bill Protecting Teacher Rights to Answer Student Questions on “Scientific Theories”
March 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The unselfish gene: a challenge to Richard Dawkins
March 14, 2024 YouTube
Denis Noble takes on Richard Dawkins on the causality of change in genetics. Do genes control the organism or does the organism control its genes? Can organisms change their DNA?
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Fine-Tuning of Universe Makes a Top Neuroscientist “Very Hopeful"
March 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Allen Institute’s Christof Koch talks about the assumptions underlying his consciousness theory -- which led many other neuroscientists to try to Cancel him
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Healthy Debate? No Thanks, Says National Association of Biology Teachers
March 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Atheism’s Four Horsemen -- Where Are They Now?
March 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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At Chronicle of Higher Ed: Critical Thinking Isn't Just Chat
March 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Gary Smith and Jeffrey Funk test Big Tech’s chatbots for critical thinking skills before an academic audience -- with sobering but often hilarious results
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Is Our World, Post-1950, Really a Geological Epoch?
March 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Some earth scientists lobby for calling the past 75 years the Anthropocene epoch, giving it equal importance with the 16-million-year Upper Jurassic
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Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
March 13, 2024 YouTube
If the question is “What brought all into existence?” the answer is “Consciousness”. Some say this is a ‘cosmic consciousness’ of which our personal consciousness is a small part. Others believe that the ultimate consciousness is God.
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The humiliating truth behind Harvard astronomer’s “alien” spherules
March 13, 2024 Big Think
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.
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We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe," Nobel Prize Winner Says
March 13, 2024 Futurism (The Byte)
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Rethinking space and time could let us do away with dark matter
March 13, 2024 New Scientist
Most physicists believe that only a quantum theory of gravity can fully explain mysteries of the universe like dark matter, but now an idea called “post-quantum gravity" is demonstrating an alternative approach
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolution of menopause in toothed whales
March 13, 2024 Nature
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Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
March 13, 2024 Nature
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.
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Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease’s history
March 13, 2024 Nature
Genetic information from ancient remains is helping to reveal how malaria has moved and evolved alongside people.
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Whales make waves in the quest to discover why menopause evolved
March 13, 2024 Nature
Why do several species of whale experience menopause, and why does the phenomenon occur at all? Analysing whale data might help to answer these questions and shed light on why menopause evolved in humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Sulfur and the origin of life
March 13, 2024 Science Daily
A new study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.
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JWST Sets Record for Early Mature Galaxies
March 13, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The James Webb Space Telescope sees mature stars and galaxies too early for big bang theory
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Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate
March 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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A New Discovery Reveals Why Darwin’s ‘Living Fossil’ Keeps Defying Evolution
March 13, 2024 Popular Mechanics
As the world evolved rapidly around them, gars weirdly just stayed the same. Now we know why.
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?
March 12, 2024 YouTube
That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?
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About the Claim That Chatbot Claude 3 Showed Self-Awareness ...
March 12, 2024 Mind Matters
Has anyone noticed the resemblance between the conviction that an AI project thinks like a human and that extraterrestrials are visiting us?
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Grappling Honestly with Science's Blind Spot
March 12, 2024 Mind Matters
An astrophysicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher all walk into a bar and say, “At the heart of science lies something we do not see that makes science possible” Um… yes!
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?
March 12, 2024 YouTube
That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. But can we then make the additional argument that the universe is somehow required to contain consciousness?
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Scientists have replicated Earth's earliest form of evolution in the lab
March 12, 2024 Daily Mail (UK)
A minor theory of the creation of life just got a major boost in new experiments. The ‘RNA World' hypothesis proposed that Earth had RNA before life existed. Scientists have now shown that RNA could have existed and evolved before life.
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Is life based on a seeming violation of Newton’s law in molecular interactions?
March 12, 2024 Pennsylvania State University
Interactions between molecules that are not equal and opposite can occur naturally, researchers demonstrate
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A Leap Towards Building Synthetic Organisms
March 12, 2024 The Scientist
Douglas Blackiston’s frog-fueled research seeks to push the boundaries of understanding developing organisms.
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News Update/Commentary
Gene flow in giraffes and what it means for their conservation
March 12, 2024 Science Daily
Giraffes, with their bizarre body plan, have always held a special place in the minds of evolutionary biologists. In a new study whole-genome sequencing data investigated the evolutionary processes occurring within giraffes.
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers expand our understanding of how the body and brain communicate
March 12, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers investigating how the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are involved in processing cardiac and respiratory signals.
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From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity
March 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today