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Astrophysicist: Don't Say That Chatbots “Hallucinate"
February 26, 2024 Mind Matters
Adam Frank points out that human-type “hallucination” is not at all what drives a chatbot to claim that the Russians sent bears into space
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What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?
February 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The 4 biggest questions about alien life, answered by an astrobiologist
February 25, 2024 Science Focus, BBC
Scientists are becoming increasingly optimistic that extraterrestrial life is out there. Could we finally be on the brink of finding it?
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Near-Death: What People Learn When They Are (Briefly) Dead
February 25, 2024 Mind Matters
In this excerpt, Prof Gary Habermas reports that sometimes the returned experiencer says that someone else has died -- but the official news only comes later
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Why Doesn't God Just Do Something Dramatic To Prove He Exists?
February 25, 2024 Mind Matters
The Divine Hiddenness argument for atheism, espoused by Matt Dillahunty, is that, if a perfectly loving God existed, reasonable unbelief would be impossible
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Prof: There's a Growing Number of Verified Near-Death Experiences
February 25, 2024 Mind Matters
Gary Habermas notes more than 110 NDEs where experiencers’ detailed reports of what they saw when they were flatlined have been corroborated later
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A New Look at Three Deep Questions
February 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
The primary questions addressed here are obviously of deep consequence: Does God exist? Where did life come from? and Is free will real? A refreshing aspect is the objective coverage of the broad range of arguments surrounding these questions.
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Why science relies too much on mathematics
February 24, 2024 New Scientist
Mathematics is at the heart of modern science but we shouldn’t forget other ways to reason, says author and researcher
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So Who Are Today's Disinformation Police?
February 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Social scientists are striving to develop ways to blunt the force of information that governments would rather the public did not know or heed
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The quantum world: Dreams and delusions
February 24, 2024 YouTube
From string theory to quantum gravity and quantum computers, the quantum discourse is all the buzz in physics and beyond. But what is possible and what mere fantasy? Can we bring together relativity and quantum mechanics?
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Cosmic Dust Could Have Helped Get Life Going on Earth
February 24, 2024 Universe Today
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The Y Chromosome Is Vanishing
February 23, 2024 Science Alert
a new sex gene may be the future of men
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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’
February 23, 2024 New Scientist
Martin MacInnes, the author of New Scientist's latest book club pick, the Booker prize-longlisted sci-fi novel In Ascension, on how he came to write it (and a bit of a spoiler)
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If AI's Don't Know What They're Doing, Can We Hope To Explain It?
February 23, 2024 Mind Matters
With AI, we have a world of powerful, useful, but entirely opaque systems. We don’t know why they make decisions and neither do they
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Retracted Paper Is a Compelling Case for Reform
February 23, 2024 Mind Matters
The credibility of science is being undermined by misuse of the tools created by scientists. Here's an example from an economics paper I was asked to comment on
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Is Tiktaalik really an evolutionary transition?
February 23, 2024 YouTube
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JWST Is Tracking Down the Cosmic Origins of Earth’s Water
February 23, 2024 Scientific American
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets
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Probe of NSF Over ‘Brazen Attempt’ To Censor Free Speech
February 23, 2024 Daily Wire
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is facing pressure from Senate Republicans after a report revealed efforts to combat alleged misinformation.
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How long will life persist in our Universe?
February 23, 2024 Big Think
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
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The Great Right Brain Debate
February 23, 2024 iai News
The idea of the brain being split into right and left hemispheres that do radically different things has entered the popular imagination.
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The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess
February 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Tethers, Handshakes, and Multitaskers in the Cell
February 23, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Getting It Together
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Why, Despite All the Hype We Hear, AI Is Not “One of Us"
February 22, 2024 Mind Matters
It takes an imaginative computer scientist to believe that the neural network knows what it’s classifying or identifying. It’s a bunch of relatively simple math
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How Data Can Appear in Science Papers -- Out of Thin Air!
February 22, 2024 Mind Matters
At Retraction Watch, Gary Smith explains how one author team apparently copy pasted missing data about green innovation in various countries
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes
February 22, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6685, p.918-923
a pulse of evolutionary innovation that occurred at the origin of snakes more than 150 million years ago led to an expansion of diet in squamate reptiles, which had cascading impacts on ecosystems that persist today
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Algal Microfossils Show No Evolution
February 22, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me
February 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Arno A. Penzias (1933–2024), co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background
February 22, 2024 Nature
Astrophysicist whose radio-wave observations confirmed the Big Bang origin of the Universe.
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Prebiotically plausible chemoselective pantetheine synthesis in water
February 22, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6685, p.911-918
The route uses nitrile chemistry common to other prebiotic syntheses and thus fits into a broader picture for prebiotic cyanosulfidic reactions that are likely candidates for the chemistry that gave rise to life on early Earth.
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We Could Snoop on Extraterrestrial Communications Networks
February 22, 2024 Universe Today
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Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began?
February 22, 2024 Big Think
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn't mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
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Where Did Humans Evolve? (Probably Not Where You’re Thinking)
February 22, 2024 Atlas Obscura
For decades, East Africa was considered the birthplace of our species. Fossils from Morocco suggest otherwise.
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News Update/Commentary
Three years later, search for life on Mars continues
February 22, 2024 Science Daily
Science team discovers evidence of hydrothermal systems using Perseverance rover
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News Update/Commentary
Copies of antibiotic resistance genes greatly elevated in humans and livestock
February 22, 2024 Science Daily
Duplicate genes provide a mechanism for resistance to spread and enable evolving resistance to new drugs.
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Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot
February 22, 2024 Science Daily
More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
Killer instinct drove evolution of mammals' predatory ancestors
February 22, 2024 Science Daily
The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers suggest.
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News Update/Commentary
Compound vital for all life likely played a role in life's origin
February 22, 2024 Science Daily
A chemical compound essential to all living things has been synthesized in a lab in conditions that could have occurred on early Earth, suggesting it played a role at the outset of life.
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Ignoring the Sauropod in the Room
February 22, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists continue to ignore dinosaur soft tissue as they pontificate about fossilization
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Stifling Opposition Is the Real “Anti-Science”
February 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Prehistoric Children with Down Syndrome Were Valued, Burials Show
February 21, 2024 Mind Matters
The six found so far from one culture, identified by DNA evidence, did not live long but they were buried with grave goods
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Why Chatbots (LLMs) Flunk Routine Grade 9 Math Tests
February 21, 2024 Mind Matters
Lack of true understanding is the Achilles heel of Large Language Models (LLMs). Have a look at the excruciating results
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A Canticle for Leibowitz, a Canticle of Speculative Warning
February 21, 2024 Mind Matters
A 1959 novel's speculation of nuclear fallout is yet a story of hope.
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Did Neanderthals Use Glue? Researchers Find Evidence that Sticks
February 21, 2024 New York University
Analysis of 40,000-year old tools reveals surprisingly sophisticated construction
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Blog Post
Multiverses Are Pseudoscientific
February 21, 2024
Way back in 1990 I tossed off a fluffy item for Scientific American, “Here a Universe, There a Universe,” about whether our cosmos might be just one in an “infinitude,” as several theories of physics implied. I kept the tone light
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News Update/Commentary
An awkward family reunion: Sea monsters are our cousins
February 21, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists uncover how sea lamprey brain development is remarkably similar to that of humans
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News Update/Commentary
Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution
February 21, 2024 Science Daily
Comparison of over 200 high-quality butterfly and moth genomes reveals key insights into their biology, evolution and diversification over the last 250 million years, as well as clues for conservation.
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Yeast Made to Harvest Light Hint at Evolution’s Past
February 21, 2024 The Scientist
Scientists transferred light-harvesting proteins into yeast for the first time, shining a light on the past lives of eukaryotic cells.
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Archaeometric Dating
February 21, 2024 Answers in Genesis
The only reliable way to calibrate dating methods is with the Bible’s history.
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Shelled Eggs Crack Evolution
February 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Explaining shelled eggs by natural selection is a major problem for evolution
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Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution
February 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today