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Could Our Minds Be Bigger Than Even a Multiverse?
February 28, 2024 Mind Matters
The relationship between information, entropy, and probability suggests startling possibilities. If you find the math hard, a face-in-the-clouds illustration works too
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The Information Age Has Forgotten Formation
February 27, 2024 Mind Matters
We need more than mere information. We need practices, habits, and experiences that will positively shape who we become.
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News Update/Commentary
RNA as a common language, presented in extracellular speech-bubbles
February 27, 2024 Science Daily
Decoding the conversations between microbes of hypersaline environments reveals deep insights into the origins of complex life.
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Why Mainstream Media Can No Longer Really Fight Censorship
February 27, 2024 Mind Matters
Whether they realize it or not, by accepting funds in order to survive, the MSM will gradually become agencies of government
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News Update/Commentary
Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies
February 27, 2024 Science Daily
The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater experimentation with instruments from different cultures.
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Climate Crisis or Media Hype? Investigating the Reality of Earth's Climate
February 27, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Cherry-Picked Climate Data
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Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest
February 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
To Dance at Two Weddings
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Giant ‘bubble’ in space could be source of powerful cosmic rays
February 26, 2024 Nature
Scientists have identified a region in the Milky Way capable of accelerating particles to super-high energy levels.
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To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle
February 26, 2024 Nature
Explaining isolated steps on the road from simple chemicals to complex living organisms is not enough. Looking at the big picture could help to bridge rifts in this fractured research field.
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Specified Complexity Made Simple
February 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
The Historical Backdrop
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Why Can't Our Memories Be “Stored" in the Brain?
February 26, 2024 Mind Matters
The image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but it is not relevant to how the human mind works
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Near Death: Why Corroborated NDEs Can't Just Be Explained Away
February 26, 2024 Mind Matters
In some cases, Gary Habermas recounts, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurate
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Science creep is a menace
February 26, 2024 Washington Examiner
“Who is a scientist?” The answers “ranged from very narrow (just people who are doing or planning research) all the way to very broad (every living human).”
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Video
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution
February 26, 2024 YouTube
The species we recognise as our own -- anatomically modern humans -- has existed for only 300,000 years, a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. And yet during that time our species has been shaped by strong evolutionary forces
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A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
February 26, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into disarray. But physicists are now discovering that the pull of disorder may not be so easily overcome.
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How Did Humans Evolve to Use Everyday Tools?
February 26, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine
An anthropologist explains why we experience many objects, from tennis rackets to cars, as extensions of our bodies
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Blog Post
Specified Complexity Made Simple
February 26, 2024
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Ten Evolutionary Fairytales
February 26, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Responding to evolutionary propaganda
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Year of the Dragon: Real Dragons Lived
February 26, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists -- not cryptozoologists -- are calling this beast a real dragon
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In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology
February 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France
February 26, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Since the early Holocene, western and central Europe was inhabited by a genetically distinct group of hunter-gatherers.
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Huge set of galaxies is set to form largest cluster in known universe
February 26, 2024 New Scientist
Astronomers have spotted a gargantuan protocluster -- the primordial beginnings of a galaxy cluster -- by searching near a quasar in the early universe
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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.