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Gödel, Escher, Bach: A daunting but captivating look at consciousness
August 12, 2026 New Scientist
Douglas Hofstadter’s weighty tome, an exploration of mathematics, music and the mind, runs to almost 800 pages -- but is worth the effort
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Neuroscience is in big trouble
August 12, 2026
Neuroscientists have long assumed that when a brain region becomes more active, more blood flows to it. That assumption is the entire basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging. A new paper now says it's wrong for about 40% of the signals
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Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations of Intelligent Design
August 12, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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Want to get better at making decisions?
August 11, 2026 BBC
Ask an ant
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Dawkins' neo-Darwinism is itself a religious theory
August 11, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
Organisms are not passive, they engineer evolution
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Darwin’s Name-It-and-Claim-It Scheme
August 11, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Naming a mystery is not the same as solving it. Here we meet the secular equivalent of “abracadabra”
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There Must Be “Two Origins of Life”
August 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Enzymes in Bacteria and Archaea Are So Dissimilar
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Thirty Years of Intelligent Design Predicting the Unexpected Genome
August 11, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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For Eons, Human Evolution Barely Budged -- Then It Exploded.
August 11, 2026 Popular Mechanics
Now Scientists Know Why. ... A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.
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The Tantalizing Possibility of Locating Consciousness in the Brain
August 11, 2026 Noema Magazine
Few discoveries would be more consequential than identifying the specific neural structures responsible for subjective experience.
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News Update/Commentary
Black holes older than the Big Bang could explain dark matter
August 11, 2026 Science Daily
Black holes from before the Big Bang may still be hiding throughout the Universe.
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Denisovans may have dwarfed other ancient humans
August 11, 2026 New Scientist
Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins stood up to 190 centimetres tall
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Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses
August 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Hey, Great News!
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Dark Matter Does Not Exist
August 10, 2026
A discussion of the short but brilliant paper that convinced me that dark matter does not exist back in 2007. There have been others since, but this was the first.
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Thirty Years of Darwin’s Black Box
August 10, 2026 ID the Future
the book’s impact and the staying power of its arguments
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Did the Tech Bros Trick Us?
August 10, 2026 Mind Matters
They are now trying to push through trillion-dollar IPOs
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Robert J. Marks II on the Benefits and Potential Perils of AI
August 10, 2026 Mind Matters
What does AI mean for the future of humanity?
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The Center for Science and Culture at 30
August 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Vision Becomes Reality
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The fatal flaw in our search for alien life
August 10, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
The size of the universe is no reason for optimism
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AI Didn’t Create Artificial Viruses; Humans Did.
August 10, 2026 Mind Matters
Turning a story about invented viruses into a story about AI obscures the main point
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News Update/Commentary
For 15,000 years, humans and dogs have been changing each other
August 10, 2026 Science Daily
Dogs have been shaping -- and being shaped by -- humans for about 15,000 years, evolving from early partners of hunter-gatherers into an astonishing range of specialized companions.
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Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions
August 10, 2026 New Scientist
A salt-loving microorganism found in places like the Dead Sea can not just survive but actively grow in conditions close to those that may be found just under the Martian surface
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Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower
August 10, 2026 Science Daily
The rise of the potato in the Andes appears to have left a lasting mark on human DNA. Indigenous Peruvians carry exceptionally high numbers of a starch-digestion gene
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A troubled history of the reinforcement syndrome
August 10, 2026 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-deception and Human Frailty by Walter Gratzer (Oxford University Press, 2000) | See Also Amazon
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Outlandish Publication Fees Are Hindering Scientific Research
August 10, 2026 Real Clear Science
Ordinary competitive pressure can push behavior in the wrong direction, because the system can reward volume and output at the expense of accuracy and care.
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Time to Celebrate Breastfeeding
August 10, 2026 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Complex processes are involved in breastfeeding in mammals. Human breastmilk serves as a natural protector for baby’s immune system
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On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design
August 10, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Time flies! It’s hard to believe that it was 30 years ago that Darwin’s Black Box was published and the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) was founded.
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Lowly Spider Inspires Amazing 3D Camera
August 10, 2026 Institute for Creation Research
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Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On
August 9, 2026 Science & Culture Today
A Seminal Contribution to Biology
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Deceptions from Eden to AI
August 9, 2026 Mind Matters
Always be cautious and independently do your own research when obtaining information from AI
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What happens to your brain and mind under anesthesia?
August 9, 2026 Mind Matters
So far, scientists have learned that, generally speaking, anesthetic drugs render people unconscious by altering how parts of the brain communicate. But they still don’t fully understand why.
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60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind
August 9, 2026 Science Daily
Researchers found recurring grids, parallel lines, right angles, and repeated shapes, suggesting the designs followed deliberate rules rather than being improvised.
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What if the Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness?
August 9, 2026 Science Alert
Scientist Proposes It Might Be the Fabric of Reality Itself
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Universal DNA Code: Good Scientific Evidence for Evolution?
August 8, 2026 Examining Origins
why does a scientific theory rely on religious arguments for its support? These religious ideas are often hidden under scientific-sounding words
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Where Do Numbers Actually Exist?
August 8, 2026 Discovery Science
the fundamental rift between theistic and materialistic worldviews regarding the origin of life and human consciousness
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Is Life Fundamentally Computational?
August 8, 2026 Closer to Truth
life is computational at its core ... suggesting this makes the emergence of life a statistical inevitability wherever the conditions are right
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Cave Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared Culture
August 8, 2026 Sci Tech Daily
Modern humans and Neanderthals may have shared more than land and genes. They may have also shared culture.
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Epigenetics and the Arts Lover
August 7, 2026 Science & Culture Today
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The Intelligent Design of Sleep
August 7, 2026 ID the Future
Why is sleep so crucial to survival? And how did the processes of sleep emerge in living things? Could a gradual Darwinian process be responsible, or are the systems involved another instance of intelligent design?
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The hidden rule behind all evolution
August 7, 2026 The Royal Institution
Why are birds (the most diverse living dinosaurs) actually the slowest evolving dinosaurs of all?
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How Many Mutations Does It Take to Make a Whale?
August 7, 2026 Discovery Science
the immense biological and genetic shifts required for land mammals to transition into fully aquatic whales
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Is the Many-Worlds Interpretation Correct?
August 7, 2026 Closer to Truth
why the Many-Worlds interpretation has become increasingly attractive ... it applies quantum theory universally without introducing extra assumptions or wave function collapse
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How a Prof Learned the Hard Way to Put Science First
August 7, 2026 Mind Matters
The replication crisis forced him to grapple with the fact that he was too committed to ideology to assess truth
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Do Biblical Presuppositions Make Creation Science Unscientific?
August 7, 2026 Answers in Genesis
“I don’t mean to dismiss the religious beliefs of Christians. I do, however, when they’re attacking the evolutionary theory. It’s anti-intellectual. It’s anti-science. It’s anti-thinking.”
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Memories of Darwin’s Black Box
August 7, 2026 Science & Culture Today
Behe’s Breakthrough
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Quantum mechanics rules out a final theory of the universe
August 7, 2026 Institute of Art and Ideas
The idea of the universe as a whole doesn’t make sense
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Want the Public to Trust Science Again?
August 6, 2026 Science & Culture Today
In Four Lessons, Here’s How Not to Do It
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Super-Earths May Be Solid Deep Inside Their Mantles
August 6, 2026 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
New estimates show that a mineral likely common in these rocky planets’ interiors is resistant to melting, even at high temperatures.
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The Fermi Paradox Just Got Much Worse
August 6, 2026
One popular answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop artificial intelligence and simply lose interest in space travel.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Fossil evidence favors a role for vision in the modular evolution of the primate neocortex
August 6, 2026 Science, v.393, n.6811, p.622-627
Expansion of the neocortex is a key differentiator of the primate brain relative to other mammals.