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• Students Learn Better When They Write Out Notes in Longhand

  December 6, 2024 Nancy Pearcey Mind Matters

  According to a research study, laptop and tablet users tended to transcribe the lectures rather than absorb key points.

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  Fake “Science vs Religion" History

  December 6, 2024 David Hutchings and James Ungureanu YouTube

  how this widespread “Conflict Thesis” misinformation began (including a deep dive into understanding its authors, John William Draper & Andrew Dickson White), and how to counter it with a more accurate and nuanced historical approach

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  Life Began Much Faster Than We Thought

  December 6, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  evidence that the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) was much more complex than previously thought, which is puzzling because it didn’t have a lot of time to evolve. This seems to suggest that life can come into being much faster than we thought.

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  What It Means When the Media Says, “Trust the Science"

  December 6, 2024 James Tour YouTube

  Science & Faith

• News Update/Commentary

  Close encounters between distant DNA regions cause bursts of gene activity

  December 6, 2024 Kyushu University Science Daily

  Researchers inch closer to understanding how close spatial proximity between regions of DNA promotes and stabilizes transcriptional bursts

• Are Ediacaran “Fishing Hooks” a Breakthrough Discovery of Precambrian Animals?

  December 6, 2024 Günter Bechly Evolution News & Science Today

  Fossil Friday

• Spotting the Scars of Spacetime

  December 5, 2024 Ryan Wilkinson Physics, v.17, s152

  Scientists have devised a way to use current gravitational-wave detectors to observe permanent deformations of spacetime caused by certain supernovae.

• Elusive Stem Cell Population Finally Identified in Sea Anemones

  December 5, 2024 Claudia Lopez-Lloreda The Scientist

  The presence of a previously unidentified population of stem cells in sea anemones suggests that these cells may have been present in a common cnidarian ancestor.

• How did Humans Adapt to Digest Starchy Foods?

  December 5, 2024 Hannah Thomasy The Scientist

  Researchers uncover the surprisingly complex evolutionary history of the salivary protein amylase.

• Cosmology Is at a Crossroads, But New Instruments are Coming to Help

  December 5, 2024 Brian Koberlein Universe Today

• Bird Brain Evolution?

  December 5, 2024 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• On the origins of organisms

  December 5, 2024 Antonio Lazcano Science, v.386, n.6726, p.1098-1099

  The heterotrophic theory of the origin of life turns 100

• Scopes monkey trial, in context

  December 5, 2024 Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis Science, v.386, n.6726, p.1100

  A writer reexamines the 20th-century showdown between science and religion

• The Promise of Artificial General Intelligence Is Evaporating

  December 5, 2024 Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith Mind Matters

  Revenue from corporate adoption of AI continues to disappoint and, so far, pales in comparison to the revenue that sustained the dot-com bubble -- until it didn’t

• Video

  Do Ancient Shorelines Reveal the True Origin of the Grand Canyon?

  December 5, 2024 Steve Austin YouTube

  evidence not only that a lake was present, but also that it was of sufficient size to hold enough water to carve the Grand Canyon by drainage spillover

• Video

  This Theory of Everything Actually Makes a Prediction

  December 5, 2024 Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube

  New Physics in Black Holes

• News Update/Commentary

  Historic outbreaks of coffee wilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus

  December 5, 2024 Public Library of Science Science Daily

  Genomic analysis showed the fungal pathogen received virulence genes from a related species

• News Update/Commentary

  Chimpanzees perform the same complex behaviors that have brought humans success

  December 5, 2024 University of Oxford Science Daily

  A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ago.

• News Update/Commentary

  That's no straw: Hummingbirds evolved surprisingly flexible bills to help them drink nectar

  December 5, 2024 University of Washington Science Daily

  While drinking, a hummingbird rapidly opens and shuts different parts of its bill simultaneously, engaging in an intricate and highly coordinated dance with its tongue to draw up nectar at lightning speeds.

• News Update/Commentary

  From one gene switch, many possible outcomes

  December 5, 2024 University of Pennsylvania Science Daily

  how subtle changes in a lipid-binding region called the START domain can dramatically alter gene regulation, paving the way for advancements in crop engineering, synthetic biology, and precision gene therapies

• Crazy Darwinism Needs Shaming

  December 5, 2024 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Censorship of Darwin skeptics has given license for absurd speculations

• Biological Information in Static Electricity

  December 5, 2024 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term

  December 4, 2024 Mark Greaves University College London

  Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth’s climate, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

• Liquid on Mars was not necessarily all water

  December 4, 2024 Nancy Wolfe Kotary MIT Haystack Observatory

  New study proposes that some of the minerals seen on Mars today may have formed in liquid CO2 instead of water.

• Neanderthals Used a “High Tech" Method for Making Glue

  December 4, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  High tech for the times they lived in, that is. They had to figure out why the lower tech method got poor results and develop a more sophisticated one

• The heart has its own ‘brain’

  December 4, 2024 Karolinska Institutet

  a mini-brain -- its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat

• Toddler bones show mammoths were the main food of the first Americans

  December 4, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  The bones of a child who died nearly 13,000 years ago suggest that the people who moved from Asia into North America at this time ate a lot of mammoth

• Human brain evolution may stem from the gut

  December 4, 2024 Velentina Boulter Cosmos Magazine

  gut microbes from different animals can shape their biology and evolution

• How B-mesons are threatening to break the Standard Model

  December 4, 2024 Ethan Siegel Big Think

  We have very specific predictions for how particles ought to decay. When we look at B-mesons all together, something vital doesn’t add up.

• Researchers Discover How Starfish Cut Ties with Their Limbs

  December 4, 2024 Sneha Khedkar The Scientist

  A neuropeptide helps starfish shed their arms to escape predators, providing clues about the mechanisms regulating self-amputation.

• Masculinity and Social Darwinism

  December 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today

  New Course with Nancy Pearcey

• Sick animals suggest COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market

  December 4, 2024 Smriti Mallapaty Nature

  A preliminary analysis takes a closer look at genomic data collected at the market.

• The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

  December 4, 2024 Kevin Lala New Scientist

  Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species -- including humans -- a supercharged ability to evolve

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Mammoth featured heavily in Western Clovis diet

  December 4, 2024 James C. Chatters, et al. Science Advances, v.10, n.49

  Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Supporting data are typically indirect (toolkits, associated fauna) or speculative (models, actualistic experiments).

• News Update/Commentary

  Manta rays inspire fast swimming soft robot yet

  December 4, 2024 North Carolina State University Science Daily

  A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot's movement in the water.

• Time to Unlearn the Evolutionary March of Human Progress

  December 4, 2024 Jerry Bergman Creation-Evolution Headlines

  New discovery adds more evidence against the human evolution progression

• Shawn Otto and the “War on Science”

  December 4, 2024 Robert Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today

• At SciAm: When Did Human Ancestors Start Using Stone Tools?

  December 3, 2024 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Setting aside the question of whether the various groups mentioned in the article are in fact our ancestors, stone tool use is not even confined to primates

• Can “Century Cells" Help Us Understand Old Age Ills?

  December 3, 2024 Mind Matters

  At Nature, Smriti Mallapaty reports a study on a bank of cells from people who have lived to be more than 100 years old, which provides a chance to study human longevity.

• Public trust in science can be diminished by communicating uncertainty

  December 3, 2024 Hannah Little Nature

  Science communication must be transparent and avoid over-hyping findings. But whether communicating uncertainty improves public trust in science is complex.

• These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024

  December 3, 2024 Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist

  We collected some of the wildest physics that New Scientist covered in 2024, findings that are forcing scientists -- and us -- to rethink reality

• DEI “studies” displace scientific research at the National Science Foundation

  December 3, 2024 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

• The mistake at the heart of the multiverse

  December 3, 2024 Philip Goff The Institute of Art and Ideas

  This phenomenon is not evidence for the multiverse

• A New Dogma of Molecular Biology: A Paradigm Shift

  December 3, 2024 William A. Haseltine Forbes

  Thomas Kuhn, in his groundbreaking book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, described a paradigm shift in science as a new understanding of nature

• How close is AI to human-level intelligence?

  December 3, 2024 Anil Ananthaswamy Nature

  Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.

• New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together

  December 3, 2024 Michael Le Page New Scientist

  Parts from dozens of different individual comb jellies have been fused together to create strange new animals unlike anything seen before

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  Why Donald Hoffman is Wrong

  December 3, 2024 Darwin's God YouTube

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  Undoing Darwin's Devious Designs

  December 3, 2024 Institute for Creation Research YouTube

  How can two rational, intelligent people look at the same piece of evidence and offer different explanations for their observations -- and not just different, but mutually exclusive. What causes this divide, and what can we do about it?

• Video

  How Did the Earth Change After Noah's Flood?

  December 3, 2024 Is Genesis History? YouTube

  Geomorphology is the study of how the earth's surface changes and the processes involved. Follow geologist Dr. John Whitmore and our host Dr. Del Tackett as they take us to Sheep Creek Canyon in Utah.

• News Update/Commentary

  Study in neurosurgery patients reveals numerical concepts are processed in ancient part of brain

  December 3, 2024 Oregon Health & Science University Science Daily

  Thinking about numbers activates area of brain tied to basic functions -- important insight for learning, neurological procedures