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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
February 14, 2024 New York Times
About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted.
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Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons
February 14, 2024 New Scientist
Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead
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The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed
February 14, 2024 New Scientist
Altermagnets, theorised to exist but never before seen, have been measured for the first time and they could help us make new types of magnetic computers
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Hall of Mirrors: The Many Ways Consciousness Baffles Researchers
February 14, 2024 Mind Matters
Does consciousness have a seat at the table? Wait a minute. Isn’t consciousness the table? Or is it?
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Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
February 14, 2024 Nature
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.
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Rampant Fraud in Science Grows
February 14, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The epidemic of fraud in science hits an all-time high
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Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”
February 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rescuing Chance for Darwinism
February 14, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Mendel’s randomness
February 13, 2024 University College London
from allowing complex life to facilitating causal inference
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Updates to the Second Law from Quantum Thermodynamics
February 13, 2024 Foundations of Physics @ Harvard
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Are non-protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?
February 13, 2024 BioEssays
An attempt to explain and reconcile opposing viewpoints of whether the human genome is mostly transcribed into non-functional or functional RNAs
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The incredible shrinking human genome
February 13, 2024 YouTube
The nature of the genome has consistently surprised people, but mostly because they applied Darwinian concepts to it. Instead, the genome is a wonderful testimony to the engineering prowess of God, who built something unexpected.
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Geologic evidence that volcanic lightning promotes life on Earth
February 13, 2024 Physics Today
Large quantities of fixed nitrogen found in ash and pyroclastic deposits confirm suspicions about a likely source of life’s earliest building blocks.
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Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
February 13, 2024 YouTube
Explore evolution -- its scope and depth. How did life on Earth come to be as it is, and how did humans come to be as we are? What are the deep principles driving evolution? What are evolution’s challenges and open questions?
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Book Banning Today: Silently ... Not Like in the Old Days
February 13, 2024 Mind Matters
Traditional anti-book banning groups are simply not where the action is and maybe don’t want to be
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How Neuroscience Disproved Free Will and Then Proved It Again
February 13, 2024 Mind Matters
In this excerpt from Minding the Brain (2023), neuroscientist Cristi L. S. Cooper discusses the discovery of “free won’t” -- the decision NOT to do something
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Cosmic Dust Could Spread Life from World to World Across the Galaxy
February 13, 2024 Universe Today
Does life appear independently on different planets in the galaxy? Or does it spread from world to world? Or does it do both? New research shows how life could spread via a basic, simple pathway: cosmic dust.
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Scientists Discover Water on Asteroids for First Time
February 13, 2024 Space Chatter Wire
Cosmos History Made!
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Great apes playfully tease each other
February 13, 2024 Science Daily
Like joking behavior in humans, ape teasing is provocative, persistent, and includes elements of surprise and play. It is likely that the prerequisites for humor evolved in the human lineage at least 13 million years ago.
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More Original Molecules Found in “Old” Fossils
February 13, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists astonished: original color molecules from snails still present after 12 million Darwin Years
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Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?
February 13, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Your Mind Bigger Than the Universe? Well, Look at It This Way ...
February 12, 2024 Mind Matters
Surprisingly, there is a way to measure the mind that shows it IS bigger than the universe -- information
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Will Deepfakes Be Used To “Show" Us That Computers Can Now Think?
February 12, 2024 Mind Matters
As the deepfake technology advances, William Dembski wonders whether some AI zealots might try to “fake it till they make it,” Theranos-style
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Surprise Discovery Shows Blue Whales Have Been Mating with Another Species
February 12, 2024 Science Alert
New research suggests interspecies hanky panky between blue and fin whales is more common than we thought, at least in certain parts of the world.
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Darwin's Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished
February, 2024 Discovery Institute Press
Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he never completed. It was his sequel to The Origin of Species. | See Also Amazon
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Slaphappy Darwin Day
February 12, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin’s 215th birthday is celebrated with giddy worship lubricated with copious libations of Darwine
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Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff
February 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
For Darwin Day
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Mindscape Ask Me Anything
February 12, 2024 YouTube
We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good
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New physics theory: Singularities could be everywhere
February 12, 2024 YouTube
Ok, I have seen a lot of weird ideas for what dark matter could be, but this one surprised even me. A team of researchers proposes that the universe might be filled with singularities, and those could make up what we call dark matter.
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What is Consciousness?
February 12, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers.
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China conducts first nationwide review of retractions and research misconduct
February 12, 2024 Nature
Universities must declare all their retractions and launch investigations into misconduct cases; a Nature analysis reveals that since 2021 there have been more than 17,000 retractions with Chinese co-authors.
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A new look at our linguistic roots
February 12, 2024 knowable magazine
Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first speakers led. A controversial new analytic technique offers a fresh answer.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers
February 12, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Locomotor ability is dependent on the structures through which movement is produced -- in the case of avian flight, the most physically demanding form of vertebrate locomotion, flight ability is reflected in the structure of the feathered wing surface
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Yet another misguided attempt to revise evolution
February 12, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
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Why insects navigate more efficiently than robots
February 12, 2024 Science Daily
Engineers have studied how insects navigate, for the purpose of developing energy-efficient robots.
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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned -- and how to test it
February 12, 2024 New Scientist
String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it thanks to ancient particles called moduli, which might appear in astronomical observations, says theorist Joseph Conlon
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The hidden rule for flight feathers -- and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly
February 12, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common.
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Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
February 12, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Slowed Down Light by 10,000 Times in an Experiment
February 11, 2024 Science Alert
Scientists have previously established that light can be slowed down in certain scenarios, and a new study demonstrates a method for achieving it that promises to be one of the most useful approaches yet.
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Belief in the Soul Is Found in Every Time and Place
February 11, 2024 Mind Matters
Substance dualism holds clearly that the soul and the body are two different types of entities
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Are the New Atheists Losing Their “Cool" Quotient?
February 11, 2024 Mind Matters
And taking Darwinism with them? A look at what’s happened in the last two decades would seem to suggest that
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Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time
February 11, 2024 The Guardian
300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s library
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Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language
February 11, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
-- Answered!
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Fragments of Asteroid with Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin
February 10, 2024 New York Times
Astronomers tracked the entry of a small space rock into Earth’s atmosphere, and then meteorite hunters made an unexpected discovery.
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All Aboard the James Tour Damage Control Train!
February 9, 2024 YouTube
James was not happy with how badly he was humiliated by his intellectual superiors at Harvard, so he is back at it with some damage control!
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Exploring God’s Intelligent Design of Viruses
February 9, 2024 YouTube
Reasons to Believe -- While we will never understand God’s complete purpose with the introduction of viruses into our world, it is apparent that God is at work through the spread of viruses throughout all living things.
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Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlier than we thought
February 9, 2024 New Scientist
Our hominin ancestors originated in Africa and the consensus is that they didn't leave there until about 1.8 million years ago, but stone tools found in Jordan challenge the idea
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Surprisingly vibrant color of 12-million-year-old snail shells
February 9, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers provide world's first evidence of intact polyene pigments in fossils
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Deep Fakes and Propaganda for Artificial General Intelligence
February 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship
February 9, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday