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The Strongest Neuroscience Arguments in the Free Will Debate
February 7, 2024 Psychology Today
Can we choose the experiences that shape us, or are those choices determined?
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Winged Darwin: Pterosaur Diversity, But No Ancestor
February 7, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A lizard could not just take off like a bird. Flight specs are required!
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Human Origins and the Beginning of Art
February 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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What Is the Essence of Life?
February 7, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything
February 7, 2024 New Scientist
Physicists’ search for a theory that explains all reality in one framework appeared to have stalled. But now they are reinvigorating the hunt by exploring a wild landscape of abstract geometry
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Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trends
February 7, 2024 Nature
A new approach to detecting fraudulent paper-mill studies focuses on patterns of co-authors rather than manuscript text.
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News Update/Commentary
How the brain's internal compass guides the body
February 7, 2024 Science Daily
A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain's compass and steering regions make course corrections
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That’s No Moon; It’s an Ocean World
February 7, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
If Saturn’s cratered moon Mimas has liquid water beneath its surface, ocean worlds might be far more common in the solar system than we thought.
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When Is Transhumanism a Form of Technobigotry?
February 6, 2024 Mind Matters
In his further essays in the current series, he explains why AI cannot avoid collapse without the input of novel information from humans
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A Thoughtful Reader's Reaction to Next Gen AI Hype
February 6, 2024 Mind Matters
Recent hype at Wired Magazine about new personal assistant technology garnered a -- perhaps unexpected -- reaction
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Thinking Back to the Very Beginnings of Art
February 6, 2024 Mind Matters
It just appears, from great antiquity, and we really don’t know why. All we know is that animals don’t do it
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News Update/Commentary
Pinpointing changes to our genetic instructions that disrupt development
February 6, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers find a vulnerability within our genomes that can cause developmental defects such as extra fingers and heart disorders
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers discover key to molecular mystery of how plants respond to changing conditions
February 6, 2024 Science Daily
Research offers a new understanding of coordinated cellular response in plants
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The biggest questions about the Universe’s beginning
February 6, 2024 Big Think
The Universe didn't begin with a bang, but with an inflationary “whoosh" that came before. Here are the biggest questions that still remain.
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Novelty Activates a Long Noncoding RNA for Spatial Learning in Mice
February 6, 2024 The Scientist
Genes activated in new environments include those used during development.
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Homo habilis ‘Handy Man’ Getting Fired
February 6, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
More evolutionists admit major problems exist with this fossil and its interpretation
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Where Do All the Species Come From?
February 6, 2024 Answers in Genesis
What is speciation, and do creationists think it happens?
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The Oracle Problem
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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How population size shapes the evolution of guppy fish
February 6, 2024 Nature
A long-term fish experiment reveals how a mechanism called density dependence, in which the population growth rate slows as the number of individuals rises, affects population dynamics on time scales relevant for ecology and evolution.
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Were Neanderthals Religious?
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt -- and Ours -- to Intelligent Design
February 6, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Is 23andMe -- the Hot Gene Testing Startup -- Now Worthless?
February 5, 2024 Mind Matters
Birthed in Silicon Valley among high-tech go-getters, it should still be steaming along, right? But traditional bedrock business realities cursed it at its birth
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News Update/Commentary
A rare recent case of retrovirus integration
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
An infectious gibbon ape leukaemia virus is colonizing a rodent's genome in New Guinea
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery of moths' warning sound production explained
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed.
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News Update/Commentary
Smells like evolution: Fruit flies reveal surprises in chemical sensing
February 5, 2024 Science Daily
New study reveals how gene expression shapes the diverse smelling and tasting abilities of different fly species. Most genes are surprisingly stable, but thousands have evolved to create unique olfactory landscapes.
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It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
February 5, 2024 Nature
The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book. | See Also Pan MacMillan
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The Conserved Complexity of Eye Cell Types
February 5, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Animists in Modern Dress: Origin-of-Lifers
February 5, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The spirits of the molecules give rise to animated complex systems, goes the new false religion
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Darwinists Devolve
February 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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A nonadaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity
February 5, 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v.121, n.7
“Complex multicellularity,” conventionally defined as large organisms with many specialized cell types, has evolved five times independently in eukaryotes, but never within prokaryotes. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon
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JWST is most in-demand telescope ever -- leaving many astronomers in the cold
February 5, 2024 Nature
Reviewers will probably approve only one in every nine research proposals submitted in latest application cycle.
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Why Is Theology the Most Important Empirical Science?
February 4, 2024 Mind Matters
Arguing pro or con about the existence of God has resulted in many successful and/or widely accepted theories in science
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Blog Post
Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and “The Game of Life”
February 4, 2024
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How Earth Was Designed for Technological Advancement
February 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Dallas Conference
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Low-Effort Arguments in the Evolution Debate
February 4, 2024 Berean Archive
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Asked at Psychology Today: Were Neanderthals Religious?
February 4, 2024 Mind Matters
We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing
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Creation Dialogue -- Young or Old?
February 3, 2024 YouTube
Marcus Ross and Hugh Ross
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Philosopher Tweets on Consciousness -- and Gets Feedback
February 3, 2024 Mind Matters
Tulane U’s Kevin Morris tweeted that “the brain/ nervous system IS consciousness,” and started a broad discussion with many views represented
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When a Brilliant Man Has a Very Confused Perspective ...
February 3, 2024 Mind Matters
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb simply doesn’t seem to see that human beings are more valuable than advanced machines
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How a Militant Marxist (and Atheist) Found God
February 3, 2024 YouTube
Why would a militant communist, indoctrinated to hate Christians, become a follower of Jesus? What scientific evidence and personal experiences convinced him to radically change the direction of his life?
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Nanoparticles in Some of The World's Oldest Rocks Found to Hide Clues on Life's Origins
February 3, 2024 Science Alert
3.46-billion-year-old jasper beds from an outcrop in the Pilbara region of Australia.
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News Update/Commentary
Mechanism discovered that protects tissue after faulty gene expression
February 2, 2024 Science Daily
A study has identified a protein complex that is activated by defects in the spliceosome, the molecular scissors that process genetic information.
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Machines vs. Organisms
February 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Artificial General Intelligence
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Your appendix is not, in fact, useless
February 2, 2024 National Public Radio
This anatomy professor explains
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Cyber Plagiarism: When AI Systems Snatch Your Copyrighted Images
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
Outright copying of others’ images may put system’s owners in legal jeopardy. Let's look at U.S. legal decisions
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Human Intelligence Is Fundamentally Different from Machine Intelligence
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
Design theorist William Dembski discusses the problems we will encounter when we try to integrate the two when, say, sharing the road with self-driving cars
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Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions
February 2, 2024 Mind Matters
The research team hopes to improve care of livestock by establishing what they do and don’t feel about the way they are treated
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Rare ancient tree discovery has scientists ‘gobsmacked’
February 2, 2024 CNN
Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these ancient plant sentinels has been in short supply.
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New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals
February 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Book
To infinity and beyond
February 1, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6682, p.488
A physicist’s wild romp through the multiverse probes space-time, string theory, and everything in between | See Also Amazon