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• Walter Bradley Center Fellow Discovers Longstanding Flaw in Elementary Calculus

  April 10, 2019 Mind Matters

  The flaw doesn't lead directly to wrong answers but it does create confusion.

• Polar Bear Seminar: A Fake Scandal About a Chart

  April 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• Is Space Really “The Final Illusion”? Rob Sheldon Comments

  April 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• News Update/Commentary

  Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough

  April 10, 2019 Hannah Devlin The Guardian

  Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image

• New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

  April 10, 2019 Colin Barras New Scientist

• First ever real image of a black hole revealed

  April 10, 2019 Leah Crane New Scientist

• News Update/Commentary

  Genome analysis shows the combined effect of many genes on cognitive traits

  April 10, 2019 Springer Science Daily

  Individual differences in cognitive abilities in children and adolescents are partly reflected in variations in their DNA sequence, according to a new study.

• Why we can’t get over the death of the dinosaurs

  April 10, 2019 Nature, v.568, p.143

  Reports of a new-found snapshot of extinction highlights a mystery that scientists are still working to solve.

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution from water to land led to better parenting

  April 10, 2019 University of Bath Science Daily

  The evolution of aquatic creatures to start living on land made them into more attentive parents, says new research on frogs.

• News Update/Commentary

  How scientists took the first picture of a black hole

  April 10, 2019 Maria Temming Science News

  Scientists crunched data gathered by a global network of eight radio telescope observatories

• A New Study Challenges What We Know About Lightning Formation

  April 10, 2019 Marshall Shepherd Forbes

• Unknown human relative discovered in Philippine cave

  April 10, 2019 Nic Fleming Nature

  Bone fragments reveal a short-statured species -- which researchers have named Homo luzonensis -- that lived more than 50,000 years ago.

• Bird's Surprising Sound Source

  April 10, 2019 University of Utah

  The best place for a bird's voice box is low in the airway, researchers find.

• Monkeys Genetically Edited to Mimic Human Brain Development

  April 10, 2019 Chia-Yi Hou The Scientist

  Rhesus monkeys engineered to express a human gene reportedly show delayed brain development and better short-term memory. Fellow scientists are raising ethical red flags.

• Mars methane hunt comes up empty, flummoxing scientists

  April 10, 2019 Alexandra Witze Nature

  Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation.

• Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?

  April 10, 2019 Jordan Pennells Aeon

• New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree -- Again

  April 10, 2019 John Hawks Sapiens

  What does the discovery of Homo luzonensis mean for our understanding of humanity’s history?

• Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology

  April 10, 2019 Michael Egnor Evolution News & Science Today

• New Species of Human, Homo luzonensis, Identified in the Philippines

  April 10, 2019 Katarina Zimmer The Scientist

  Thirteen hominin bones found in a cave are so unique that archaeologists have determined they stem from a distinct hominin species, although others question whether the researchers have enough evidence.

• Black hole pictured for first time -- in spectacular detail

  April 10, 2019 Davide Castelvecchi Nature

  The Event Horizon Telescope’s global network of radio dishes has produced the first-ever direct image of a black hole and its event horizon.

• Examining Supposed Creation Passages in Ephesians to Revelation

  April 10, 2019 Danny R. Faulkner Answers in Genesis

  Listed from A Matter of Days by Hugh Ross, Part 7

• Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells

  April 9, 2019 Christie Wilcox Quanta Magazine

  New studies revise ideas about the symbiosis that gave mitochondria to cells and about whether the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes was one cell or many.

• Dances with Cells

  April 9, 2019 Brian Thomas Institute for Creation Research

• A realist takes on quantum mechanics

  April 9, 2019 Graham Farmelo Nature

  parsing Lee Smolin’s takedown of the most successful physics theory ever

• Study: Cats Do Recognize Their Names

  April 9, 2019 Denyse O'Leary Mind Matters

  Responses to the study, which attracted a good deal of attention, demonstrated many of the misconceptions that naturalism fosters.

• Are There Things About Human Beings That You Cannot Write Code For?

  April 9, 2019 Mind Matters

  WBC director Robert J. Marks asks that question, relating the Center’s goals to human aspirations

• Cambrian Explosion Excuses: Theme and Variations

  April 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• Human Brains Have Grown Smaller Since the Stone Age

  April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

  April 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• RNA Is No Longer “Worthless Junk”; Today’s Revelations “Unthinkable 20 Years Ago”

  April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Darwinian PZ Myers Blows Off Attack on Bret Weinstein

  April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Wesley J. Smith: Human Exceptionalism Is As Close to a Self-Evident Truth As One Can Find

  April 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Peruvian Walking Whale

  April 9, 2019 Troy Lacey Answers in Genesis

• News Update/Commentary

  Evolution imposes ‘speed limit' on recovery after mass extinctions

  April 8, 2019 University of Texas, Austin Science Daily

  It takes at least 10 million years for life to fully recover after a mass extinction, a speed limit for the recovery of species diversity that is well known among scientists.

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  At Long Last, a Glimpse of a Black Hole

  April 8, 2019 Priyamvada Natarajan New York Times

  This week scientists are expected to release images of the silhouette of this elusive and inscrutable astronomical object.

• Newspaper Article

  In Bubbles, She Sees a Mathematical Universe

  April 8, 2019 Siobhan Roberts New York Times

  For Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the Abel Prize for math, a whimsical phenomenon offers a window onto higher dimensions.

• The replication crisis is good for science

  April 8, 2019 Eric Loken The Conversation

• Blog Post

  The BBC unwisely jumps on the epigenetics bandwagon

  April 8, 2019 Jerry Coyne Why Evolution Is True

• The Growing Popularity of Intelligent Design

  April 8, 2019 Norm Fields LaGrange Daily News

• The Human Brain Has Been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age

  April 8, 2019 Bridget Alex Discover magazine

• Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human ‘Improvement'

  April 8, 2019 Wesley J. Smith Mind Matters

  Transhumanists don’t seem much interested in such real improvements in the human condition. They want quick, easy technological fixes

• I Spy AI. And AI Spies on Me ...

  April 8, 2019 Mind Matters

  The true threat posed by AI is the greatly reduced cost and risk of mass surveillance and manipulation

• Polar Bear Seminar: The APOB Gene and Damaging Mutations

  April 8, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today

• Is Standard Calculus Notation Wrong?

  April 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent

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  Questionable Categories of Human Ancestors: The Denisovans

  April 8, 2019 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  What happens when you derive a whole people group from a fingerbone? Confusion and every evil work.

• DNA As a “Master of Resource Recycling”

  April 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Researchers: Neanderthals Shared Genes with Woolly Mammoths

  April 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Struggling with Change in Evolutionary Biology

  April 8, 2019 Uncommon Descent

• God Help Us: Atheism Becomes Largest Religion in U.S.

  April 7, 2019 Michael J. Knowles The Daily Wire

  As religiosity has declined, social ills have abounded.

• Listen: Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Randomness in Natural Selection

  April 7, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today