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SETI Scientists to Devise Plan for Lunar Listening Station
May 23, 2023 Supercluster
A few dozen SETI scientists would like to lay the foundation for what may become the most ambitious alien-hunting mission in history: a dedicated SETI observatory on the far side of the moon.
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A mental-health crisis is gripping science -- toxic research culture is to blame
May 23, 2023 Nature
With researchers reporting high rates of anxiety and depression, calls are growing to fundamentally change science before it’s too late.
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What marsupials can teach us about brain development
May 23, 2023 Science Daily
Research has revealed features of early human brain development are mimicked in the brains of marsupials.
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News Update/Commentary
Humans are unique but not exceptional species of mammal
May 23, 2023 Science Daily
Humans appear to resemble mammals that live in monogamous partnerships and to some extent, those classified as cooperative breeders, where breeding individuals have to rely on the help of others to raise their offspring.
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The laws of physics have not always been symmetric, which may explain why you exist
May 23, 2023 phys.org
For generations, physicists were sure the laws of physics were perfectly symmetric. Until they weren't.
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How Darwinism Is Made to Look Like Science
May 23, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A century-long strategy has allowed Darwinians to parasitize science, overcome its natural defenses, and establish storytelling as legitimate research
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How Professor Dave Botches Probability
May 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
“Well, Everyone Has to Have a Birthday”
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How to Tell Who Won the Tour-Farina Debate
May 23, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
A War of Words?
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No, you don't have a reptilian brain inside your brain
May 23, 2023 Science Norway
The myth of the reptilian brain is tenacious -- but wrong.
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The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism
May 23, 2023 Mind Matters
Philosopher J. P. Moreland is the co-author of an upcoming tome in defense of the soul
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Some black holes may actually be tangles in the fabric of space-time
May 22, 2023 space.com
A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called “topological solitons" -- kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes.
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Quantum Theory’s ‘Measurement Problem’ May Be a Poison Pill for Objective Reality
May 22, 2023 Scientific American
Solving a notorious quantum quandary could require abandoning some of science’s most cherished assumptions about the physical world
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The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all
May 22, 2023 Aeon
The idea that AI can be conscious is a mistake. It’s just a very shiny mirror of humanity, reflecting what we want to see
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Butterfly Evolution Hatches Magical Story
May 22, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Butterflies magically arise, fly around the world after surviving asteroid strike that killed dinosaurs.
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On the Origin of Life, James Tour Exposes Professor Dave as “Clueless”
May 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Where’s the Chemistry?
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Breaking Google Bard
May 22, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Dark Universe Comes Into Focus
May 22, 2023 Scientific American
The LIGO experiment opened a whole new window to the universe. We asked Rainer Weiss, one of LIGO’s lead architects, what gravitational-wave astronomy could reveal next
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Tweaking Just a Few Genes Transforms Scales Into Feathers
May 22, 2023 Science Alert
The feathers, fur, and scales that adorn different members of the animal kingdom may look quite different, but they're all made of the same basic stuff.
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Did Ichthyosaurs once walk on the land?
May 22, 2023 YouTube
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Solar System Symmetries
May 22, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Book
Is the biggest challenge to scientific thinking science itself?
May 22, 2023 Nature
REVIEW: Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science by Gary Smith (Oxford Univ. Press, 2023) | See Also Amazon
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Production method of the Königsaue birch tar documents cumulative culture in Neanderthals
May 22, 2023 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v.15
Birch tar is the oldest synthetic substance made by early humans. The earliest such artefacts are associated with Neanderthals.
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Blog Post
James Tour Debates David Farina (aka “Professor Dave”)
May 20, 2023
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Are we clueless about the origin of life?
May 20, 2023 Christianity
according to proponents of creationism and intelligent design
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How plate tectonics shook life into existence
May 20, 2023 Big Think
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth's crust.
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Science and the legal rights of nature
May 19, 2023 Science
Laws that establish legal rights for nature are being pursued in a growing number of countries to protect the environment. The success of these rights-of-nature laws can depend in large part on how scientific concepts and expertise have been used
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Time is an object
May 19, 2023 Aeon
Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories
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Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact
May 19, 2023 Science News
These changes could explain the intelligence and flexibility of shell-less cephalopods
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The myth of value-free science
May 19, 2023 iai News
What do scientists owe us?
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When do humans become conscious -- in the womb or after birth?
May 19, 2023 Big Think
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
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How to Write Imperfect Nonsense Using Evolution: Cheat
May 19, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionary theory, with its Stuff Happens Law, makes nonsense more probable than sense
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The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic
May 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism
May 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Coming Soon
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FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution
May 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
The 5 core principles of life
May 19, 2023 YouTube
Nobel Prize-winner Paul Nurse
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How Did The Universe Begin?
May 19, 2023 YouTube
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Blog Post
Breaking Google Bard
May 18, 2023
I’ve finally started playing around with Google Bard. With self-referential sentences, it seems even more at sea than ChatGPT. Here is an exchange from 5/18/23
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Does Iron Toast Union Rescue Long Ages?
May 18, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
On the one hand, biochemists perform decay rate studies that show biochemicals cannot last a million years in the best of conditions. On the other hand, paleontologists keep finding biochemicals in fossil bones deemed tens of millions of years old.
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Electron is perfectly spherical
May 18, 2023 Creation Ministries International
Real particle physics refutes big bang dogma
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New Animal Cell Organelle Discovered
May 18, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
As design becomes more complex, evolution becomes less likely
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Intelligent Design in Weather
May 18, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
The “Perfect Day” Conspiracy
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JWST spots biggest water plume yet spewing from a moon of Saturn
May 18, 2023 Nature
The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously known.
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Humans were making fires at least 250,000 years ago in Europe
May 18, 2023 phys.org
Early humans in Europe were making and controlling fire at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have found.
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Newly Discovered Exoplanet May Be Covered in Volcanoes
May 18, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine
Astronomers found an Earth-sized world that could have liquid water on its surface and may be able to support life
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We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK
May 18, 2023 ars technica
Solitude is not a curse -- it urges us to explore the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.
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A surprise new “theory of everything” involves the symmetry between order and disorder
May 18, 2023 Big Think
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
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Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
May 18, 2023 nautil.us
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
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Once again, ideology distorts science
May 18, 2023 Why Evolution Is True
the editor-in-chief of Scientific American flubs big time, wrongly asserting that sparrows have four sexes
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Scientists find oldest known evidence of humans in Europe using fires to cook
May 18, 2023 The Guardian
Prehistoric hearths found near Madrid date back about 250,000 years, with nearby tools showing food traces
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Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power
May 18, 2023 Nature
Humans did not emerge from a single region of Africa, suggests a powerful modelling study. Rather, our ancestors moved and intermingled for millennia.