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What Are Introns For?
December 15, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The origin of introns is a mystery to evolutionists. They apply Darwin magic, calling it an “evolutionary burst.”
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Book
The model, the modeler, and the truth
December 15, 2022 Science
REVIEW: Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It by Erica Thompson (Basic Books, Dec 2022) | See Also Amazon
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Can a Dog Be Bred To Be As Smart As a Human?
December 15, 2022 Mind Matters
An enterprising electrical engineer thinks it can be done
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Evolution didn't make us human, culture did
December 15, 2022 iai News
How religion made us a successful species
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Not just light: Everything is a wave, including you
December 15, 2022 Big Think
A concept known as “wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter -- including you.
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Capabilities of Migrating Birds Deserve Awards and Recognition
December 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here
December 15, 2022 Live Science
A new paper claims that intelligent aliens would only be interested in contacting the most technologically advanced planets, and Earth doesn't make the cut.
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U.S. To Reveal Scientific Milestone on Fusion Energy
December 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Octopuses may link evolution of complex life to genetic ‘dark matter'
December 15, 2022 Science Daily
Findings suggest role of microRNAs in advanced brain development, including in humans
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A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related
December 14, 2022 New Scientist
Researchers unveiled a picture of humanity’s genealogy based on 3601 modern genomes and eight ancient genomes going back 2 million years
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JWST captured the most thrilling and inspiring space images of 2022
December 14, 2022 New Scientist
The launch of the much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope finally paid off in 2022, as the orbiting observatory delivered jaw-dropping pictures throughout the year
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Tonga volcano eruption was the most explosive of the 21st century
December 14, 2022 New Scientist
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga on 15 January 2022 created 90-metre high tsunamis and shot ash 57 kilometres into the sky
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A Miraculous Existence
December 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did the GPT3 Chatbot Pass the Lovelace Creativity Test?
December 14, 2022 Mind Matters
The Lovelace Test determines whether the computer can think creatively. We found out…
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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories from Perceptions
December 14, 2022 Quanta Magazine
The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New work shows how and why they are different.
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Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees
December 14, 2022 EurekAlert!
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Scientists discover a new supergroup of rare single-celled predators
December 14, 2022 ars technica
Rare microbes form two branches of a supergroup, a classification above kingdoms.
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Religion is not the factor that most influences rejection of evolutionary theory in schools
December 14, 2022 phys.org
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JWST gets first glimpse of 7-planet system with potentially habitable worlds
December 14, 2022 Nature
Astronomers have been eager for the landmark telescope to study the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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How Media and the Medical Establishment Suppressed COVID Heterodoxy
December 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx
December 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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A Science Writer Makes the Case for Plants As Conscious Beings
December 14, 2022 Mind Matters
Annaka Harris, neuroscience and physics writer, starts by casting doubt on human consciousness
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The evolutionary dynamics that retain long neutral genomic sequences in face of indel deletion bias
December 14, 2022 Open Biology (The Royal Society Publishing)
a model and its application to human introns
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New Theory Suggests That the Origin of Life on Earth-Like Planets Is Likely
December 14, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Long-term host-pathogen evolution of endogenous beta- and gamma-retroviruses in mouse lemurs with little evidence of recent retroviral introgression
December 14, 2022 Virus Evolution, v.9, n.1
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The best science images of 2022
December 13, 2022 Nature
An almighty eruption, the cosmos remastered, swirling cells and more.
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What Does It Mean to Align AI with Human Values?
December 13, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.
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What’s in a Genome? The Quest to Decipher Human Difference
December 13, 2022 UnDark
Racial categories are crude maps imposed on human biological variation. How do scientists square them with genetics?
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All-knowing machines are a fantasy
December 13, 2022 iai News
Beware the human-sounding ChatGPT
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Did Meat Do Neanderthals In?
December 13, 2022 Sapiens (Anthropology Magazine)
Studying zinc levels in unearthed Neanderthal skeletal remains, an archaeologist examines whether the carnivorous eating habits of Neanderthals in the Eurasian steppe contributed to their eventual extinction.
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Delighting in Design -- and in its Originator
December 13, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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DNA Does Not Explain Morphology
December 13, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How do you get from a linear code to a 3-dimensional, active body? A new book says nobody has found the answer.
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News Update/Commentary
Fish larvae find their way using external cues
December 13, 2022 Science Daily
The first global analysis of larval orientation studies found that millimeter-size fish babies consistently use external cues to find their way in the open ocean. There are many external cues available to marine fish
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Postscript: “Professor Dave” and His Attack on Me
December 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Joana Xavier, Skepticism About Design, and a Fable About a Gray Parrot with an iPad
December 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Jerry Coyne -- An Evolutionist and His Ideology
December 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Shaping the sport of kings: Key genes linked to successful racehorses identified by international team
December 13, 2022 Science Daily
These genes were found to be clearly different in racing horses, and were common to all racing breeds compared to those animals from non-racing breeds.
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In Defence of Scientific Integrity and Due Process
December 13, 2022 Quillette
I have known Klaus Fiedler for over forty years, and he is one of the most fair-minded and decent scientists I have ever met.
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The rise and fall of peer review
December 13, 2022 Experimental History
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives
December 12, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
Keating, Krauss, Tour
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Queen Mary University professor rejects evolution and promotes the New Testament in his inaugural lecture
December 12, 2022 Why Evolution Is True
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Model shows how intelligent-like behavior can emerge from non-living agents
December 12, 2022 Pennsylvania State University
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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape
December 12, 2022 New Scientist
Bush crickets from the Triassic era onwards evolved high-frequency songs to avoid being heard by predators
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News Update/Commentary
Meta-analysis reveals how crowds may change gene expression in some insects
December 12, 2022 Science Daily
Scientists investigate how genes in some insects can influence one another to change their expression depending on environmental conditions.
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How Google's LaMDA Resolved an Old Conflict in AI
December 12, 2022 Mind Matters
Will two conflicting views always be in opposition? Or can they sometimes be resolved at a higher level?
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Researchers: Profanity Has Some Elements of a Universal Language
December 12, 2022 Mind Matters
They found that, in a number of languages, profanity omits certain sounds and stresses others
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“Simple” Vision Is Too Much for Evolution
December 12, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The complexities of human visual consciousness exceed the capabilities of evolutionary processes
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“Crazy Stuff"? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem
December 12, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Our Ancestors Were Cooking Much Earlier Than Thought
December 11, 2022 Mind Matters
The more we learn about early humans, the more sophisticated we find their culture to be
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‘Like living mirrors’
December 11, 2022 The Guardian
what twins’ special bonds reveal about nature, nurture and genetics