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Yes, Our Brains -- Like Computers -- Have a Low-Power Mode
June 17, 2022 Mind Matters
Sure they do. It makes a lot of sense to conserve power when food supplies are low
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Reviving the Relational View of Mathematics
June 17, 2022 Mind Matters
Unfortunately, some textbooks teach number rules rather than relationships, so students may not know why the rule matters
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How can we prevent AI from being racist, sexist and offensive?
June 17, 2022 New Scientist
Artificial intelligences continue to exhibit the same biases and prejudices as humans because they are trained on what we create, but there are ways we can improve the situation
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A ‘Very Exciting' Anomaly Detected in Major Experiment Could Be Huge News for Physics
June 17, 2022 Science Alert
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Where Was the Garden of Eden?
June 17, 2022 Reasons to Believe
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Mars Meteorite Shakes Up Stories of Solar System Formation
June 17, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A long-held assumption about isotope ratios contradicts prevailing views about planet formation
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Why Christians Should Accept the Theory of Evolution
June 17, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
8-Extinctions: The (Maybe) Cambrian (Not Really) Explosion
June 17, 2022 American Geophysical Union
The Cambrian explosion is commonly labelled as the time in Earth’s history when animals suddenly appear. But research from geoscientist Rachel Wood and her team turns this explanation on its head.
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How Video Games Helped Researchers Unpack Real History
June 16, 2022 Mind Matters
Experts in ancient Egyptian life helped game developer Ubisoft create Origins in 2017 and Ubisoft wanted to return the favor
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How Nature Solved the Problem of Too Much DNA
June 16, 2022 McGill University
If sperm and egg carry the parents’ DNA, why is it that our babies don’t end up with twice as many genes?
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Video
The other end of a black hole
June 16, 2022 YouTube
What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Join James Beacham, particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, as he explores what happens when the fabric of reality -- physical or societal -- gets twisted beyond recognition.
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News Update/Commentary
100,000-year-old polar bear genome reveals ancient hybridization with brown bears
June 16, 2022 Science Daily
An analysis of ancient DNA from a 100,000-year-old polar bear has revealed that extensive hybridization between polar bears and brown bears occurred during the last warm interglacial period in the Pleistocene
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On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason
June 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Brain-Signal Proteins Evolved Before Animals Did
June 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”
June 16, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Martian Meteorite Upsets Planet Formation Theory
June 16, 2022 University of California, Davis
When our solar system formed, Mars formed earlier than Earth, and its composition gives clues about early steps in planet formation. A new UC Davis study overturns previous ideas about how rocky planets form.
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The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design
June 16, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
a guide to reading Jason Rosenhouse
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Did China just detect signals from an alien civilization?
June 15, 2022 space.com
Probably not, experts say.
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How long does evolution take? It happens on two different timescales
June 15, 2022 New Scientist
To make sense of the fact that adaptation can happen quickly and yet true evolutionary change seems to take forever, biologists suggest that evolution runs on two very different clocks
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800-year-old graves pinpoint where the Black Death began
June 15, 2022 Science
Ancient DNA from cemeteries in today’s Kyrgyzstan reveal earliest known victims of 14th century plague
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Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma
June 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Origin of Life from Basalt Lava Glass? Sorry, No
June 15, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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What is time? The mysterious essence of the fourth dimension
June 15, 2022 New Scientist
The nature of time is a tricky notion to pin down. But whether it is a fundamental part of our universe or just an illusion has huge implications
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How Organisms Know When to Stop Growing
June 15, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A common observation becomes a mystery when examined in detail.
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Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death
June 15, 2022 Nature
Genomes show that plague-causing bacteria found in Kyrgyzstan graves are direct ancestors of those that triggered the medieval pandemic.
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Chromatin First Evolved in Ancient Microbes 1-2 Billion Years Ago
June 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Gravitational Waves Continue To Astound
June 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient Pilbara rocks provide a glimpse into cradle of life on Earth
June 15, 2022 phys.org
How did life begin? The answer may lie in the hot springs of Western Australia's arid northwest.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia
June 15, 2022 Nature
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Google Dismisses Engineer's Claim That AI Really Talked to Him
June 14, 2022 Mind Matters
The reason LaMDA sounds so much like a person is that millions of persons’ conversations were used to construct the program’s responses.
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Happy the elephant is not a person, New York court rules
June 14, 2022 BBC
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Alien life may have already been replaced by ROBOTS, astronomer claims
June 14, 2022 Daily Mail (UK)
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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses
June 14, 2022 Quanta Magazine
Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.
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News Update/Commentary
No signs (yet) of life on Venus
June 14, 2022 Science Daily
The unusual behavior of sulphur in Venus' atmosphere cannot be explained by an ‘aerial' form of extra-terrestrial life, according to a new study.
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Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era
June 14, 2022 Nature
A laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 -- this year, the cultures will get a new custodian.
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Bacteria bred for 2000 generations settle long-term evolution mystery
June 14, 2022 New Scientist
A 2000-generation experiment with bacteria suggests existing variation makes a smaller contribution to evolution than we had thought
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Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?
June 14, 2022 New Scientist
An animal rights group says that an elephant in the Bronx Zoo in New York is so intelligent she should be granted legal personhood, but a court has now issued a ruling saying otherwise
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Eye Cornea Stuns Physiologists
June 14, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Cornea: More complex than assumed a few weeks ago ... As science progresses, evolution regresses
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Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”
June 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Zinc and the Miracle of Man
June 14, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Did Volcanic ‘Glasses’ Help Spark Early Life?
June 14, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Zinc and the Miracle of Man
June 14, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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2020 Genetics Society Haldane Lecture
June 14, 2022 Royal Institution
“Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?” -- Non-Darwinian routes to the evolution of life’s complexity.
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A sighting reveals extinction and climate change in a single image
June 14, 2022 National Public Radio
Alaska's Koyukuk River was the site of an interesting discovery. During a float down the river, a group of University of Virginia professors spotted a woolly mammoth tusk along the riverbank.
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AI: Is Thinking Humanly More Important Than Acting Rationally?
June 13, 2022 Mind Matters
I have documented many examples of GPT-3 AI’s failure to distinguish meaningful from meaningless correlations -- and invite readers to contribute their own
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A Mountain of Evidence? (Part 4)
June 13, 2022 Answers in Genesis
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Mastodon tusk chemical analysis reveals first evidence of one extinct animal's annual migration
June 13, 2022 phys.org
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The waiting time problem
June 13, 2022 Creation Ministries International
DNA carries the instructions for how and when to make the principal components of cells, called proteins. Different organisms differ in their DNA instructions
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Giraffe Neck Evolution?
June 13, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers discover mechanism linking mutations in the ‘dark matter' of the genome to cancer
June 13, 2022 Science Daily
Many sections of the non-coding region of the human genome play a key role in regulating gene activity. New research provides clues that may link mutations to epigenetic changes, and may point to potential drug targets to reduce risk