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The War on 2 + 2 = 4
April 5, 2024 substrack
If you can lie about mathematical truths, what can't you lie about?
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Tatooine, Trisolaris, Thessia: Sci-Fi Exoplanets Reflect Real-Life Discoveries
April 5, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
After astronomers discovered exoplanets wildly different from Earth, exoplanets in science fiction became less Earth-like, too.
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Model of ever-expanding universe confirmed by dark energy probe
April 4, 2024 Science
First results from robotic instrument match expectations for how cosmos has evolved over past 11 billion years
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The Connection Between Intelligence and Information
April 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?
April 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The best clues to life on Mars could be in these Idaho fossils
April 4, 2024 Big Think
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
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A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong
April 4, 2024 New York Times
Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.
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News Update/Commentary
Finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
April 4, 2024 Science Daily
Research team discovers sophisticated processing of archaeological wood
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Design Without a Designer?
April 4, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
New Book Says Yes!
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Life's Building Blocks May Have Formed in the Cracks of Volcanoes
April 3, 2024 Newsweek
The flowing of molten rocks through small cracks in the heart of volcanoes may have been a perfect environment to forge the building blocks of life on Earth.
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News Update/Commentary
New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry
April 3, 2024 Science Daily
A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity
April 3, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.110-116
The emergence of biopolymer building blocks is a crucial step during the origins of life. However, all known formation pathways rely on rare pure feedstocks and demand successive purification and mixing steps to suppress unwanted side reactions
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Video
The Physics of Fine-Tuning
April 3, 2024 YouTube
before grand metaphysical schemes are advanced by philosophers, theologians, and even scientists, proper understanding of the underlying assumptions and fundamental physics are needed
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The Connection Between Intelligence and Information
April 3, 2024 substack
Information is everywhere in the sciences. And yet scientists often ignore the connection of intelligence to information. This brief post makes clear the connection.
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News Update/Commentary
Early dinosaurs grew up fast, but they weren't the only ones
April 3, 2024 Science Daily
High growth rates apparently a common feature among early Mesozoic animals
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News Update/Commentary
We've had bird evolution all wrong
April 3, 2024 Science Daily
Genomic anamolies dating back to the time of the dinosaurs misled scientists about the evolutionary history of birds.
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Artificial intelligence can provide accurate forecasts of extreme floods at global scale
April 3, 2024 Nature
Anthropogenic climate change is accelerating the hydrological cycle, causing an increase in the risk of flood-related disasters. A system that uses artificial intelligence allows the creation of reliable, global river flood forecasts
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The variation and evolution of complete human centromeres
April 3, 2024 Nature
Human centromeres have been traditionally very difficult to sequence and assemble owing to their repetitive nature and large size. As a result, patterns of human centromeric variation and models for their evolution and function remain incomplete
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Jurassic shuotheriids show earliest dental diversification of mammaliaforms
April 3, 2024 Nature
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Fossils document evolutionary changes of jaw joint to mammalian middle ear
April 3, 2024 Nature
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Tale of the Tail: Why the Human Coccyx Is Not a Vestigial Organ
April 3, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Tall tales about the loss of the human tail continue to mislead
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Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought
April 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Truth and Trust in Large Language Models
April 3, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock
April 3, 2024 New Scientist
Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of rocky fractures, which would have been common on the early Earth
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Dismantling Evolution One Gear at a Time!
April 2, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 70
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Is Natural Law Irreducible?
April 2, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rare wooden artifacts showcase the smarts of early Neanderthals
April 1, 2024 Science
Complex tools from 300,000-year-old deposit at Schöningen in Germany point to a “wood age”
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From Scientists and Science Media, a Flood of Disinformation
April 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Many Genes Do Humans Have?
April 1, 2024 The Scientist
Researchers disagree on the number of genes in the human genome, in part because what exactly a gene is can be difficult to determine.
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Truth and Trust in Large Language Models
April 1, 2024 substack
How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth.
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The most anti-science belief you can hold is that science is a religion
April 1, 2024 salon
A new theory wonders if all matter could be “conscious" -- before scientists hand-wave it, they should hear it out
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Aeon: “The Cell Is Not a Factory”
April 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
It’s Far More Complex
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes
April 1, 2024 Nature
Despite tremendous efforts in the past decades, relationships among main avian lineages remain heavily debated without a clear resolution. Discrepancies have been attributed to diversity of species sampled, phylogenetic method, etc.
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm
April 1, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient quarries in Israel reveal where Homo erectus hunted and butchered elephants
March 31, 2024 Live Science
Researchers suggest ancient quarry sites in Israel were favored because they were close to elephant migration routes.
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Do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence?
March 29, 2024 The Skeptic
The proclamation “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” was oft spoken by astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. He was not the first to express some version of the sentiment, but definitely popularised that particular phrase.
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Blog Post
Is “Information” Eternally Conserved?
March 29, 2024
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New documentary features scientists who risked challenging the ‘climate crisis’ narrative
March 29, 2024 Just the News
“Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth" interviews scientists who say, but challenging the dominant narrative on climate change, they've faced professional repercussions.
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New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution
March 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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“Creation Myths” Misquotes and Misrepresents Junk DNA Video
March 29, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Joe Lieberman, the Sabbath, and Intelligent Design
March 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation
March 28, 2024 CNN
It’s messing with time itself
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More Ignorance About Bird Flight Admitted
March 28, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Fifty years of speculation has offered no solution to how birds fly
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Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg
March 28, 2024 substack
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Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm
March 28, 2024 substack
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Scientists made a six-legged mouse embryo -- here’s why
March 28, 2024 Nature
A rodent with two extra limbs instead of genitals shows the crucial role of a gene pathway in determining the fate of a primordial structure.
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Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae
March 28, 2024 New Scientist
The light signature from GLASS-z12, one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen, suggests some of its stars have already exploded as supernovae
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Is Complexity an Argument Against Design?
March 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”
March 28, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
answering your submitted questions
March 27, 2024 YouTube