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Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding
April 21, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is the Moon There If No One Looks? or Is There No “There" There?
April 21, 2021 Mind Matters
Elementary particles do not need to be in a particular place until they are observed and then that's where they are
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DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists
April 21, 2021 Quanta Magazine
The bizarre genome of the world’s most mysterious flowering plants shows how far parasites will go in stealing, deleting and duplicating DNA.
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Book
The New Breed review: The case for treating robots as animals
April 21, 2021 New Scientist
As social robots edge into our lives, The New Breed by Kate Darling is a guide to how to think about them | See Also Amazon
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News Update/Commentary
Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction
April 21, 2021 Science Daily
Simplifying Our World
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News Update/Commentary
Creativity and community: How modern humans overcame the Neanderthals
April 21, 2021 Science Daily
Study identifies creativity genes that set Homo sapiens apart from close living and extinct relatives
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Science Writer Critiques the “Many Worlds” (Multiverse) Fantasy
April 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Cells Use Loop Extrusion to Keep DNA Optimized
April 21, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Claim: We Are Making Headway with the Origin of Life
April 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding
April 21, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Structural basis of assembly and torque transmission of the bacterial flagellar motor
April 20, 2021 Cell
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In Quantum Physics, “Reality" Really Is What We Choose to Observe
April 20, 2021 Mind Matters
Physicist Bruce Gordon argues that idealist philosophy is the best way to make sense of the puzzling world of quantum physics
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Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees
April 20, 2021 EurekAlert!
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Richard Dawkins Gets ‘Humanist of the Year' Award Taken Away Over Trans Comments
April 20, 2021 via The Guardian
The American Humanist Association board voted to strip Dawkins of his 1996 award over comments he made about transgender identity.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Inner Workings: Making headway with the mysteries of life’s origins
April 20, 2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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One Idea to Explain Dark Matter -- Ultralight Bosons -- Fails the Test
April 20, 2021 Universe Today
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The many worlds fantasy
April 20, 2021 iai News
The incoherence of science's strangest theory
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Human Sweat Glands Show Design
April 20, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Yet another difference found between humans and apes: Study attempts to document evolution, ends up supporting intelligent design
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News Update/Commentary
‘Dead clades walking': Fossil record provides new insights into mass extinctions
April 20, 2021 Science Daily
Groups of animals that survive an event but never fully recover are more common and long-lasting than expected
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News Update/Commentary
Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees
April 20, 2021 Science Daily
The fossil provides the oldest, most intact example of the shoulder of a human ancestor ever found. The bones provide telltale clues of how the individual moved and was adapted to climbing, a research team reports.
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American Humanist Association Underbusses Richard Dawkins
April 20, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Was T. rex a lone wolf or social eater?
April 19, 2021 Deseret News
New research at dig site offers surprising answer ... Rainbows & Unicorns site in southern Utah reveals sophisticated family units
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Neanderthals Were the Human Species Best Adapted to Cold. Here's Why
April 19, 2021 Real Clear Science
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Lucy, the Human Chimp review: The ape that was raised like a human
April 19, 2021 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Intellectual disability is rarely inherited -- risk for younger siblings is low
April 19, 2021 Science Daily
Intellectual disability is most often caused by changes to the genome that take place in early fetal development and are not found in the parents' DNA. This is why the risk of recurrence in the next sibling of the family is very small
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News Update/Commentary
Snake venom complexity is driven by prey diet
April 19, 2021 Science Daily
Diversity in diet plays a role in the complexity of venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths. But new collaborative research found the number of prey species a snake ate did not drive venom complexity.
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News Update/Commentary
What does the study of domesticated birds tell us about the evolution of human language?
April 19, 2021 Science Daily
Looking for keys of the human language evolution in bird singing
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Artificial Intelligence: Unseating the Inevitability Narrative
April 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dinosaurs and More: Bechly on the Fossil Record vs. Neo-Darwinism
April 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum
April 19, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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“It’s Amazing How Clear Cut the Change from ‘No Dinosaurs’ to ‘All Dinosaurs’ Was”
April 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
from a research paper
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Indian Jumping Ants Can Shrink and Regrow Their Brains
April 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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String Theory Skeptic Peter Woit Reflects on Stephen Hawking
April 19, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs like wolves, new research has found
April 19, 2021 The Guardian
Paleontologists say a mass grave in Utah shows the dinosaurs may not have always been solitary predators as previously thought
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How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance
April 18, 2021 Mind Matters
There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will
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Why the Universe Itself Can't Be the Most Fundamental Thing
April 18, 2021 Mind Matters
Atheist biology professor Jerry Coyne is mistaken in dismissing my observation that proofs of God’s existence follow the same logical structure as any other scientific theory
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The Incredible Shrinking and Growing Brains of Indian Jumping Ants
April 18, 2021 NPR
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Why Were Ice Age Animals So Big?
April 18, 2021 Answers in Genesis
Big critters like the giant sloth and woolly mammoth dominated during the Ice Age. What made their size useful? What do the fossils tell us? What happened to them?
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Spiders May Not Know It But They Are Making Music
April 17, 2021 Mind Matters
An MIT researcher has developed an algorithm that translates the delicate vibrations of spider webs into music
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The Three Myths of Scientism
April 17, 2021 Real Clear Science
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Memory, the brain, and the soul
April 17, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Cyanobacteria Were an Important Part of Marine Ecosystems 1400 Million Years Ago
April 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Philosopher Mary Midgeley (1919–2018) on Scientism
April 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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If Photosynthesis Could Really Be As Old As Life Itself…
April 17, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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SETI Director Warns: Those Aliens Could Be Malevolent
April 17, 2021 Mind Matters
Harvard astronomer agrees: We’ve sent a lot of signals in recent years; they may have got them. But now what?
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Book
Review of Erik Larson’s The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
April 17, 2021
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Why Did a Prominent Science Writer Come to Doubt the AI Takeover
April 16, 2021 Mind Matters
John Horgan’s endorsement of Erik J. Larson’s new book critiquing AI claims stems from considerable experience covering the industry for science publications
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A Physicist and Philosopher Examines Panpsychism
April 16, 2021 Mind Matters
Idealism says everything is an idea in the mind of God. Panpsychism says everything participates in consciousness (thus is not just an idea)
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Absolute abundance and preservation rate of Tyrannosaurus rex
April 16, 2021 Science, v.372, n.6539, p.284-287
Estimating the abundance of a species is a common practice for extant species and can reveal many aspects of its ecology, evolution, and threat level. Estimating abundance for species that are extinct, especially those long extinct, is much trickier
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Who Decides What Is Misinformation About Science?
April 16, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Can scientists recognize their own fallibility? Must they portray themselves as judges over the public?