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Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution
August 19, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make
August 19, 2020 nautil.us
Black holes are cosmic dimmers.
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Science and Scientism in the Age of COVID-19: Wisdom from C. S. Lewis
August 19, 2020 YouTube
75 years ago, Lewis published his novel That Hideous Strength, which explored the dangers of government in the name of science. What relevance does Lewis's advice on the promise and perils of science-based public policy have in the age of COVID-19?
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The Firmament: What Did God Create on Day 2?
August 19, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Sarcopterygian fin ontogeny elucidates the origin of hands with digits
August 19, 2020 Science Advances, v.6, n.34
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Stuart Ritchie interview: A deep rot is turning science into fiction
August 19, 2020 New Scientist
The systems of science are perpetuating bias, hype, negligence and fraud -- and this means far too many findings are worthless, says psychologist Stuart Ritchie
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We are in the midst of rewriting our understanding of Neanderthals
August 19, 2020 New Scientist
Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes explains how modern techniques are helping us to better understand Neanderthals, as well as where we fit in to the family tree
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Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time
August 19, 2020 New Scientist
The latest atomic clocks are so staggeringly precise that they are going to redefine the second. The only question now is when
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Secret to dinosaurs’ huge size may be in unusually lightweight bones
August 19, 2020 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Understanding the inner workings of the human heart
August 19, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers used artificial intelligence and genetic analyses to examine the structure of the inner surface of the heart using 25,000 MRI scans.
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Arithmetic As Racism: A Teacher’s Reflections on the Progressive War on Math
August 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Claim: Solar System Might Once Have Had Two Companion Stars
August 19, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Bird skull evolution slowed after the extinction of the dinosaurs
August 18, 2020 Science Daily
A detailed analysis of skull morphology shows non-avian dinosaurs evolved more rapidly than birds
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How Physics Erases the Beginning of the Universe
August 18, 2020 Forbes
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Darwinism Is in Tension with Human Rights
August 18, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Human rights and Darwinism are contradictions in terms, but academics find ways to pretend both are simpatico.
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In What Ways Are Cats Intelligent?
August 18, 2020 Mind Matters
Cats have nearly twice as many neurons as dogs and a bigger and more complex cerebral cortex
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The “Morality Pill" Hormone Does Not Make People “Nicer"
August 18, 2020 Mind Matters
After an initial buzz as a “love hormone” we should all be dosed with, oxytocin started to reveal a big down side
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Termite-fishing chimpanzees provide clues to the evolution of technology
August 18, 2020 University of Miami
PHOTO: A juvenile male chimpanzee followed in the 15-year study fishes for termites from an above-ground nest.
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Tour, Meyer: The Mystery of Life Itself
August 18, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Dembski's Explanatory Filter the Most Widely Used Theory Ever?
August 17, 2020 Mind Matters
It turns out that legions of critics of the Filter use it all the time, without noticing
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Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality
August 17, 2020 Science
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This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
August 17, 2020 Scientific American
A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality
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News Update/Commentary
Penguins are Aussies: Or are they Kiwis?
August 17, 2020 Science Daily
First genome comparison gives insight into penguin origins, evolution
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Is Information Really the Fifth State of Matter?
August 17, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A University of Arizona Prof Works Hard To Make Darwinism Coincide with the History of Life
August 17, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Maxwell’s Angel: God and the Physics of Design in Life's Molecular Machines | Paul D. Ashby
August 17, 2020 YouTube
The phenomenal efficiency of molecular machines doing the work of cellular function has captured the imagination of scientists from earliest times that our most powerful microscopes could explain them.
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A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring
August 17, 2020 Wired
Network neuroscience could revolutionize how we understand the brain -- and change our approach to neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident
August 17, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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That Hideous Strength -- C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75
August 16, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Recent Paper: The Problem of Biological Form Remains Unsolved
August 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins on Free Will
August 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Paper: Modeling Biology on Physics Doesn’t Really Work
August 16, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why Do We Fear Spiders More Than Bees?
August 15, 2020 Mind Matters
It’s a peculiarity of human psychology that science fiction writers have exploited
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Fabulous fossil preserves eyes of 429-million-year-old trilobite
August 15, 2020 ars technica
Cellular structure of compound eye preserved in beautiful detail.
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More on Male vs. Female Body Form and Darwinian Sexual Selection
August 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Humans 200,000 Years Ago Made Beds of Ash and Grass
August 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A One-Paper-Size Look at What’s Wrong with Theoretical Physics Today
August 15, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Is Ray Kurzweil's Singularity Nearer or Still Impossible?
August 14, 2020 Mind Matters
AI might help us unlock our potential, a panel concludes, but it won’t take over
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News Update/Commentary
Hypothesis underlying the sensitivity of mammalian auditory system overturned
August 14, 2020 Science Daily
A new study challenges a decades-old hypothesis on adaptation, a key feature in how sensory cells of the inner ear (hair cells) detect sound.
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News Update/Commentary
Traces of ancient life tell story of early diversity in marine ecosystems
August 14, 2020 Science Daily
If you could dive down to the ocean floor nearly 540 million years ago, you would find an explosion of life -- scores of worm-like animals and other sea creatures tunneling complex holes and structures in the mud and sand
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“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance
August 14, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Trilobites at 429 Mya Had Eyes Like Bees
August 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Early Hominins (480,000 Years Ago) Were -- Wait for It! -- More Sophisticated Than Thought
August 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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2017 Paper Hoped To Heal the Rifts/Paper Over the Cracks in Evolutionary Biology
August 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Traces of ancient life tell story of early diversity in marine ecosystems
August 14, 2020 phys.org
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In What Ways Are Spiders Intelligent?
August 13, 2020 Mind Matters
The ability to perform simple cognitive functions does not appear to depend on the vertebrate brain as such
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Why Consciousness Couldn't Just Evolve from the Mud
August 13, 2020 Mind Matters
Kastrup, a panpsychist, is sympathetic to the basic intuitions behind the idea that there is design in nature (intelligent design theory)
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‘Terror Crocodile’ the Size of a Bus Fed on Dinosaurs, Study Says
August 13, 2020 New York Times
The monster animal, more closely related to American alligators than modern crocodiles, had teeth the size of bananas and a strange enlarged snout.
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Everything Wrong with Modern Theoretical Physics in One Paper's Practical Summary
August 13, 2020 science2.0
There was once a time when theoretical physicists were prized because they were basically smarter than most people -- about one or two things.
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200,000 Years Ago, Humans Created Beds of Grass and Ash to Sleep
August 13, 2020 Inside Science
Ancient site suggests early humans controlled fire and used plants to ward off insects.