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Why Are There So Many Humans?
June 9, 2020 Sapiens
The populations of the great apes were once nearly equal. Now, one great ape species -- Homo sapiens -- outnumbers the rest by almost 8 billion. How did we do it?
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From chaos to free will
June 9, 2020 Aeon
A crude understanding of physics sees determinism at work in the Universe. Luckily, molecular uncertainty ensures this isn’t so
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Book
Beware the illusion of certainty: it can be weaponized
June 9, 2020 Nature
What happens when facts face personal, political and commercial pressures? A book on the workings of science explores. | See Also The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science by Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng (MIT Press, 2020)
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Universe’s “First” Stars Are Missing?
June 9, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Evolution is the Fuel Behind Racism
June 9, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A brief history of Darwin-inspired racial prejudice
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The “Virus That Infected Philosophy”
June 9, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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An Antidote to Despair
June 9, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Our visual world of color is largely incorrect, study finds
June 8, 2020 Science Daily
Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive.
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Are viruses alive? Perhaps we’re asking the wrong question
June 8, 2020 The Conversation
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News Update/Commentary
Recycling old genes to get new traits -- How social behavior evolves in bees
June 8, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers learned from some unusual sweat bee species on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, how the sophisticated division of labor in highly complex insect societies can arise from humble beginnings.
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Nominalism: The Stubble Left by Ockham's Razor
June 8, 2020 Mind Matters
Ockham was a methodological minimalist, not a philosophical minimalist
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The Big COVID-19 Retraction: Top People Don’t Notice the Smell?
June 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Divinely Engineered Sinus Bacteria Essential for Health
June 8, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Evolution of Vascular Plants a Kaleidoscope, Not a Tree
June 8, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs
June 8, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why God Appears To Be a Mathematician
June 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Two Reasons Why Humans Have Souls Are Proposed
June 8, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Where the science went wrong
June 7, 2020 New Statesman
Sage minutes show that scientific caution, rather than a strategy of “herd immunity”, drove the UK’s slow response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Karsten Pultz on the Limits of Gradualism in Evolution
June 7, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why Brain Activity Doesn't Reveal Our Minds
June 6, 2020 Mind Matters
There is poor correlation between different scans of even the same person’s brain, experienced researchers say
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Questions arising from an old earth talk
June 6, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Responding to old-earther Eric Gustafson
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Paid Liars: Origin of Life Researchers
June 6, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What else do you call pseudo-scientists who know what they try to do is impossible, but tell the public they’re getting warmer?
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New Radiocarbon Dating May Shift Historical Ages
June 6, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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High-profile coronavirus retractions raise concerns about data oversight
June 5, 2020 Nature
Retracted studies had relied on health-record analyses from a company that declined to share its raw data for an audit.
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Philosopher: Sims Do Not Understand Simhood
June 5, 2020 Mind Matters
Richard Johns explains how you can know for sure that you are not a sim
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Physicists still lost in math
June 5, 2020 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Mathematics, Biology, and Awesome Wonder
June 5, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Petition: Rename Darwinian Ronald Fisher Lecture Due to His Support for Eugenics
June 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Contradiction at the Heart of Evolutionary Biology?
June 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Creationism Is EVERYWHERE You Look Now…
June 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine
June 4, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Right Re the Multiverse?
June 4, 2020 Mind Matters
Sheldon Cooper insists that in no universe would he dance with Penny
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Paleontologists Predict What Future Animals Might Look Like
June 4, 2020 Gizmodo
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Book
Book Review: The Genealogical Adam and Eve by S. Joshua Swamidass
June 4, 2020 Apologetics 315
The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry (InterVarsity Press, Dec 2019) | See Also Amazon
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Two Huge Covid-19 Studies Are Retracted After Scientists Sound Alarms
June 4, 2020 New York Times
The reports, published in two leading journals, were retracted after authors could not verify an enormous database of medical records.
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Blog Post
Is the Human Body a Bad Design?
June 4, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Nature’s cosmic hard drive? Black holes could store information like holograms
June 4, 2020 ars technica
Theoretical black holes are ideal toy models for thought experiments in quantum gravity.
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Triple Fail: Big Science Blunders
June 4, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Three strikes in one day: scientific theories and assumptions in unrelated fields have blundered big time. What are the lessons?
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Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”
June 4, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why Not To Trust “Science” Just Now: COVID-19 Edition
June 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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512 Million-Year-Old Parasite Found Still Stuck to Its Host
June 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why the universe I invented is right -- but still not the final answer
June 3, 2020 New Scientist
Nobel prizewinner introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos -- but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says.
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News Update/Commentary
New test of dark energy and expansion from cosmic structures
June 3, 2020 Science Daily
A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution of galaxies in the Universe provide the most precise tests of dark energy and cosmic expansion yet.
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Physicist: Gravity Refutes Free Will
June 3, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Confessions of a Liberal Darwinian Skeptic
June 3, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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How a Liberal Seminary Prof Started to See the Point of ID
June 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis
June 3, 2020 nautil.us
Is a third-act twist to nuclear energy at hand?
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Did life emerge in the ‘primordial soup' via DNA or RNA? Maybe both
June 3, 2020 phys.org
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Studies of Brain Activity Aren't As Useful As Scientists Thought
June 3, 2020 Duke University
Duke researcher questions 15 years of his own work with a reexamination of functional MRI data
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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA
June 3, 2020 New Scientist