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How science fails
May 5, 2020 Aeon
For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive
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New at Inference Review: A Sizzling Exchange on the Origin of Life
May 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Science Philosopher Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) on How Science Fails
May 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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New at Inference Review: On the Mind-Machine Problem
May 5, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Galileo’s story is always relevant
May 4, 2020 Nature
With science denialism stronger than ever, who better to revisit?
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News Update/Commentary
New ancient plant captures snapshot of evolution
May 4, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered an ancient plant species whose reproductive biology captures the evolution from one to two spore sizes -- an essential transition to the success of the seed and flowering plants we depend on.
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Video
Episode 21: Dr. Stephen Meyer
May 4, 2020 YouTube
On this episode of The Bub and Bob Show, Stephen Meyer, Director Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute, discusses the problems with materialistic naturalism, evolution, and theistic evolution (among other things).
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Predictions are overrated
May 4, 2020 backreaction.blogspot.com
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News Update/Commentary
Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future
May 4, 2020 Science Daily
What effect does extinction of species have on the evolution of surviving species? Evolutionary biologists have investigated this question by conducting a field experiment with a leaf galling fly and its predatory enemies.
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Online Education and the Evolution Debate
May 4, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
Magnetic pulses alter salmon's orientation, suggesting navigation via magnetite in tissue
May 4, 2020 Science Daily
Researchers have taken a step closer to solving one of nature's most remarkable mysteries: How do salmon, when it's time to spawn, find their way back from distant ocean locations to the stream where they hatched?
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The Bioethicist Pandemic
May 4, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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NASA Translates Hubble Images to Music
May 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Why Is Science Growing Comfortable with Panpsychism (“Everything Is Conscious")?
May 3, 2020 Mind Matters
At one time, the idea that “everything is conscious” was the stuff of jokes. Not any more, it seems
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When Beliefs Don’t Depend on Reason…
May 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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John West on How Darwinism “Has Poisoned Western Culture”
May 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Remember Convicted Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein and Harvard’s Evolutionary Dynamics Lab?
May 2, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Propulsive nanomachines: the convergent evolution of archaella, flagella and cilia
May, 2020 FEMS Microbiology Reviews, v.44, n.3, p.253-304
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Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE
May 1, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Where Do Our Memories Live?
May 1, 2020 The Scientist
A new book explores research through the ages that has tried to map the intricacies of the human brain, including pinpointing the seat of memory.
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Research Casts Doubt on Elliptical Galaxies Being Cradles of Intelligent Life
May 1, 2020 Gizmodo
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The Four Different Meanings of ‘Nothing' to a Scientist
May 1, 2020 Forbes
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But IS There Such a Thing As Pandemic Science?
May 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Algae Routinely Steal Genes from Bacteria
May 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Cog Sci Prof: Homo Erectus May Have Invented Language
May 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
New study examines which galaxies are best for intelligent life
May 1, 2020 Science Daily
Giant elliptical galaxies are not as likely as disk-shaped galaxies, such as our own Milky Way, to be cradles of technological civilizations, according to a recent article by a astrophysicist.
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How to Teach Evolution in a Public School -- My Experience
May 1, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nazareth Inscription Study Debunks Evidence for Christ’s Resurrection?
April 30, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Through AI, a Paralyzed Man Has Regained the Sense of Touch
April 30, 2020 Mind Matters
In 2016, through advanced technology, he regained the ability to move individual fingers
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News Update/Commentary
Reduced obesity for weighted-vest wearers
April 30, 2020 Science Daily
The new study indicates that there is something comparable to built-in bathroom scales that contributes to keeping our body weight and, by the same token, fat mass constant.
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News Update/Commentary
Naked mole-rats need carbon dioxide to avoid seizures and here's why
April 30, 2020 Science Daily
African naked mole-rats are sometimes referred to as animal superheroes. They resist cancer, tolerate pain, and live a remarkably long time.
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News Update/Commentary
Eyes send an unexpected signal to the brain
April 30, 2020 Science Daily
A subset of retinal neurons communicates differently from the rest of the eye
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Business Prof Argues: Journals These Days Are Obsessed by Theory
April 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Smithsonian Magazine on the Biggest Human Fossil Discoveries of the Past Decade; ENST Replies
April 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon on Current Efforts to Explain the Universe’s Expansion
April 30, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Many published psychology experiments lack evidence of validity, study finds
April 30, 2020 Science Daily
An examination of nearly 350 published psychological experiments found that nearly half failed to show that they were based on a valid foundation of empirical evidence
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The Scramble to Redeem the S-Blob
April 30, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human Chromosome 2 Fusion Never Happened
April 30, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution
April 30, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery
April 29, 2020 New Scientist
For years, the oldest turtle fossils we could find had fully formed shells. Now, more primitive fossils are revealing the strange tale of how turtle shells evolved
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Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur
April 29, 2020 National Geographic
A newfound fossil tail from this giant predator stretches our understanding of how -- and where -- dinosaurs lived.
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Darwin’s Views of Women Had a Considerable Effect on Society (pdf)
April 29, 2020 Answers Research Journal, v.13, p.35-39
This review has two goals, to document from Darwin’s writings that he believed women were inferior to men, and to document that his views greatly influenced modern academia and evolutionists.
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New fossils rewrite the story of dinosaur evolution and ecology -- and change the appearance of Spinosaurus
April 29, 2020 National Geographic
Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer finds unique swimming adaptations in a dinosaur
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Algae in the oceans often steal genes from bacteria
April 29, 2020 EurekAlert!
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Darwin’s Views of Women Had a Considerable Effect on Society
April 29, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths
April 29, 2020 New Scientist
The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions
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Are Cosmic and Planetary Fine-Tuning Constant?
April 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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“Follow the Science”? Free Webinar, May 16, on Scientism and Society
April 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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John West: How Evolution Drained Meaning from Nature
April 29, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Fish Evolve in a Single Generation? Not So Fast…
April 29, 2020 Uncommon Descent