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Nature's Infrared Club
March 1, 2020 spie.org
A handful of biological species can detect Infrared radiation. Envious of this evolution-honed sensory superpower, researchers with technological visions are working to emulate it.
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Taking Power in the Academy
March, 2020 First Things
In September 2017, I published a peer-reviewed paper titled “The Case for Colonialism” in Third World Quarterly. Eighteen thousand people signed petitions against the paper, six thousand of them academics.
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Genes that Escape Silencing on the Second X Chromosome May Drive Disease
March 1, 2020 The Scientist
When X-linked genes evade silencing on the “inactive” chromosome in XX cells, some protect women from diseases such as cancer, but others seem to promote conditions such as autoimmunity.
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Claim: There Are Benefits to Nihilism
March 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A New Piece of Information in the Question of Why Matter Exists at All in the Universe
March 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A Just-So Story About the Origin of Religious Beliefs
March 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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At Unbelievable: James Tour vs. Lee Cronin on Origin of Life
March 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Granville Sewell: Bladderworts Are Irreducibly Complex
March 1, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Traces of DNA Found in Fossilized Dinosaur Skull
March, 2020 Geology In
A shocking new study suggests that researchers have found traces of DNA inside a fossilized dinosaur skull. Cartilage cells, chromosomes and DNA preserved in 75-million-year-old baby duck-billed dinosaur
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Debates: Does Information Theory Provide a New Paradigm for Earth Science?
March 1, 2020 Water Resources Research, v.56, n.2
Emerging Concepts and Pathways of Information Physics
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A Losing Theory of Evolution
February 29, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolution by gene loss? Are they kidding? Is that how to evolve a giraffe or fruit fly?
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Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind Is More Than the Brain
February 29, 2020 Mind Matters
He gave three lines of reasoning, based on brain surgery on over a thousand patients
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Structural Evolution of the Glacier Ice Worm Fo ATP Synthase Complex
February 28, 2020 The Protein Journal, v.39, p.152-159
atypically high intracellular ATP levels which have been linked to unusual ability to thrive in hydrated glacier ice
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Video
Are we close to discovering the Origin of Life? James Tour vs Lee Cronin
February 28, 2020 YouTube
Nanotechnology Prof James (Jim) Tour & Glasgow biology Prof Lee Cronin debate contemporary Origins of Life research and whether Lee’s lab is on the way to discovering it.
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Molecular evidence supports Darwin’s adaptationist view, informing the debate over what drives evolution
February 28, 2020 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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A Key Ingredient for Life Has Been Found on an ‘Extraterrestrial Source,’ Scientists Report
February 28, 2020 Motherboard (by Vice)
This is the first time a complete protein has been discovered on an object from space, if the study's results are confirmed.
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Metabolic Pathways to God
February 28, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Darwinian Medicine Is Poison to Health Care
February 28, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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Glowing Amphibians Extremely Common
February 28, 2020 The Scientist
A study of the animals using blue light reveals what humans are not able to see with the naked eye.
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Theoretical Physicist Slams Panpsychism
February 28, 2020 Mind Matters
Electrons cannot be conscious, in Sabine Hossenfelder’s view, because they cannot change their behavior
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Dinosaur DNA Found!
February 28, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Deep-timers had a big enough problem with collagen and melanosomes. But DNA should be long gone. 75 million years? No way!
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News Update/Commentary
Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light
February 28, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe
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Josh Swamidass on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Washington
February 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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From Intelligent Design Summer Seminar to Faculty Lounge; Deadline to Apply, March 4
February 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Doctor’s Diary: The Ultimate Engineer
February 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Aquatic Bladderworts -- Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature
February 28, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Behe vs Swamidass Debate (Quality Vid)
February 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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American Physicist Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
February 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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The co-evolution of plants and humans
February 28, 2020 Cosmos Magazine
Botanical historian puts new twist on plant domestication.
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Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96
February 28, 2020 New York Times
After an early breakthrough on light and matter, he became a writer who challenged climate science and pondered space exploration and nuclear warfare.
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At Oscillations: “Natural Selection” Issue Stirs Again at College Boards
February 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Huge Discordance Between Gene Trees in a New Phylogenetic Study
February 28, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Footnote: Evolution Adds Nothing
February 27, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new study of foot stiffness helps explain human walking and running, and might inspire robots. Evolution adds nothing.
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It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent
February 27, 2020 New Scientist
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Evolution “Dreaming” -- Tough Language from Biologist Michael Lynch
February 27, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Getting to the Roots of Design
February 27, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Thousands of Denisovan Tools Found, Also Bracelets and Tiaras?
February 27, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Snakes Get Their Venom from Some Surprising Sources
February 27, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Deaf Moths Frustrate Bats by Absorbing Their Sonar Calls
February 27, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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A Clash of Perspectives on Panpsychism
February 27, 2020 nautil.us
What panpsychism does -- and does not -- explain about consciousness.
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Pioneer Neuroscientists Believed the Mind Is More Than the Brain
February 27, 2020 Mind Matters
A number of them were Nobel Laureates and their views were informed by their work
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Climbing the Occasionally Cataclysmic Cascades
February 27, 2020 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Living in Geologic Time: Every one of the Pacific Northwest’s volatile volcanoes is likely to erupt again before the range goes extinct.
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Veritas Forum 2020 -- God and/or Evolution?
February 27, 2020 YouTube
The scientific community seeks to give an account of the world around us in terms of mathematical laws and natural processes. For Christians, this consensus has posed a number of challenges.
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Why your brain is not a computer
February 27, 2020 The Guardian
For decades it has been the dominant metaphor in neuroscience. But could this idea have been leading us astray all along?
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Electrons Don’t Think
February 27, 2020 nautil.us
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Blog Post
5 Areas of Science that Pose Problems for Evolution
February 27, 2020 The Gospel Coalition
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Quackademic medicine update: UC Irvine reneges on promise of scientific rigor
February 27, 2020 Science-Based Medicine
In 2017, UC Irvine promised that the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute would be “rigorously evidence-based”. A recent review discovers plenty of pseudoscience.
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Large exoplanet could have the right conditions for life
February 27, 2020 University of Cambridge
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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Blog Post
Anti-Intellectualism and Rejecting Science
February 27, 2020 NeuroLogica
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life
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Weird worm is earliest known animal to evolve away body parts
February 27, 2020 New Scientist