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Doctor’s Diary: Jack of All Trades
June 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Familiar Culprit May Have Caused Mysterious Mass Extinction
June 10, 2020 New York Times
A planet heated by giant volcanic eruptions drove the earliest known wipeout of life on Earth.
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Humankind review: A compelling case for believing people are good
June 10, 2020 New Scientist
Rutger Bregman’s new book Humankind argues that people are innately good, and that if we assume this to be true, the whole world could benefit
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Autocatalytic Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality
June 10, 2020 Chemical Reviews, v.120, n.11, p.4831-4847
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A rare heart bone is discovered in Chimpanzees
June 10, 2020 University of Nottingham
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Human eggs release chemicals that attract some sperm more than others
June 10, 2020 New Scientist
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The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought
June 10, 2020 New Scientist
A near-mythical titanosaur could have been twice as heavy as Patagotitan, the dinosaur previously thought to be the largest animal ever to walk the Earth
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Einstein was right about how extremely massive objects fall in space
June 10, 2020 New Scientist
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Dinosaur Washed Out to Sea with Its Last Meal
June 10, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
How the brain controls our speech
June 10, 2020 Science Daily
Speaking requires both sides of the brain. Each hemisphere takes over a part of the complex task of forming sounds, modulating the voice and monitoring what has been said. However, the distribution of tasks is different than has been thought up to now
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News Update/Commentary
Population ecology: Origins of genetic variability in seals
June 10, 2020 Science Daily
A new study shows that fluctuations in population sizes in the past have had a significant effect on contemporary seal populations, and estimates the risk of genetic impoverishment in the species investigated.
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Darwin’s Silver Chair
June 10, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Tale of How Plants Became Meat Eaters
June 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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To Be a Truly Woke Darwinian These Days, You Must Wear Blinders
June 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Another Stab at Are Viruses Alive?
June 10, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Einstein's Single Journal Paper Ended WWII
June 9, 2020 Mind Matters
Does that mean that a thousand papers could multiply the effect? Think again.
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Dinosaur Footprints Discovered on ... the Roof of a Cave?
June 9, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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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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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