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Natural philosophy redux
May 13, 2019 Aeon
The great split between science and philosophy must be repaired. Only then can we answer the urgent, fundamental problems
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Bill Nye Is a Terrible Spokesman for Science
May 13, 2019 American Council on Science and Health
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Newspaper Article
Surviving Despair in the Great Extinction
May 13, 2019 New York Times
One million species of plants and animals are heading toward annihilation, and it’s our fault. How can we possibly live with that truth?
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News Update/Commentary
Evolutionary backing found in analysis of mammalian vertebrae
May 13, 2019 Science Daily
Differences in numbers of vertebrae are most extreme in mammals which do not rely on running and leaping, such as those adapted to suspensory locomotion like apes and sloths, a team of anthropologists has concluded.
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Professor James Tour: A “Liar for Jesus”?
May 13, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Scientific Publishing Is Too Much Like Facebook
May 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Another Human Ancestor “Falsified”: Study Puts Australopithecus sediba Back in the Ground
May 13, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
Complex Eyes of ‘Simple’ Clams Confound Darwin
May 13, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Astonishing Duplicity Continues Around Haeckel’s Embryos
May 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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What Bill Nye Is Doing Now
May 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
The trouble with Facebook and what it has in common with scientific publishing.
May 12, 2019 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Colin Patterson: Can You Tell Me Anything About Evolution That Is True?
May 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Ancient Humans Used Medicinal Plants
May 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Cambridge Caves to Left-wing Bully Mob, Fires Young Scholar
May 11, 2019 Breitbart
Cambridge University, formerly a respected seat of learning, has booted out a young scholar for daring to champion the cause of free inquiry.
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Blog Post
Extreme Fine Tuning in Body Cells, Part 2
May 11, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are two examples of an ultra-fine balance between function and disease inside the cells of our body’s sensory cells (Part 2).
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Biology Evolves: One-Third of Biologists Now Question Darwinism
May 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Defending Civilization, 2: Linking Gospel-Warrant and the Naturally Evident Law of Our Morally Governed Nature
May 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Educating Oneself Away from Science Denial: Two True Stories
May 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon: Researchers Showed That the Carbon State of the Universe IS Fine-Tuned
May 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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The Newest Finding on the Expansion of the Universe
May 10, 2019 Answers in Genesis
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Innate Immune Cells May Actually Remember Their Targets
May 10, 2019 The Scientist
Human natural killer cells, previously considered not to participate in adaptive immunity, remember viral antigens after initial exposures, according to a new study.
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Prehistoric Medicine: How Archaic Humans Cured Themselves
May 10, 2019 Discover magazine
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Blog Post
There Is No “Depression Gene”
May 10, 2019 Science
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A Critic of the Evangelical Statement on AI Misunderstands the Issues
May 10, 2019 Mind Matters
On the question of moral responsibility, Dr. Swamidass seems to misunderstand the Statement entirely
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What Is the Warrant for the Core Gospel and Linked Ethics? (Does This Matter?)
May 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Yale Computer Scientist Gives Up on Darwin
May 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Bird “Goes Extinct” Twice
May 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Extreme Fine Tuning in Body Cells, I
May 10, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are two examples of an ultra-fine balance between function and disease inside the cells of our body’s sensory cells (Part 1 of 2).
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The Doomsday Extinction Rhetoric Ignores the Speciation Mess
May 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Yale’s David Gelernter: Darwin’s Doubt Is “One of the Most Important Books in a Generation”
May 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Marcos Eberlin Discovered Intelligent Design
May 10, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Global Analysis Reveals Amount of Sediment on the Ocean Floor
May 10, 2019 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Researchers calculate that there are ~3.37 × 108 cubic kilometers of sediment on the world’s ocean floor.
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Video
The In-depth Story Behind a Climate Fraud
May 9, 2019 YouTube
Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or “the world's scientists", or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous.
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The Neanderthal Brain -- Clues About Cognition
May 9, 2019 Sapiens
One of the most tantalizing topics about Neanderthals is their cognition: how it developed and whether it was much different from patterns of thought in Homo sapiens.
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Only Street Dogs Are Real Dogs
May 9, 2019 nautil.us
Purebreds don’t satisfy the biological definition of a species.
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Evangelicals Take on Artificial Intelligence
May 9, 2019 Wall Street Journal
As the technology advances, science and religion should each give the other its due.
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This Deep-Sea Fish Has the Most Types of Opsins Among Vertebrates
May 9, 2019 The Scientist
The silver spinyfin has an extraordinary diversity of rod photopigments, which researchers propose may allow it to see color in the deep, dark sea.
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If Social Robots Could Cry, They'd Need Plenty of Tissues for This One
May 9, 2019 Mind Matters
The spate of recent failures of social robot firms prompts a question: Are developers listening to markets?
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Australopithecus sediba Not Likely Humans’ Ancestor: Study
May 9, 2019 The Scientist
The fossil record for the ancient hominin A. sediba is younger than that of Homo, a “highly unlikely” scenario for a direct lineage.
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The Underwhelming Creativity of AI
May 9, 2019 Mind Matters
The technology regurgitates, it does not create
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Blog Post
Australopithecus sediba Dismissed as Human Ancestor
May 9, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two paleoanthropologists writing in Science explain why the mysterious A. sediba is unlikely to be related to the genus Homo.
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News Update/Commentary
The heart ‘talks' to fat cells
May 9, 2019 Science Daily
Like sending a letter through the mail or a text over a cellular network, the heart can generate messages that travel long distances through the body.
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News Update/Commentary
Location is everything for plant cell differentiation
May 9, 2019 Science Daily
Now, researchers have shown that the accumulation and intracellular localization of regulatory protein ATML1 are also critical for the differentiation of plant cells into an epidermal layer.
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News Update/Commentary
The bird that came back from the dead
May 9, 2019 Science Daily
New research has shown that the last surviving flightless species of bird, a type of rail, in the Indian Ocean had previously gone extinct but rose from the dead thanks to a rare process called ‘iterative evolution'.
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News Update/Commentary
New type of highly sensitive vision discovered in deep-sea fish
May 9, 2019 Science Daily
The deep sea is home to fish species that can detect various wavelengths of light in near-total darkness.
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Clever Designs in Nature Worth Imitating
May 9, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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If No One Is Really a Darwinist Any More…
May 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Altruism? In Viruses?
May 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Sediba Is Not a Human Ancestor After All. Back to Lucy, But…
May 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Video
Unbelievable: The Myth of Future Alien Enlightenment with science historian Michael Keas
May 9, 2019 YouTube
Will alien contact bring alien enlightenment, when we receive the wisdom accumulated over billions of years of cosmo-cultural evolution?