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Cracking the Cambrian
November 23, 2018 Science
New fossils and sites are helping make sense of the mysterious flowering of animal life half a billion years ago.
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For #GivingTuesday, Help Michael Behe Demonstrate that Darwin Devolves
November 22, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Ancient hippo-like reptile was a giant to rival the dinosaurs
November 22, 2018 New Scientist
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Guest Post: Garrett Lisi on Geometric Naturalness
November 22, 2018 backreaction.blogspot.com
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News Update/Commentary
Humans 'off the hook' for African mammal extinction
November 22, 2018 BBC News
New research has disputed a longstanding view that early humans helped wipe out many of the large mammals that once roamed Africa.
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Will we ever see a black hole?
November 22, 2018 Science Nordic
In the shadowy regions of black holes two fundamental theories describing our world collide. Can these problems be resolved and do black holes really exist?
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An Elephant-Size Mammal Relative Roamed Among Dinosaurs
November 22, 2018 Popular Mechanics
The lumbering beast is the biggest of its kind found.
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Exit route evolved into entry path in plants
November 21, 2018 Nature
Chloroplast organelles in plant cells are thought to have evolved from bacterial cells. It emerges that the protein-import system in chloroplasts arose from components that export proteins out of bacteria.
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Morphing brain DNA hints at a whole new way to treat Alzheimer's
November 21, 2018 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Detrital Zircons Can Give False Geological Ages
November 21, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Zircons are a gold standard for dating. They can yield ages that are statistically significant, but geologically meaningless.
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Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
November 21, 2018 New Scientist
Science journals are laughing all the way to the bank, locking the results of publicly funded research behind exorbitant paywalls. A campaign to make content free must succeed
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Newspaper Article
Visitors From the Ocean’s Twilight Zone
November 21, 2018 New York Times
Researchers recently hauled up specimens from a layer of the world’s seas that contains an abundance of aquatic life.
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‘The Hard Problem’ Review: Goodness Has Everything to Do With It
November 21, 2018 Wall Street Journal
Tom Stoppard grapples with a question that has preoccupied him throughout his career: Are the materialists right, or is there more to man than mere flesh?
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This Is the One Key Difference Separating Good Science from Junk Science
November 21, 2018 Forbes
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Adam and Eve and Evolutionary Creation
November 21, 2018
experimental particle physicist discusses the relationship between science, God, Christianity, and reason
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Response to “Still No Replacement of Darwin: A Reply to Nathaniel Jeanson’s Response to My Review of Replacing Darwin -- The New Origin of Species”
November 21, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will
November 21, 2018 Scientific American
Flickers of light from the edge of the cosmos help physicists advance the idea that the future is not predetermined
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Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves Topples Foundational Claim of Evolutionary Theory
November 21, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
How do flying bees make perfect turns?
November 21, 2018 Science Daily
Bees adjust their speed to keep turning forces constant, new research shows. The findings can be applied to robots and autonomous vehicles.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution: South Africa's hominin record is a fair-weather friend
November 21, 2018 Science Daily
New uranium-lead ages for fossil bearing caves change the landscape of human evolution in South Africa
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News Update/Commentary
Typically human: Babies recognize nested structures similar to our grammar
November 21, 2018 Science Daily
At a mere 5 months of age, babies seemingly have the ability to recognize very complex grammatical structures
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News Update/Commentary
Putting a face on a cell surface
November 21, 2018 Science Daily
With the help of machine learning, researchers have been able to thoroughly describe the repertoire proteins on the cell surface for the first time. The latest findings are opening up new approaches in pharmaceutical research.
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The Present Phase of Stagnation in the Foundations of Physics Is Not Normal
November 21, 2018 nautil.us
The problem is loads of wrong predictions from theoretical physicists.
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Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?
November 20, 2018 Quanta Magazine
How does evolution select the fittest “individuals” when they are ecosystems made up of hosts and their microbiomes? Biologists debate the need to revise theories.
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Cosmology Is in Crisis Over How to Measure the Universe
November 20, 2018 Wired
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Crows Can Be As Smart As Apes
November 20, 2018 Mind Matters
But they have quite different brains. The intelligence doesn't seem to reside in the details of the mechanism
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This Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes
November 20, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why graduate students should get involved in advocacy
November 20, 2018 Nature
Becoming a leader in a field you are passionate about can teach you crucial management skills and offer a support network outside of the lab.
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News Update/Commentary
The taming of the dog, cow, horse, pig and rabbit
November 20, 2018 Science Daily
Research into one of the 'genetic orchestra conductors', microRNAs, sheds light on our selectively guided evolution of domestic pets and farmyard animals such as dogs and cows.
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News Update/Commentary
Dogs know when they don't know
November 20, 2018 Science Daily
Researchers have shown that dogs possess some 'metacognitive' abilities -- specifically, they are aware of when they do not have enough information to solve a problem and will actively seek more information.
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Newspaper Article
Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them.
November 19, 2018 New York Times
Science is mired in a “replication” crisis. Fixing it will not be easy.
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The Journal of Controversial Ideas: it’s academic freedom without responsibility, and that’s recklessness
November 19, 2018 The Conversation
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Gender Ideology in Science: The New Dogma and the New Witch Hunt
November 19, 2018 science2.0
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Biologists create the most lifelike artificial cells yet
November 19, 2018 Science
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Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
November 19, 2018 The Atlantic
Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the usual explanations fall flat.
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War between science and religion is far from inevitable
November 19, 2018 The Conversation
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Blog Post
The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
November 19, 2018 backreaction.blogspot.com
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New dates for ancient stone tools in China point to local invention of complex technology
November 19, 2018 The Conversation
some of the most profound technological innovations in human evolution have been made out of stone
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At Berkeley, rational discussion descends into darkness
November 19, 2018 Washington Examiner
A well-meaning and earnest student senator, Isabella Chow, unleashed the specters of Berkeley’s past -- the contest between conscience and conformity -- by daring to dissent.
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‘Human Zoos’ Exhibits the Racist Toll of Darwinism
November 19, 2018 stream.org
The powerful documentary from the Discovery Institute Human Zoos is something every young person needs to see.
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Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’ more apparent than real
November 19, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Amber find adds to evidence flowering plants appeared much earlier than the great naturalist thought.
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A Secular Shakespeare Scholar on Adam and Eve
November 19, 2018 The Gospel Coalition
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News Update/Commentary
Mite genomes reveal 'mighty surprising' fragrant and colorful secrets
November 19, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have uncovered some unexpected 'foreign' genes in the tiny itch-inducing chigger mite and its more benign but enormous cousin, the giant velvet mite.
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News Update/Commentary
The 'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' found in Asia, suggests homegrown technology
November 19, 2018 Science Daily
A study by an international team of researchers have determines that carved stone tools, also known as Levallois cores, were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago.
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News Update/Commentary
Jumping genes shed light on how advanced life may have emerged
November 19, 2018 Science Daily
A previously unappreciated interaction in the genome turns out to have possibly been one of the driving forces in the emergence of advanced life.
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News Update/Commentary
Geneticist solves long-standing finch beak mystery
November 19, 2018 Science Daily
Bridgett vonHoldt found a single genetic key that unlocked beak size in a central African finch species
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News Update/Commentary
Widely used reference for the human genome is missing 300 million bits of DNA
November 19, 2018 Science Daily
experts say additional reference genomes from different populations are needed for research
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Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, January 18-19: “Tear Down This Wall!”
November 19, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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J. P. Moreland Schools an Obnoxious Atheist
November 19, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species' ancient history
November 19, 2018 New Scientist