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Why it’s only science that can answer all the big questions
August 21, 2018 Aeon
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Complex Organisms are Degenerating -- Rapidly
August 21, 2018 Detecting Design
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Complex Organisms are Degenerating -- Rapidly
August 21, 2018 Detecting Design
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News Update/Commentary
Water ice 'detected on Moon's surface'
August 21, 2018 BBC News
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Ice found on moon surface, raising prospect of lunar colony
August 20, 2018 The Guardian
Patches of frost around moon’s north and south poles could provide a source of water for humans, say astronomers
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Reports of Homo erectus' laziness are 'moronic'
August 20, 2018 Popular Science
What bad headlines call lazy is what early humans called survival.
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Human and reptile brains aren’t so different after all
August 20, 2018 Massive Science
Reports of our brains’ differences seem greatly exaggerated, according to recent neuroscience
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Ancestor of all life on Earth evolved earlier than we thought, according to our new timescale
August 20, 2018 The Conversation
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Alive and ticking
August 20, 2018 Aeon
The idea that nature is a humming, complex, clockwork machine has been around for centuries. Is it due for a revival?
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30 Million-Year-Old Praying Mantis Is Preserved in Pristine Piece of Amber
August 20, 2018 My Modern Met
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Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?
August 20, 2018 Mind Matters
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology
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Blog Post
Sometimes the "Bots Turn Out to Be Humans
August 20, 2018 Mind Matters
That “lifelike” effect was easier to come by than some might think
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Blog Post
Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?
August 20, 2018 Mind Matters
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology
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Intelligent design? How come He made so many blunders?
August 19, 2018 The Guardian
Whatever Tim Peake thinks, human bodies are so flawed we’re lucky to be here at all
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Blog Post
Science’s Bullying Problem
August 19, 2018 Discover magazine
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The Earth Invented Nuclear Reactors Before We Did
August 17, 2018 Science Friday
the Oklo natural nuclear reactor
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Early Development of the Fruit Fly as Evidence of Design
August 17, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Study confirms truth behind ‘Darwin’s moth’
August 17, 2018 University of Exeter
Scientists have revisited -- and confirmed -- one of the most famous textbook examples of evolution in action.
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If we made life in a lab, would we understand it differently?
August 17, 2018 Aeon
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Blog Post
Do Children Trust Robots Too Much?
August 17, 2018 Mind Matters
Maybe, but more study is needed, say researchers
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New Findings Challenge Secular Dating Models
August 16, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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The Controversy Around the First Museum Dinosaurs
August 16, 2018 Daily JSTOR
Dinosaur bones on display at the American Museum of Natural History always balanced conveying objective truth with promoting science to the public.
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The Greatest Mistake in the History of Physics
August 16, 2018 Forbes
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Blog Post
From the People Who Brought you the Hydrogen Bomb…..
August 16, 2018 Times of Israel
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News Update/Commentary
Earliest galaxies found 'on our cosmic doorstep'
August 16, 2018 BBC News
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Why taking ayahuasca is like having a near-death experience
August 15, 2018 New Scientist
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Following Alfred Russel Wallace’s footsteps to Borneo, where he penned his seminal evolution paper
August 15, 2018 The Conversation
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Magazine Article
Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours
August 15, 2018 New Scientist
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Magazine Article
Why taking ayahuasca is like having a near-death experience
August 15, 2018 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Could One Single Machine Invent Everything?
August 15, 2018 Mind Matters
The king’s perpetual innovation machine was all ready to roll but then a skeptic butted in
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New Scientist Live: the sophisticated home life of Neanderthals
August 14, 2018 New Scientist
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Magazine Article
New Scientist Live: the sophisticated home life of Neanderthals
August 14, 2018 New Scientist
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Blog Post
Good-Flying Cosmopolitan Pterosaur Found Earlier Than Thought
August 14, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A large pterosaur in Utah is 65 million Darwin Years older than thought, but was already built for flying.
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The feathered revolution: How dinosaurs became birds
August 14, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
The evolutionary tale of birds is full of twists, turns and discoveries that continue to rewrite the history books.
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News Update/Commentary
Being human: Big toe clung on longest to primate origins
August 14, 2018 BBC News
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Magazine Article
Orca who carried her dead infant is not alone -- many animals grieve
August 13, 2018 New Scientist
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The Behavior of Water: Scientists Find New Properties of H2O
August 13, 2018 New York University
A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water -- a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed.
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Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
August 13, 2018 Quanta Magazine
The nearest neighbor problem asks where a new point fits into an existing data set. A few researchers set out to prove that there was no universal way to solve it. Instead, they found such a way.
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Who Creates Information in a Market?
August 13, 2018 Mind Matters
Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs)' algorithms make personally gathering information obsolete?
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Blog Post
Who Creates Information in a Market?
August 13, 2018 Mind Matters
Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs)' algorithms make personally gathering information obsolete?
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News Update/Commentary
Winged reptiles thrived before dinosaurs
August 13, 2018 BBC News
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Blog Post
Why Machines Can't Think As We Do
August 11, 2018 Mind Matters
As philosopher Michael Polanyi noted, much that we know is hard to codify or automate
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Why apes can’t talk: our study suggests they’ve got the voice but not the brains
August 10, 2018 The Conversation
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Blog Post
Why Can't Machines Learn Simple Tasks?
August 9, 2018 Mind Matters
They can learn to play chess more easily than to walk
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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Made Huge Dead Zones in Oceans
August 8, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
The discovery reveals similarities between the extinction event that ended the Mesozoic Era and human-driven global warming.
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News Update/Commentary
Oldest-ever igneous meteorite contains clues to planet building blocks
August 6, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star or supernova.
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Magazine Article
Did we really evolve domestic violence? We don't know yet
August 6, 2018 New Scientist
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God Delusion for kids: Richard Dawkins working on new atheism books
August 2, 2018 Premier (UK)
Richard Dawkins has announced that he's working on two books for children and young people that explore atheism.
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Diverse genome study upends understanding of how language evolved
August 2, 2018 Nature
Research casts doubt on the idea that the FOXP2 gene -- linked to language evolution -- is special to modern humans.
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Ussher Explained and Corrected (pdf)
August 1, 2018 Bible and Spade