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• NAS Social Scientists Campaign for Consensus Indoctrination

  September 18, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  some social scientists in the National Academy of Sciences consider it their duty to persuade the public that science is always right

• Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

  September 18, 2014 Iosif Lazaridis, et al. Nature, v.513, p.409-413

• Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

  September 18, 2014 Patrice F. Rey, Nicolas Coltice, and Nicolas Flament Nature, v.513, p.405-408

• News Update/Commentary

  Human sense of fairness evolved to favor long-term cooperation, primate study suggests

  September 18, 2014 Georgia State University Science Daily

• Chances of first life improved by weighted dice

  September 18, 2014 New Scientist, n.2987, p.11

  adjusting the numbers of various types of molecule in the environment seem to improve the chances of self-replicating life generating spontaneously

• Coming Next Month, It's The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Landmark Science Series

  September 18, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• News Update/Commentary

  Nature of war

  September 17, 2014 Lincoln Park Zoo Science Daily

  Chimps inherently violent; Study disproves theory that ‘chimpanzee wars' are sparked by human influence

• Biggest hunting dinosaur was an aquatic shark-gobbler

  September 17, 2014 New Scientist, n.2987, p.17

  Spinosaurus was the only dinosaur to spend most of its time in the water. It lurked in mangrove swamps and may have swallowed sharks whole.

• Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

  September 17, 2014 New Scientist, n.2987, p.14

  putting the human FOXP2 gene -- thought to play a role in the development of language -- into mice makes them quicker at learning tasks automatically

• News Update/Commentary

  Nature of war: Chimps inherently violent

  September 17, 2014 Science Daily

  study disproves theory that 'chimpanzee wars' are sparked by human influence

• News Update/Commentary

  Counting fish teeth reveals regulatory DNA changes behind rapid evolution, adaptation

  September 17, 2014 University of California, Berkeley Science Daily

• Birds Surprise Evolutionists

  September 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  whether considering their design or their evolution, scientists keep finding surprises in birds

• A Scientist's Unethical Quote Fabrication

  September 17, 2014 Bruce Chapman Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• News Update/Commentary

  New branch added to European family tree

  September 17, 2014 Harvard Medical School Science Daily

  Europeans descended from at least 3, not 2, groups of ancient humans

• News Update/Commentary

  New explanation for origin of plate tectonics

  September 17, 2014 University of Sydney Science Daily

  What set Earth's plates in motion?

• Findings Spur New Ethical Challenges

  September 16, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Some researchers are pushing harder for human embryonic stem cells over induced pluripotent stem cells. Other news overlapping with ethics is noted in this entry.

• News Update/Commentary

  Impact that doomed the dinosaurs helped the forests bloom

  September 16, 2014 PLoS Science Daily

• Diversity challenge

  September 16, 2014 Nature, v.513, p.279

  there is growing evidence that embracing diversity -- in all its senses -- is key to doing good science

• The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

  September 15, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.42-45

  far from staying put, RNA -- the less famous cousin of DNA -- can roam far afield, carrying information to other cells in the body and even to other animals

• It's time to criminalise serious scientific misconduct

  September 15, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.27

  Research misconduct degrades trust in science and causes real-world harm. As such, it should be a crime akin to fraud, argues Richard Smith.

• News Update/Commentary

  Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars

  September 15, 2014 Manchester University Science Daily

• Now It's Whale Hips: Another Icon of Darwinian Evolution, Vestigial Structures, Takes a Hit

  September 15, 2014 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Big Bang’s Lithium Problem Gets More Problematic

  September 15, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  there’s no escape; new measurements show far less lithium than predicted by the big bang, and more fine tuning than would be expected by chance

• Big Picture or Big Gaps? Why Natural Theology is better than Intelligent Design

  September 15, 2014 Alister McGrath BioLogos Forum

• Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save

  September 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.22

  Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is.

• How Did the Archer Fish Learn Physics?

  September 14, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  a little fish that shoots down bugs out of the air learned some tricks of optics and propulsion that impress scientists

• Giant Reptiles Roamed the Earth, Water, and Sky

  September 13, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  record-setting dinosaurs have been announced this month

• Morality beyond the lab

  September 12, 2014 Jesse Graham Science, v.345, n.6202, p.1242

• Morality in everyday life

  September 12, 2014 Science, v.345, n.6202, p.1340-1343

  seeing, performing, or receiving a moral act influences how people behave later that day

• Giant dinosaur was a terror of Cretaceous waterways

  September 12, 2014 Michael Balter Science, v.345, n.6202, p.1232

• News Update/Commentary

  From worm muscle to spinal discs: An evolutionary surprise

  September 12, 2014 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Science Daily

• Just obeying orders? Rethinking obedience and atrocity

  September 12, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.28-31

  ordinary people can commit atrocities simply by following orders, iconic 1960s experiments concluded -- but this notion of the "banality of evil" is wrong

• The Miller Experiment Is Dead; Long Live the Miller Experiment

  September 12, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  the image of Stanley Miller pondering his spark-discharge apparatus is too valuable an icon to toss on the trash heap of history

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  The Time Scale of Evolutionary Innovation

  September 11, 2014 Krishnendu Chatterjee, et al. PLoS Computational Biology, v.10, n.9

• News Update/Commentary

  World's largest DNA origami created

  September 11, 2014 North Carolina State University Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists report first semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus

  September 11, 2014 Science Daily

  massive predator was more than 9 feet longer than largest T. rex

• Scientific Claims Are Reversible

  September 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  how much confidence can the public put in scientific claims today, given that some long-lived dogmas have been reversed

• Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

  September 11, 2014 Lucia Carbone, et al. Nature, v.513, p.195-201

• The banality of evil? People aren't so easily led

  September 11, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.5

  the problem of why ordinary people do appalling things has vexed scholars for centuries, but outmoded ideas won't help counter modern radicalisation

• Darwin's "Horrid Doubt": The Mind

  September 11, 2014 Denyse O'Leary Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• 11 Photos of Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Erupting That Are Just Unreal

  September 11, 2014 Andrew Freedman mashable.com

• Is Intelligent Design a Circular Argument? A Conversation with Atheist Activist Matt Dillahunty

  September 11, 2014 Jonathan M. Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Weird creatures may be relics from dawn of animal life

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.17

  new mushroom-shaped animals from the bottom of the sea look a lot like organisms that thrived just before the explosion of animal life more than half a billion years ago

• Largest land dinosaur yet makes T. rex look tiny

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.17

  Dreadnoughtus is larger than all known sauropod dinosaurs, and its highly intact skeleton could bring unprecedented insights into dinosaur life

• Europa's icy plate tectonics may support life

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.17

  Jupiter's moon Europa may be the first world other than Earth to sport plate tectonics, only above its ocean instead of below

• Jurassic corpse-eaters revealed by fossil reptiles

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.12

  the remains of a 3-metre ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at what feasted on death during the dinosaur era

• Paralysis adds to horror of waking up under the knife

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.11

  the largest ever study of patients who wake up during surgery has revealed that pain is not the worst part of being conscious in the operating theatre

• Body Wonders at the Cellular Level

  September 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  if we kept track of all the nano-scopic processes that keep us alive, we would be giga-astonished

• News Update/Commentary

  Sloths are no slouches when it comes to evolution

  September 10, 2014 BioMed Central Science Daily

• News Update/Commentary

  Groundwater tied to human evolution

  September 10, 2014 University of New South Wales Science Daily