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"Volcanology: Fire and life"
August 20, 2008 Nature, v.454, p.930-932
recent eruptions and field expeditions may herald a return to glory for the Son of Krakatau
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The forgotten scandal of the Soviet ape-man
August 20, 2008 New Scientist, n.2670
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Stone Age mass graves reveal green Sahara
August 20, 2008 New Scientist, n.2670, p.17
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Kamikaze bacteria illustrate evolution of co-operation
August 20, 2008 Nature News
suicidal Salmonella sacrifice themselves to allow their clones to get a foothold in the gut
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Science demands that seeing is believing
August 19, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald
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News Update/Commentary
Mystery of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved by Tree Rings
August 19, 2008 Science Daily
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Creationist challenges Dawkins
August 19, 2008 Guardian (UK)
the challenge comes from the Turkish Harun Yahya, whose Atlas of Creation was sent to thousands of academics across Europe
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Bloating galaxies confound astronomers
August 19, 2008 New Scientist
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REVIEW: 20 August 2008
August 19, 2008 New Scientist, n.2670, p.47
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Free Will versus the Programmed Brain
August 19, 2008 Scientific American
If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything -- or any responsibility for what we do?
- The Value of Believing in Free Will: Encouraging a Belief in De
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To Teach or Not to Teach: Common Misconceptions About Intelligent Design (Part 3)
August 18, 2008 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Mennonite Professors Gather in Harrisonburg
August 18, 2008 Eastern Mennonite University
two keynote speakers approached the theme, "Creation, Christ and the Classroom," from opposite perspectives, theological and temporal
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Why not every scientist worships at Darwin's feet
August 18, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald
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A Public Letter to the Discovery Institute
August 17, 2008 OpEdNews
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News Update/Commentary
Surprising Details of Evolution of Protein Translation Revealed
August 17, 2008 Science Daily
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Sahara: Remains of 5,000-year-old cemetery found
August 16, 2008 Now Public
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CULTURAL EVOLUTION: "Bridging the Big Gap"
August 15, 2008 Science, v.321, n.5891, p.914
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News Update/Commentary
Hybrid 'Muttsucker' Has Genes of Three Species
August 15, 2008 Science Daily
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10 Questions for Will Wright
August 15, 2008 Game Daily
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Incubating 'Spore' the Wright Way
August 15, 2008 Forbes
players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape
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CLIMATE PREDICTION: "Seasonal-Climate Forecasts Improving Ever So Slowly"
August 15, 2008 Science, v.321, n.5891, p.900-901
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Chicago dinosaur hunters uncover ancient human graveyard in Sahara
August 15, 2008 Chicago Tribune discovery offers glimpse of era when the desert was a lush paradise
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Remains of 5,000-year-old cemetery found in Sahara
August 15, 2008 CTV, Canada (Associated Press)
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Stars ablaze in other skies
August 15, 2008 Science News
calculations find that many universes could sustain stars
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ARCHAEOLOGY: "Going Deeper Into the Grotte Chauvet"
August 15, 2008 Science, v.321, n.5891, p.904-905
stunning images considered the world's oldest cave art
- The Cave of Chauvet-Point-d'Arc
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"Quantum mechanics: The speed of instantly"
August 14, 2008 Nature, v.454, p.831-832 Pairs of quantum-mechanically entangled particles seem to know at once what is happening to each other. Experiments show that even if this signalling is not instantaneous, it must be really, really fast.
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"Testing the speed of 'spooky action at a distance'"
August 14, 2008 Nature, v.454, p.861-864
- EDITOR'S SUMMARY: Spooky action: setting a speed limit
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News Update/Commentary
How DNA Repairs Can Reshape Genome, Spawn New Species
August 14, 2008 Science Daily
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Remains of 5,000-year-old cemetery found in Sahara
August 14, 2008 CNEWS (Canada)
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Truth's Caper
August 14, 2008 Powell's Books
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Murrieta Christian school loses case against UC
August 13, 2008 Los Angeles Times
a judge rules that the university system was not discriminatory in its refusal to count certain classes toward admission
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Physicists await dark-matter confirmation
August 13, 2008 Nature, v.454, p.808-809
PAMELA mission offers tantalizing hint of success
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Quantum strangeness breaks the light barrier
August 13, 2008 New Scientist, n.2669, p.14
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Black hole caught eating a star
August 13, 2008 New Scientist, n.2669, p.14
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Climate change: The next ten years
August 13, 2008 New Scientist, n.2669
a look at the latest forecasts and how reliable they are
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The evolutionary story of the 'language gene'
August 13, 2008 New Scientist, n.2669
When biologists discovered the role of FOXP2 in language, they thought it would set us apart from other animals. How wrong they were.
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Biology 'a la Popperiana' and Evolution's Dubious Empiricism
August 13, 2008 Access Research Network (blog)
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Darwin, Dawkins and Purves
August 12, 2008 unfair polarisation of the science and religion debate
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Optimism in Evolution
August 12, 2008 New York Times
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Victory in California creationism case
August 12, 2008 National Center for Science Education
the defendants in Association of Christian Schools International et al. v. Roman Stearns et al. have prevailed
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Galileo, Reconsidered
August 12, 2008 Smithsonian Magazine
the first biography of Galileo Galilei resurfaces and offers a new theory as to why the astronomer was put on trial
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Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer
August 12, 2008 Nature News
quantum weirdness even stranger than previously thought
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Galileo, Reconsidered
August 12, 2008 Smithsonian Magazine
the first biography of Galileo Galilei resurfaces and offers a new theory as to why the astronomer was put on trial
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Most criticism of religion in Spore is from "militant atheists", claims Wright
August 11, 2008 eurogamer
as a simulation of evolution from single-cell organism to space-faring civilisation, Will Wright feared his latest creation would draw criticism from religious groups
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Survival of the Fittest: Even Cancer Cells Follow the Laws of Evolution
August 11, 2008 Science Daily
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Unholy warrior -- Richard Dawkins interview
August 11, 2008 The Scotsman
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Are we science-savvy enough to make informed decisions?
August 11, 2008 USA Today
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Cosmic Crusader
August 10, 2008 Washington Post, p.BW04 the life of a little-known philosopher with some very big ideas
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The Darwingate Papers
August 10, 2008 Access Research Network (blog)
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"How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science"
August 8, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education, v.54, n.48, p.A56