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• Chimeric birds could explain how brains get big

  August 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2877, p.12

  zebra finch brains develop differently if they are transplanted into the bodies of quail, suggesting that brain size is controlled externally

• Brain might not stand in the way of free will

  August 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2877, p.10

  a classic experiment that suggests the brain is aware of our urge to act spontaneously before we are might have been misinterpreted

• Curiosity might prove we've already found life on Mars

  August 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2877, p.9

  if the Mars Science Laboratory rover finds organic molecules in the soil, Viking's refuted discovery of microbial life will need to be reviewed

• Higgs certainty boosted by more complete analysis

  August 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2877, p.5

  The Higgs boson signal in July was certain enough to be classed as a discovery. Now its statistical significance has risen further.

• The Peculiar Properties of Ice

  August 7, 2012 Evolution News & Views

• Later Hominins: The Australopithecine Gap

  August 6, 2012 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views

• This Is What Earth Will Look Like in 100,000,000 AD

  August 6, 2012 Discover Magazine

  to map the supercontinent of the future, geologists first had to solve a vexing magnetic riddle

• Left and Right, Right and Wrong

  August 3, 2012 John T. Jost Science, v.337, n.6094, p.525-526

  a provocative account of the psychological foundations of morality and how they lead to political conflicts

• Ice Age Tools Hint at 40,000 Years of Bushman Culture

  August 3, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6094, p.512

  archaeologists studying a South African cave say they have found 44,000-year-old artifacts -- including bone tools and poisoned arrowheads -- nearly identical to those still in use by hunter-gatherers

• Coral Reef Thriving in Sediment-Laden Waters

  August 3, 2012 Cambodia Herald

• A Piece of Unsolicited Advice to Students

  August 2, 2012 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views

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  Journal of Evolutionary Biology Confirms Jonathan Wells (by Name) on Peppered Moth Myth

  August 2, 2012 Evolution News & Views

• A complete insect from the Late Devonian period

  August 2, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.82-85

  the fossil of a complete insect from the Late Devonian period (approximately 365 million years ago) is presented

• The time is right to confront misconduct

  August 2, 2012 Nature, v.488, p.7

  after a generation of denial, research leaders are finally treating scientific fraud with the seriousness it deserves

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  The Basic Question

  August 2, 2012 Sarah Bakewell New York Times

• Ghosts in the atom: Unmasking the quantum phantom

  August 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2875, p.28-31

  the wave function of quantum theory has always been accepted as an abstract mathematical device -- but could this cipher actually be real

• An appeal for fairness in society

  August 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2875, p.3

  to tackle inequality we must first overcome our own biased belief that people deserve their position on the social ladder

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  The Magician's Twin: A Documentary on C.S. Lewis and Scientism, Premiering August 11 in Seattle

  August 1, 2012 Evolution News & Views

• How to measure consciousness

  August 1, 2012 Mark Pagel New Scientist, n.2876, p.45

  an intriguing new way to grasp what consciousness is based on computational theory

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  Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

  August 1, 2012 Pantheon

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• Instant Expert: Fossils

  August 1, 2012 Pat Shipman

• The tales they tell

  palaeontologists can decipher how ancient organisms lived and interacted using taphonomy, the study of how fossils

• Meteorite's left-handed acids are a blow to ET search

  August 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2876, p.17

  "left-handed" molecules on asteroids might not be a sign of extraterrestrial life after all, complicating the hunt for aliens

• Lost world of dinosaurs threatened by gas industry

  August 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2876, p.8-9

  the site of 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints will be lost if plans to build the world's largest liquefied natural gas plant in Australia go ahead

• The price of preserving fossils for the future

  August 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2876, p.3

  fossils are an invaluable record of the past and source of knowledge -- and our understanding of them is still evolving

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  Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

  August 1, 2012 Oxford University Press

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• Part of world's largest coral reef thriving in muddy waters

  August 1, 2012 zeenews.india.com

• Evidence of very rapid reef accretion and reef growth under high turbidity and terrigenous sedimentation

  August 1, 2012 C. T. Perry, S. G. Smithers, P. Gulliver, and N. K. Browne Geology, v.40, n.8, p.719-722

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  Acts & Facts, v.41, n.8 (pdf)

  August 1, 2012 Institute for Creation Research

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  The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

  August 1, 2012 W. W. Norton

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  Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex

  August 1, 2012 Oneworld

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• Dinosaur bones Carbon-14 dated to less than 40,000 years

  August 1, 2012 contact: Mike Fischer Shock Dynamics

• Recent C-14 Dating of Fossils including Dinosaur Bone Collagen

  August 1, 2012 Science vs Evolution

  are the results a confirmation of rapid formation of the geologic column as modern sedimentology studies have predicted

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  The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates

  August 1, 2012 Prometheus

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  The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates

  August 1, 2012 Prometheus

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  Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life

  August 1, 2012 Springer

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• The Fragmented Fossil Record of Early Hominins

  July 31, 2012 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views

• You Go, Larry Moran!

  July 31, 2012 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views

• New Book: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on the Giraffe's Neck

  July 31, 2012 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views

• The evolution of a creationist

  July 31, 2012 StarTribune (Twin Cities, Minnesota)

  order of the kind seen in life does not arise spontaneously by natural law and requires an intelligent intervention

• A Paper in Science Recognizes the "Design Principle" at Work in Chromosomes with Their Moving Parts

  July 30, 2012 Evolution News & Views

• Will Kansas Science Standard Update Reignite Creation, Evolution Debate?

  July 30, 2012 Michael Gryboski Christian Post

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  Dutchman builds replica Noah's Ark after flood dream

  July 30, 2012 Tim Hume CNN

• Big Tobacco Indicts Itself

  July 27, 2012 Thomas H. Brandon Science, v.337, n.6093, p.412-413

  drawing on formerly secret industry records, Proctor explores how cigarettes became the most widely used drug on the planet -- and argues for a ban on their manufacture and sale

• Planetary science: The time machine

  July 26, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.422-425

  Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.

• How Free Will Collides with Unconscious Impulses

  July 26, 2012 Scientific American

  volition as self-control exerts veto power over impulses

• On the Evolution of the Mammalian Middle Ear

  July 25, 2012 Jonathan M. Evolution News & Views

• The simple cells that came before everything

  July 25, 2012 Henry Nicholls New Scientist, n.2875, p.47

  a history of the simplest cells at the root of complex life

• Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine

  July 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2875, p.14

  chemical residues trapped in ancient tartar suggests our extinct cousins had knowledge of medicinal plants

• Planetary science: The time machine

  July 25, 2012 Nature News & Comment

  Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.

• What the Literature Says about Chromosomal Fusion and Why It Says It

  July 24, 2012 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views