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We are all susceptible to delusions
July 24, 2012 New Scientist, n.2874, p.27
in his new book, novelist and former psychologist Frank Tallis explores the psychology behind demonic possession
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An Incontrovertible Case of Intelligent Design: Artificial Jellyfish Made from Silicone and Rat Heart Muscle
July 23, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Are these the brain cells that give us consciousness?
July 23, 2012 New Scientist, n.2874, p.32-35
the brainiest creatures share a secret -- an odd kind of brain cell involved in emotions and empathy that may have accidentally made us conscious
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Genesis of a social divide
July 21, 2012 StarTribune (Twin Cities, Minnesota)
Nearly half of Americans still don't believe in evolution. I understand; I once was one of them.
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Why Does the World Exist?, By Jim Holt
July 21, 2012 Independent (UK)
a fine study of the laws of the universe interrogates what, if anything, came before the Big Bang
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Magazine Article
How to Resurrect a Mammoth Protein [Interactive]
July 20, 2012 Scientific American
researchers can now reconstruct genes from extinct animals and study the proteins they encoded
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Ancient DNA Research Revolutionizes Scientists’ Understanding of Extinct Animals
July 20, 2012 Scientific American
biotechnology reveals how the woolly mammoth survived the cold and other mysteries of extinct creatures
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Evolutionary physiology: A bone for all seasons
July 19, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.310-311
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Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology
July 19, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.358-361
dinosaurs were not necessarily cold-blooded: the main argument in favour of this, namely the presence of seasonal lines of arrested bone growth, has been demolished by a comprehensive study of extant ruminants
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Palaeoanthropology: Lucy's relatives walked upright
July 19, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.274
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Views of the WEIRD (Western Educated Industrial Rich and Democratic)
July 19, 2012 Christianity Today
modern liberals lack the full range of moral instincts possessed by conservatives and traditional religious believers
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Thou Shalt Not Put Evolutionary Theory to a Test
July 18, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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On Phylogenies and Analogies
July 18, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Peter Higgs: Boson discovery like being hit by a wave
July 18, 2012 New Scientist, n.2874, p.28-29
it has been a week to remember says the man who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson
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Earth's water piggy-backed on asteroids, not comets
July 18, 2012 New Scientist, n.2874, p.17
isotopes of hydrogen in meteorites hint that Earth's water did not come from far out in the solar system
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Was America first colonised by two cultures at once?
July 18, 2012 New Scientist, n.2874, p.10
tools and stools from a cave in Oregon suggest that there were two societies in America 14,000 years ago
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The Fragmented Field of Paleoanthropology
July 16, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Variation: Evolution's White Hot Furnace?
July 16, 2012 PRWeb
For Darwin it lay in natural selection. The “Modern Synthesis” relocated it to genetic mutation. A contrarian evolutionist relocates it to wherever variations in living creatures are created.
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Genetic entropy and human lifespans
July 15, 2012 Creation Ministries International
If the human genome is degrading, shouldn’t lifespans be getting shorter?
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Design in Nature?
July 14, 2012 Cambridge Conference
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American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting
July 14, 2012 San Diego, California
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13th century volcano mystery may be solved
July 14, 2012 Science News, v.182, n.1, p.12
Indonesia implicated as location of biggest eruption in last seven millennia
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The "Ancestor of All Dinosaurs" Might Have Had Feathers Dinofuzz
July 13, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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5-mile-long landslide in Alaska national park; warming eyed as possible culprit
July 13, 2012 NBC News
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Genes Suggest Three Groups Peopled the New World
July 13, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6091, p.144
the most comprehensive genetic study to date concludes that Native Americans descend from at least three groups of ancestors from Asia, although these groups intermingled extensively once in the New World
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Higgs Boson Makes Its Debut After Decades-Long Search
July 13, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6091, p.141-143
last week's announcement that physicists at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, had discovered the Higgs boson could mark the end of the road for particle physics
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Video: To Dawkins's Dismay, a "Darwinian Physician" Goes Off-Message
July 12, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Surprise Human-Ancestor Find -- Key Fossils Hidden in Lab Rock
July 12, 2012 National Geographic News
single tooth tipped researchers off to a bonanza right under their noses
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I was sued for libel under an unjust law
July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.141
Nature reporter Quirin Schiermeier explains how one of his stories saw him face a High Court challenge -- and win
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Libel win reveals need for reform
July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.149
campaigners in Britain argue for public-interest defence
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Victory for responsible reporting
July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.139
a High Court case highlights the inadequacies of England's libel laws and should be used as an impetus for major reform
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Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians
July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.231-234
this phylogenomic study shows that core muscle proteins were already present in unicellular organisms before the origin of multicellular animals, and supports a convergent evolutionary model for striated muscles in whic
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Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls
July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.223-226
the bird skull arose from the nonavian dinosaur skull by several episodes of paedomorphosis in which descendants resemble the juveniles of their ancestors
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Creationist victory: Evolution blackout in South Korea
July 12, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.171
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Stephen Hawking trials device that reads his mind
July 12, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.4
a device that recognises brain activity associated with imagined movements could ultimately let Hawking communicate by thought alone
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With New Research, the Genetic Code Looks More and More Like a Deliberate Choice
July 11, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Beyond Higgs: Deviant decays hint at exotic physics
July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873
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1 Big Migration Spawned Most--but Not All--Indigenous Americans
July 11, 2012 Scientific American
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Hominins did not need boats to settle islands
July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.15
simulations suggest that relatively distant islands might have been settled by accidental castaways rather than by skilled mariners
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Growth of Earth's core may hint at magnetic reversal
July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.14
lopsided growth of the Earth's core could help predict when the planet's geomagnetic field will flip, leaving it exposed to dangerous solar winds
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Americas saw three waves of ancient settlers
July 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2873, p.12
new DNA analysis backs up linguistic evidence that humans reached North America in three initial waves, not one
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Machine Revolution: More Details Emerge on ATP Synthase and Its Exquisite Design
July 10, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago
July 10, 2012 Ted E. Bunch, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), v.109, n.28, p.E1903-E1912
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What compels people to give their money away?
July 10, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.27
meet Pamala Wiepking, who studies what makes philanthropists tick, and tells us why women, the elderly and the poor are more generous
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From Atheist to Creationist
July 9, 2012 Uncommon Descent
nuclear chemist Jay Wile
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Encouraging news from South Korea
July 9, 2012 National Center for Science Education
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How global warming is driving our weather wild
July 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.32-37
not only is global weather becoming much more extreme, it is becoming even more extreme than anyone expected
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As freak weather becomes the norm, we need to adapt
July 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.5
thanks to global warming, our weather is getting even more extreme than climate scientists predicted -- and we're doing a lousy job of preparing for it
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Lignin: The Enigma Remains
July 6, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Human Origins and the Fossil Record: What Does the Evidence Say?
July 6, 2012 Evolution News & Views