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• South Korea to Reconsider Plan to Drop Evolution Examples from Textbooks

  July 6, 2012 Rachel Nuwer Science

• Prominent Turkish Academic Who Advocated Secular Reforms Arrested

  July 6, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6090, p.23

  the former head of Turkey's Council of Higher Education, Kemal Gürüz, has been arrested as part of an inquiry by Turkey's conservative government into what's known as the "postmodern coup" of 1997

• Magazine Article

  Recommended: Homo Mysterious

  July 6, 2012 Anna Kuchment Scientific American

• News Update/Commentary

  Giant dark matter bridge between galaxy clusters discovered

  July 5, 2012 MSNBC

  finding supports of the standard theory of structure formation of the universe

• Palaeoanthropology: The ancestral dinner table

  July 5, 2012 Margaret J. Schoeninger Nature, v.487, p.42-43

  the finding challenges ideas of why and how the human lineage split from the ancestors of extant apes

• The diet of Australopithecus sediba

  July 5, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.90-93

  data for 2-million-year-old hominins from South Africa, show that they consumed a mostly C3 diet that contrasts with previously described diets of other early hominin species

• Turkey cracks down on academic freedom

  July 5, 2012 Nature, v.487, p.19-20

  external groups hope scrutiny will restrain government

• The evolutionary mysteries of religion and orgasms

  July 4, 2012 Kate Douglas New Scientist, n.2872, p.48

  these and other puzzles

• How much can you trust your own memory?

  July 4, 2012 David Robson New Scientist, n.2872, p.47

  the brain continually rewrites our past -- so how accurate are our recollections?

• Titan's tides reveal hidden ocean that could host life

  July 4, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.17

  combined with its organic resources, abundant liquid water could make Saturn's moon prime real estate for alien life -- but that depends on the state of the ocean

• Oldest pottery hints at cooking's ice-age origins

  July 4, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.14

  fragments of pots from a Chinese cave are 20,000 years old, and may have been used to cook food during the depths of the last ice age

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists edge closer to proving existence of elusive particle

  July 3, 2012 CNN

  Higgs boson

• Mission to the mantle: Drilling through Earth's crust

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.38-41

  It's geology's moonshot. A bold plan to drill into Earth's interior promises to solve profound mysteries about our planet -- and might even find life down there.

• Miracle buster: Why I traced holy water to leaky drain

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.27

  Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the "holy" water dripping from a statue of Christ came from a blocked drain

• Gotcha! Higgs find will kick off new era of knowledge

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.8-9

  the 50-year particle hunt looks to be almost over but the Higgs games are only just beginning

• Islamist threat to Timbuktu's ancient scientific texts

  July 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2872, p.7

  The Ansar Dine islamist group is destroying historic tombs in the Malian town. An ancient collection of Islamic texts could be their next target.

• News Update/Commentary

  27 must-sees on this incredible planet

  July 3, 2012 Anthea Gerrie CNN

• News Update/Commentary

  27 must-sees on this incredible planet

  July 3, 2012 Anthea Gerrie CNN

• The Lignin Enigma

  July 2, 2012 Ann Gauger Evolution News & Views

• Pangaea or Plate Tectonics? (YouTube)

  July 2, 2012 adventlife

• Rise of the feathered dinosaurs

  July 2, 2012 Nature News & Comment

  an exceptionally well-preserved fossil hints that feathers might have been a feature of all dinosaurs

• What kind of bang was the big bang?

  July 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.32-37

  There's trouble at the start of time: the theory of cosmic inflation has got way out of control. Can quantum theory and holograms tame it?

• Why Extramarital Sex Can Kill

  July 2, 2012 Scientific American

  affairs increase the risk of sudden death, with distressing guilt potentially playing a role in cardiovascular disease

• Book

  Acts & Facts, v.41, n.7 (pdf)

  July 1, 2012 Institute for Creation Research

• Book

  Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

  July 1, 2012 Norton (Liveright)

  see also Amazon

• Book

  Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

  July 1, 2012 Profile Books

  see also Amazon

• Book

  When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education

  July 1, 2012 Wiley (Jossey-Bass)

  see also Amazon

• Life in an Icy Inferno

  July 1, 2012 National Geographic

  in the topsy-turvy world of Antarctica’s Mt. Erebus, we’ve come to one of the coldest spots on Earth to search for beings that thrive in blistering heat

• Book

  Evolution Impossible

  July 1, 2012 New Leaf Publishing (Master Books)

  see also Amazon

• Book

  Extreme Cosmos: A Guided Tour of the Fastest, Brightest, Hottest, Heaviest, Oldest, and Most Amazing Aspects of Our Universe

  July 1, 2012 Perigee (Penguin)

  see also Amazon

• Book

  Au. sediba: Another Human "Ancestor" Bites the _Dust Bark

  June 29, 2012 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Views

• Oldest Impact Crater on Earth Discovered

  June 29, 2012 Our Amazing Planet Staff Yahoo! News

• On the Invention of Pottery

  June 29, 2012 Gideon Shelach Science, v.336, n.6089, p.1644-1645

  what was the function of early Asian pottery, which predates the invention of agriculture by about 10,000 years

• Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

  June 29, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6089, p.1696-1700

  shards from a cave in China imply that humans had invented pottery and used it for cooking by about 20,000 years ago

• Old and Groovy

  June 29, 2012 Mary L. Droser and James G. Gehling Science, v.336, n.6089, p.1646-1647

  the discovery of furrowed and backfilled trace fossils, claimed to be at least 585 million years old, raises questions about their origins

• Bilaterian Burrows and Grazing Behavior at >585 Million Years Ago

  June 29, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6089, p.1693-1696

  Neoproterozoic trace fossils from Uruguay indicate that early animals appeared at a time between global glaciations

• Dennett on Competence without Comprehension

  June 28, 2012 William A. Dembski Evolution News & Views

• Cavemen Bones Yield Oldest Modern Human DNA

  June 28, 2012 Charles Choi Yahoo! News (LiveScience)

• The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

  June 28, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.527-531

  sequencing of the bonobo genome shows that more than three per cent of the human genome is more closely related to either the bonobo genome or the chimpanzee genome than those genomes are to each other

• Three-dimensional limb joint mobility in the early tetrapod Ichthyostega

  June 28, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.523-526

  insights into an important step in vertebrate evolution--the transition from swimming to walking

• Phylogeny: Rewriting evolution

  June 28, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.460-462

  tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree

• SETI chief still waiting for ET to call

  June 28, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.28-29

  After 35 years of searching, Jill Tarter is retiring as Earth's top alien hunter. She tells why alien rule of our planet would be benign.

• Banking outage gives tiny glimpse of cybergeddon

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.5

  the five-day banking brownout in the UK is tiny compared to the scenarios some cybersecurity experts fear

• Lonesome George dies but his subspecies genes survive

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.4

  the last Pinta Island tortoise, rarest animal in the world and Galápagos icon, has died

• Eats bark, fruit and leaves: Diet of ancient human

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.12

  Australopithecus sediba, a 2-million-year-old member of the human family, had a diet unlike other hominins alive at the time

• Is god's mercy to blame for high crime rates?

  June 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.15

  fear of eternal damnation in hell could act as a deterrent, but belief in a forgiving god may make crime more tempting

• What Happens to Consciousness When We Die

  June 27, 2012 Scientific American

  the death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry

• Duly Knotted: A Problem for Evolution

  June 26, 2012 Evolution News & Views

• Volcano warning for Edinburgh’s citizens

  June 26, 2012 Shân Ross Scotsman

• Genes reveal grain of truth to Queen of Sheba story

  June 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.15

  about 3000 years ago, there was an influx of genes from the near East into Ethiopia -- around the same time the African Queen of Sheba purportedly met King Solomon