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Evolution could generate new semiconducting structures
June 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2871, p.9
the proteins that help sponges generate their silica skeletons have been harnessed to form new semiconducting structures
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Theory Creep: The Quiet Shift in Evolutionary Thought
June 25, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Life: is it inevitable or just a fluke?
June 25, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870
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Missing Link for Wonky-Eyed Fish Discovered
June 25, 2012 Yahoo! News (LiveScience)
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Can Random Mutations Create New Complex Features? A Response to TalkOrigins
June 22, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Sorry Einstein, the universe needs quantum uncertainty
June 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.8
remove one of quantum theory's weirdest components, and you end up with a perpetual motion machine
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Magazine Article
Did You Ever Wonder Whether Rats Laugh?
June 22, 2012 Scientific American
a neuroscientist explains how he discovered serendipitously the guffaw of a rodent
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Rats Laugh, but Not Like Humans
June 22, 2012 Scientific American
Do animals other than humans have a sense of humor? Maybe so
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Open Mouth. Insert Thumb. Suck Vigorously.
June 21, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Giant Marsupial Graveyard Unearthed Down Under
June 21, 2012 LiveScience
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The wasteful quest for immortality
June 21, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.29
Mary Midgley, the nonagenarian philosopher, believes that living forever is overrated: quality of life -- not quantity -- is more important
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Why haven't bald men gone extinct?
June 21, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.44-47
even as we get to grips with the biology of baldness, the shiny pate remains a real evolutionary mystery
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Angry lizard starts fights for no reason
June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.16
most animals don't start fights with other species as there's simply no point -- but nobody told the slap-happy Dalmatian wall lizard
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What a way to go: prehistoric turtles died during sex
June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.15
pairs of 47-million-year-old turtles are the only vertebrates known to have been fossilised while mating
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Oldest confirmed cave art is a single red dot
June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.10-11
a symbol on the wall of a Spanish cave is over 40,000 years old, meaning it could have been drawn by Neanderthals, or by the very first humans to come out of Africa
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Higgsteria as trouble brews for standard model
June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.4
even confirmation of last year's tentative signals may not complete our view of the universe's particles and forces
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Is there an explanation for existence?
June 20, 2012 New Scientist, n.2870, p.48
spans physics, philosophy and literature to examine the mystery of why there is something rather than nothing
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Fossil bounty hunters' days may be numbered
June 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.28-29
there's fresh hope in the battle to curb poaching of important dinosaur fossils in Mongolia
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Magazine Article
How Cooperation Influences Evolution--and the Process of Science
June 19, 2012 Scientific American
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Magazine Article
Lending a Helping Paw: When Animals Cooperate [slide show]
June 19, 2012 Scientific American
humans are not alone in aiding others
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Why We Help: The Evolution of Cooperation
June 19, 2012 Scientific American
far from being a nagging exception to the rule of evolution, cooperation has been one of its primary architects
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Ten Major Court Cases about Evolution and Creationism
June 18, 2012 news24 (South Africa)
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How much cheating is alright?
June 18, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.30-31
we're all prone to dishonesty, says Dan Ariely, but to avoid another financial meltdown, bankers really need to learn from the psychology of cheating
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A signature of cosmic-ray increase in ad 774–775 from tree rings in Japan
June 14, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.240-242
a rapid increase in the 14C content of cedar tree rings is about 20 times larger than the change attributed to ordinary solar modulation; neither a solar flare nor a local supernova is likely to have been res
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Religion as cuckoldry defence
June 14, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.160
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Weighing extinct animals
June 14, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.160
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On the origin of evolution
June 13, 2012 New Scientist, n.2869, p.52
how Darwinian evolution was built on a grand ancestry of ideas
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Finally, a Home Where You Can Enjoy the Post-Apocalypse
June 13, 2012 Discover Magazine
when the above-ground world is suffering through some form of cataclysm, you'll be living it up in a hardened bunker under the Kansas soil
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South Korean Textbooks Reject Evolution
June 12, 2012 Time Magazine
opponents of evolution have won a big victory in South Korea's schools
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No, War Is Not Inevitable
June 12, 2012 Discover Magazine
science writer Horgan begs to disagree with E. O. Wilson, saying that war is a cultural development, not an indelible part of our evolutionary heritage
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Is War Inevitable?
June 12, 2012 Discover Magazine
human evolution has been defined by conflict ... war is embedded in our very nature
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A Better Way to Talk About Faith
June 12, 2012 New York Times (blog)
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Defending evolution theory
June 8, 2012 Korea Times
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Is Young-Earth Creationism Biblical?
June 8, 2012 Huffington Post
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Stone Age long barrows housed living as well as dead
June 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.32-33
did Neolithic people really use earthen long barrows as cemeteries, or did the structures have a living purpose
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South Korea surrenders to creationist demands
June 7, 2012 Nature, v.486, p.14
publishers set to remove examples of evolution from high-school textbooks
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This Is the Way the World Ends? Volcanoes Could Darken World
June 6, 2012 Yahoo! News (ABC News)
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Evolution Under Assault in South Korea’s Schools
June 6, 2012 Wired UK
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Evolving on many levels
June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.48
linking gene expression to artistic movements, Coen argues that these processes follow a common set of rules
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A palaeontologist's Alaskan adventure
June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.50
big digs in the Arctic reveal that it was inhabited by dinosaurs year-round and that the region was pleasantly temperate
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Lucky you! Accidents of evolution that made us human
June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.34-35
evolution is a game of chance ... six of the winning mutations that helped humans hit the jackpot
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Vast cosmic event leaves record in ancient trees
June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.17
tree rings formed in the 8th century record a peak in cosmic ray activity -- but what was the cause
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Autism study strengthens idea that we read God's mind
June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.16
people with autism are less likely to believe in God -- possibly because they have difficulty reading other's intentions
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Hawking's 'Escher-verse' could be theory of everything
June 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2868, p.8-9
Stephen Hawking has come up with a way to describe the universe that suggests it may have the same geometry as mind-boggling images by M. C. Escher
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Creationist success in South Korea?
June 5, 2012 National Center for Science Education
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Book
Science and Human Origins
June 1, 2012 Discovery Institute Press
see also Amazon
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Survey: Nearly half of Americans subscribe to creationist view of human origins
June 1, 2012 CNN (blog)
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God's creativity trumps evolution (letter to editor)
June 1, 2012 Lebanon Daily News
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.41, n.6 (pdf)
June 1, 2012 Institute for Creation Research
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p.3 — Our Country's Heritage of Faith and Creationism
June 1, 2012 From the Editor