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p.6 — Research at ICR: An Overview
June 1, 2012 Research
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p.8-10 — Of Grackles and Gratitude
June 1, 2012 Real World Apologetics
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p.11-13 — A Universe from Nothing?
June 1, 2012 Impact
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p.16 — An Extraterrestrial Cause for the Flood?
June 1, 2012 Back to Genesis
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p.17 — Big or Small -- Rodents Have Always Been Rodents
June 1, 2012 Back to Genesis
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p.18 — Do Habitats Create Creatures?
June 1, 2012 Back to Genesis
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Book
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
June 1, 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
a lively exploration of the life-and-death cycle in the wild; see also Amazon
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Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network
June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1154-1157
across vertebrates, behaviorally relevant brain regions are remarkably conserved over 450 million years of evolution
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A Rogue Earthquake Off Sumatra
June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1118-1119
a magnitude 8.6 strike-slip earthquake within an oceanic plate raises fundamental questions about earthquake physics
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Why Is the Solar System So Bizarre?
June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1098
enigmas such as Mercury's makeup (mostly iron core, with a thin veneer of rock) and Uranus's skewed magnetic field continue to bedevil planetary scientists, and no tidy resolution is in sight
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What's the Source of the Most Energetic Cosmic Rays?
June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1096-1097
data taken from detectors in the past few years have provided some clues to the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays but, as yet, no smoking gun
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What Is Dark Energy?
June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1090-1091
the nature of the "dark energy" that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate is now perhaps the most profound mystery in cosmology and astrophysics, and it may remain forever so
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Early Dates for Artistic Europeans
June 1, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6085, p.1086-1087
new radiocarbon dates of artworks found in a cave in southwest Germany suggest to some researchers that certain artistic behaviors emerged first in Europe rather than Africa
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Book
Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life
June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
June 1, 2012 Spiegel & Grau
see also Amazon
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Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
June 1, 2012 University of Chicago Press
see also Amazon
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Alan Turing: Intelligence and life
June 1, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867
a visionary thinker on artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, Turing devised the test that's used to gauge how close machines have come to us
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Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
June 1, 2012 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God
June 1, 2012 Scientific American
faith and intuition are intimately related
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Dating with rare earth elements
May 31, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.551
discovery of human remains in the same layer as fossil mammals
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Evolutionary anthropology: Homo 'incendius'
May 31, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.586-587
human ancestors were using fire much earlier than had been thought
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Time flows uphill for remote Papua New Guinea tribe
May 31, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.14
Who says time has to flow forwards? The Yupno people have a mental timeline that breaks all the rules -- it's not straight, and flows uphill
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Subverting Darwinism from Within: The Quiet Revolution of Mary Jane West-Eberhard
May 30, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Modern Science & Ancient Faith
May 30, 2012 Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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Bottled carbon from Mars bodes well for ancient aliens
May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.17
carbon found in Martian rocks came from magma not alien life forms -- but the presence of reactive carbon raises hope for signs of life on Mars
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Birds got smart by becoming big babes
May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.12
the skulls of birds look just like the skulls of young dinosaurs, suggesting that arrested development was the key to their evolution
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Extra heatwaves could kill 150,000 Americans by 2099
May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.4
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When scientists fight dirty
May 30, 2012 New Scientist, n.2867, p.48
scientists may aspire to objectivity, but they are still prone to bitter rivalries and Machiavellian behaviour
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Would Darwin, If He Rejoined Us, Be a Darwin-Doubter?
May 29, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Germany may be birthplace of European music and art
May 29, 2012 phys.org
the remains of the world's oldest musical instruments and human figurines suggest that music and artistic depictions of the human form may have first developed in Germany around 40,000 years ago
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Antimatter-Powered Supernovae
May 29, 2012 Scientific American
the largest stars die in explosions more powerful than anyone thought possible--some triggered in part by the production of antimatter
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The Right Way to Get It Wrong
May 29, 2012 Scientific American
Most errors are quickly forgotten. Others end up remaking the face of science.
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News to Note
May 26, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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An Avian Magnetometer
May 25, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6084, p.991-992
neurons in the pigeon brain encode information on Earth's magnetic field for orientation and navigation
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The Burdens of Being a Biped
May 25, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6084, p.974
a number of musculoskeletal issues are rooted in our evolutionary history, in particular to the switch to walking upright more than 7 million years ago
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An Evolutionary Theory of Dentistry
May 25, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6084, p.973-975
Why are our teeth so rotten? Biologists point to a mismatch between our diets and lifestyles and those of our ancestors.
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Homegrown Organic Matter Found on Mars, But No Life
May 25, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6084, p.970
researchers have discovered organic matter encased in once-molten martian rocks, demonstrating that the planet has been producing its own organic matter for eons with no help from life
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Fine Art and Music Emerges Earlier Still
May 25, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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How to Liven Up Dead Geology
May 24, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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In Embryo Development, Non-DNA Information Is at Least as Important as DNA
May 24, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Understanding Bayesian Analysis, the Evolution Skeptic's Friend
May 24, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Magazine Article
What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth"
May 23, 2012 Scientific American
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Doomed Worlds: Planets Seen Disrupting, Not Forming
May 23, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Responding to the Challenge that Intelligent Design Lacks a "Mechanism"
May 23, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Hubble to revisit exoplanet puzzle
May 23, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.428
team aims to settle running dispute over mysterious object
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First look at the face of a woman dead for 2000 years
May 23, 2012 New Scientist, n.2866, p.24-25
CT scans have revealed a wealth of information about the Egyptian Rhind mummy, discovered in a tomb dating to 10 BC in the ancient city of Thebes
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RNA breakthrough transforms idea of gene control
May 23, 2012 New Scientist, n.2866, p.16
never-before-seen changes to the genetic code give new insight into how the environment can affect our genes
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Earliest member of giant panda family found in Spain
May 23, 2012 New Scientist, n.2866, p.16
a pair of 11-million-year-old fossilised teeth may have belonged to an ancestor of the giant panda
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Buried microbes exist at limit between life and death
May 23, 2012 New Scientist, n.2866, p.12
sediment 30 metres below the Pacific seafloor is so nutrient-poor that microbes barely fuel their cellular functions -- yet they may be thousands of years old