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Why electronics and AI don’t really save us time
June 19, 2025 Mind Matters
the processes and devices developed to save time proliferate, creating new demands for our attention by their very existence
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MIT Study Associates ChatGPT Use with Cognitive Trouble
June 19, 2025 Mind Matters
The ChatGPT users in the study lost major ground in creativity, memory, and deep thinking
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Philosopher Asks at Nautilus, Is Matter Conscious?
June 19, 2025 Mind Matters
To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. That is a very big admission for neuroscience to make. But the alternative is the void.
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The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory
June 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Monkey Men
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Do Large Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent “Technical Failures”?
June 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinist Reporters Push Old Misinformation
June 19, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
There’s no longer any excuse for scientists or reporters to publish flawed evidence for Darwinism
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Did Orwell’s 1984 Predict the Rise of AI?
June 18, 2025 Mind Matters
A simple act like writing a diary entry emblemizes the struggle to stay human
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Mysterious Ancient Humans Now Have a Face
June 18, 2025 New York Times
Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.
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Why AI Breaks Down Where Human Creativity Begins
June 18, 2025 Mind Matters
Part 1: AI can handle statements that are internally coherent but that is not the same thing as correspondence with reality
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First ever skull from ‘Denisovan’ reveals what ancient people looked like
June 18, 2025 Nature
Ancient proteins and calcified dental plaque identify heavy-browed fossil from China as a Denisovan.
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Neolithic matrilineal society in ancient China
June 18, 2025 Nature
Studies of ancient DNA have found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in China reveals a Neolithic community organized around two maternal clans
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal
June 18, 2025 Nature
All contemporary Eurasians trace most of their ancestry to a small population that dispersed out of Africa about 50,000 years ago. By contrast, fossil evidence attests to earlier migrations out of Africa
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Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight
June 18, 2025 Nature
Experiments suggest moths use the Milky Way to orientate themselves -- plus, evidence that humans expanded into new ecosystems 70,000 years ago.
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These moths use the stars to navigate on an epic migration
June 18, 2025 Nature
Bogong moths migrate hundreds of kilometres and back each year using the southern night sky as their compass.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual
June 18, 2025 Science v.389, n.6761, p.704-707
DNA degrades much faster than other biomolecules such as proteins. Ancient proteomics may enhance our ability to study remains that are older and in environments inhospitable to DNA.
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DNA Can’t be More Than 4,500 Years Old -- Here’s Why
June 18, 2025 Creation Ministries International
DNA is supposedly millions of years old, but can it really survive that long? The evidence suggests otherwise. ... multiple lines of evidence challenge evolutionary timescales.
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The 4 Building Blocks for Life Can't be Made w/o God!
June 18, 2025 YouTube
Dr. Tour, a world-leading synthetic organic chemist at Rice University, has recently been engaged in a series of back-and-forth responses to attacks on his work from YouTube science communicator Dave Farina.
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Just When Human Reason is Most Productive -- AI Makes Things Up
June 18, 2025 Mind Matters
In Part 2, we see how the ability to handle only one type of truth limits AI. AI models are fundamentally untethered from reality
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AI Productivity Hype: The New “Cargo Cult Science”?
June 18, 2025 Mind Matters
Physicist Richard Feynman coined the term to describe imaginary scenarios for success based on simple misunderstanding of realities
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Australian moths use the stars as a compass on 1000-km migrations
June 18, 2025 New Scientist
Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves
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‘Dragon Man’ DNA revelation puts a face to a mysterious group of ancient humans
June 18, 2025 CNN
An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human.
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When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere
June 18, 2025 New York Times
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.
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News Update/Commentary
Defying Darwin: Scientists discover worms rewrote their DNA to survive on land
June 18, 2025 Science Daily
A comparative genome study of earthworms and their marine relatives could challenge Darwin's theory of evolution by showing that worms colonized land in evolutionary jumps.
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Critics Struggle with Evidence Humans and Chimps Are 15 Percent Genetically Different
June 18, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns
June 18, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?
June 17, 2025 YouTube
What can evolution reveal about the developmental history of thinking and feeling? How did cognition and emotion (affect) co-develop over evolutionary time? Can evolution help solve the mystery of consciousness?
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Darwinism Promotes the Disney Effect
June 17, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“If I could talk with the animals, and they could talk to me!”
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Empire of flight
June 17, 2025 Aeon
They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?
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Industrial waste is turning into a new type of rock at ‘unprecedented' speed
June 17, 2025 Live Science
Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form.
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A Conscious Universe?
June 17, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution vs. Creation: Nested Hierarchies
June 17, 2025 Examining Origins
Are nested hierarchies good evidence for evolution? Evolutionary biologist, Dr. Dan Stern Cardinale believes they are. He'll try to help this young earth creationist see the light.
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Indonesian Volcano Erupts, Spewing Ash Miles High
June 17, 2025 New York Times
There were no immediate reports of injury after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki ejected a plume of smoke and ashes on Tuesday night. An eruption there killed 10 people last year.
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Empire of flight
June 17, 2025 Aeon
They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?
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News Update/Commentary
The secret 112-million-year saga of glowing fish
June 17, 2025 Science Daily
Rainbow reefs revealed: Two new studies on marine fish biofluorescence find a close link to coral reefs and a wide range of dazzling colors
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Water, not silicon, has to be the basis of true AI
June 17, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
Real intelligence must be water-based
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Did humans first start using fire to smoke, not cook, meat?
June 16, 2025 Mind Matters
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News Update/Commentary
600-million-year-old body blueprint found in sea anemones
June 16, 2025 Science Daily
New insights into the evolution of the back-belly-axis.
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A universe without dark matter
June 16, 2025 Institute of Art and Ideas
The trouble with the cosmological consensus
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This Fossil Is Valued at Millions of Dollars
June 16, 2025 New York Times
The 150-million-year-old specimen is valued at up to $6 million by Sotheby’s. Some paleontologists worry this auction and earlier ones are driving fossil market speculators.
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Earth’s Phosphorus Supply Chains Revealed
June 16, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is Chimp DNA and Human DNA Really a 99% Match?
June 16, 2025 The Science Dilemma
You’ve probably heard this before: “Humans and chimps share 99% of the same DNA.” But is that number actually correct? Luskin from Discovery Institute unpacks one of the most repeated claims in biology -- and why new research might flip the entire story.
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After the Flood 2: Diversity of Life
June 16, 2025 Let's Talk Creation
Just what are created kinds anyway? The created kind forms a central part of creation biology, and kinds can even be used to construct a simple post-Flood chronology.
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The Field of Consciousness Studies
June 16, 2025 Closer To Truth
What is the current state of the consciousness studies field? What are the major issues and trends? What kinds of experiments are being conducted? What kinds of arguments are being made?
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Science Writer: The Self Is Part of a Conscious Universe
June 16, 2025 Mind Matters
Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism -- the snake that eats its own tail
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Modern Cosmology Staggers
June 16, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If previous findings knocked cosmologists dizzy, the latest may be the knockout punch
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Bone, Skin, Claw Lasted…150 Million Years?
June 16, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Impossible signal from deep beneath Antarctic ice baffles physicists
June 16, 2025 Science Daily
The unusual radio pulses were detected by the ANITA experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio waves from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.
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The Milky Way's black hole may be spinning at top speed
June 16, 2025 New Scientist
Using machine learning to analyse data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers found the black hole at the centre of our galaxy is spinning almost as fast as possible
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The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology
June 16, 2025 New Scientist
There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of “memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe. If true, it could explain the nature of dark matter and much more
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The Genes That Shaped Pets and Domesticated Livestock
June 16, 2025 The Scientist
Comparative genomics revealed genetic differences between wild and domestic animals, highlighting traits influenced by human selection.