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Why Mainstream Media Can No Longer Really Fight Censorship
February 27, 2024 Mind Matters
Whether they realize it or not, by accepting funds in order to survive, the MSM will gradually become agencies of government
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Could Our Minds Be Bigger Than Even a Multiverse?
February 28, 2024 Mind Matters
The relationship between information, entropy, and probability suggests startling possibilities. If you find the math hard, a face-in-the-clouds illustration works too
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Why science relies too much on mathematics
February 24, 2024 New Scientist
Mathematics is at the heart of modern science but we shouldn’t forget other ways to reason, says author and researcher
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Is the human brain really the most complex object in the universe?
February 21, 2024 New Scientist
There are 86 billion neurons in your brain, roughly the same number as there are galaxies in the observable universe. Whether the mind is more complex than the cosmos, however, is up for debate
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Huge set of galaxies is set to form largest cluster in known universe
February 26, 2024 New Scientist
Astronomers have spotted a gargantuan protocluster -- the primordial beginnings of a galaxy cluster -- by searching near a quasar in the early universe
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News Update/Commentary
Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies
February 27, 2024 Science Daily
The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater experimentation with instruments from different cultures.
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News Update/Commentary
High resolution techniques reveal clues in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass
February 21, 2024 Science Daily
Research team analyses organic material from the early Earth tracing its origin and composition
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Climate Crisis or Media Hype? Investigating the Reality of Earth's Climate
February 27, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Cherry-Picked Climate Data
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Darwin’s Bluff Is a Number 1 New Release on Amazon!
February 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Burials Reveal Prehistoric Cultures Valued Children with Down Syndrome
February 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest
February 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
To Dance at Two Weddings
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The Information Age Has Forgotten Formation
February 27, 2024 Mind Matters
We need more than mere information. We need practices, habits, and experiences that will positively shape who we become.
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Why Can't Our Memories Be “Stored" in the Brain?
February 26, 2024 Mind Matters
The image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but it is not relevant to how the human mind works
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Near Death: Why Corroborated NDEs Can't Just Be Explained Away
February 26, 2024 Mind Matters
In some cases, Gary Habermas recounts, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurate
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“The Biblical Cosmos" -- sample chapters
January, 2014 Cascade Books
A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible
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Science creep is a menace
February 26, 2024 Washington Examiner
“Who is a scientist?” The answers “ranged from very narrow (just people who are doing or planning research) all the way to very broad (every living human).”
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Are non-protein coding RNAs junk or treasure?
February 13, 2024 BioEssays
An attempt to explain and reconcile opposing viewpoints of whether the human genome is mostly transcribed into non-functional or functional RNAs
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The Y Chromosome Is Vanishing
February 23, 2024 Science Alert
a new sex gene may be the future of men
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The incredible shrinking human genome
February 13, 2024 YouTube
The nature of the genome has consistently surprised people, but mostly because they applied Darwinian concepts to it. Instead, the genome is a wonderful testimony to the engineering prowess of God, who built something unexpected.
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A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution
February 26, 2024 YouTube
The species we recognise as our own -- anatomically modern humans -- has existed for only 300,000 years, a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. And yet during that time our species has been shaped by strong evolutionary forces
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A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
February 26, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into disarray. But physicists are now discovering that the pull of disorder may not be so easily overcome.
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How Did Humans Evolve to Use Everyday Tools?
February 26, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine
An anthropologist explains why we experience many objects, from tennis rackets to cars, as extensions of our bodies
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News Update/Commentary
Revealing what makes bacteria life-threatening
February 21, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that ‘bad' bacteria can't make cellulose on their cell surface, ultimately leading to severe disease
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Specified Complexity Made Simple
February 26, 2024
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The 4 biggest questions about alien life, answered by an astrobiologist
February 25, 2024 Science Focus, BBC
Scientists are becoming increasingly optimistic that extraterrestrial life is out there. Could we finally be on the brink of finding it?
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Ten Evolutionary Fairytales
February 26, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Responding to evolutionary propaganda
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Year of the Dragon: Real Dragons Lived
February 26, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists -- not cryptozoologists -- are calling this beast a real dragon
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In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology
February 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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If AI's Don't Know What They're Doing, Can We Hope To Explain It?
February 23, 2024 Mind Matters
With AI, we have a world of powerful, useful, but entirely opaque systems. We don’t know why they make decisions and neither do they
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Retracted Paper Is a Compelling Case for Reform
February 23, 2024 Mind Matters
The credibility of science is being undermined by misuse of the tools created by scientists. Here's an example from an economics paper I was asked to comment on
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So Who Are Today's Disinformation Police?
February 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Social scientists are striving to develop ways to blunt the force of information that governments would rather the public did not know or heed
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Near-Death: What People Learn When They Are (Briefly) Dead
February 25, 2024 Mind Matters
In this excerpt, Prof Gary Habermas reports that sometimes the returned experiencer says that someone else has died -- but the official news only comes later
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Astrophysicist: Don't Say That Chatbots “Hallucinate"
February 26, 2024 Mind Matters
Adam Frank points out that human-type “hallucination” is not at all what drives a chatbot to claim that the Russians sent bears into space
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Why Doesn't God Just Do Something Dramatic To Prove He Exists?
February 25, 2024 Mind Matters
The Divine Hiddenness argument for atheism, espoused by Matt Dillahunty, is that, if a perfectly loving God existed, reasonable unbelief would be impossible
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Prof: There's a Growing Number of Verified Near-Death Experiences
February 25, 2024 Mind Matters
Gary Habermas notes more than 110 NDEs where experiencers’ detailed reports of what they saw when they were flatlined have been corroborated later
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Geological evidence of a worldwide flood
March 2, 2021 YouTube
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Is Tiktaalik really an evolutionary transition?
February 23, 2024 YouTube
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The quantum world: Dreams and delusions
February 24, 2024 YouTube
From string theory to quantum gravity and quantum computers, the quantum discourse is all the buzz in physics and beyond. But what is possible and what mere fantasy? Can we bring together relativity and quantum mechanics?
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Prebiotically plausible chemoselective pantetheine synthesis in water
February 22, 2024 Science, v.383, n.6685, p.911-918
The route uses nitrile chemistry common to other prebiotic syntheses and thus fits into a broader picture for prebiotic cyanosulfidic reactions that are likely candidates for the chemistry that gave rise to life on early Earth.
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Cosmic Dust Could Have Helped Get Life Going on Earth
February 24, 2024 Universe Today
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We Could Snoop on Extraterrestrial Communications Networks
February 22, 2024 Universe Today
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Baleen whales evolved a unique larynx to communicate but cannot escape human noise
February 21, 2024 phys.org
since whale songs were first discovered more than 50 years ago, it remained unknown how baleen whales produce their complex vocalizations -- until now
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Creation, Evolution, and Catholicism
February 15, 2024 Crisis Magazine
Man has always wondered about where we have come from and how we were created. Religions have given various answers, and in recent centuries so has science. How does a Catholic evaluate these claims in light of our faith?
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Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began?
February 22, 2024 Big Think
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn't mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
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The Cosmic California Megastorm
August 12, 2022 New York Times
A different ‘Big One' is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.
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JWST Is Tracking Down the Cosmic Origins of Earth’s Water
February 23, 2024 Scientific American
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets
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Where Did Humans Evolve? (Probably Not Where You’re Thinking)
February 22, 2024 Atlas Obscura
For decades, East Africa was considered the birthplace of our species. Fossils from Morocco suggest otherwise.
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Probe of NSF Over ‘Brazen Attempt’ To Censor Free Speech
February 23, 2024 Daily Wire
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is facing pressure from Senate Republicans after a report revealed efforts to combat alleged misinformation.
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How long will life persist in our Universe?
February 23, 2024 Big Think
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
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News Update/Commentary
Three years later, search for life on Mars continues
February 22, 2024 Science Daily
Science team discovers evidence of hydrothermal systems using Perseverance rover