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A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans
March 27, 2024 bioRxiv
Understanding the series of admixture events and population size history leading to modern humans is central to human evolutionary genetics.
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The Spiritual Materialist
March 30, 2023 nautil.us
How transcendent feelings arise from the forces of Darwinian natural selection.
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Video
Everyone Should Watch Climate
March 27, 2024 Wintery Knight
The Movie to Understand Climate Change
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‘Best view ever’: observatory will map Big Bang’s afterglow in new detail
March 22, 2024 Nature
The Simons Observatory will search for signs of gravitational waves that originated from the Big Bang.
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Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation
March 28, 2024 CNN
It’s messing with time itself
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A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming
March 27, 2024 Nature
The historical association of time with the rotation of Earth has meant that Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) closely follows this rotation1. Because the rotation rate is not constant, UTC contains discontinuities (leap seconds)
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Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation -- and could affect how we keep time
March 27, 2024 Nature
The effect of melting polar ice could delay the need for a ‘leap second’ by three years.
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Melting ice solves leap-second problem -- for now
March 27, 2024 Nature
Humans’ effect on the polar ice sheets is slowing Earth’s rotation, posing challenges for its alignment with the official time standard. Two researchers discuss the science behind the slowdown and the impact it has on timekeeping.
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How climate change is affecting global timekeeping
March 27, 2024 Nature
Melting polar ice could delay major time adjustment, and the strange connection between brain inflammation and memory.
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How did the Big Bang get its name? Here’s the real story
March 25, 2024 Nature
Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins -- 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change
March 27, 2024 Nature
Biodiversity faces unprecedented threats from rapid global change. Signals of biodiversity change come from time-series abundance datasets for thousands of species over large geographic and temporal scales.
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News Update/Commentary
Not unique to humans but uniquely human
March 27, 2024 Science Daily
researchers identify factor involved in brain expansion in humans
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More Ignorance About Bird Flight Admitted
March 28, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Fifty years of speculation has offered no solution to how birds fly
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Video
The MYTH of Junk DNA
March 26, 2024 YouTube
Is the idea of junk DNA one of the biggest mistakes in science in our lifetime? Only about 1% of our DNA codes for proteins, so what is the other 99% doing?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Expected Algorithmic Specified Complexity
October 24, 2019 BIO-Complexity
Algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) is an information metric that measures meaning in an event, based on a chance hypothesis and a context.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Independence Conservation and Evolutionary Algorithms
January 20, 2020 Communications of the Blyth Institute, v.2, n.1, p.32-35
Levin titled his law ‘independence conservation’ which he considered fairly obvious, describing it as “Torturing an uninformed witness cannot give information about the crime!”
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A Reckoning for Darwinism as “Junk DNA” Flops
March 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nautilus dismisses the importance of genes
March 26, 2024 Why Evolution Is True
in an abysmal article
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Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”
March 26, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Meet the Materialist Magicians
March 27, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The cell is not a factory
March 26, 2024 Aeon
Scientific narratives project social hierarchies onto nature. That’s why we need better metaphors to describe cellular life
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The End of Species
March 25, 2024 nautil.us
Why it’s time for new ways of naming life.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Contrasting theories of life
February, 2020 Biosystems, v.188
Historical context, current theories. In search of an ideal theory
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Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints
March 26, 2024 New Scientist
A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting prehistoric people saw the footprints as meaningful
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News Update/Commentary
Bees use antennae to decode hive mates' dances in the dark
March 25, 2024 Science Daily
Scientists have discovered how honeybees can decipher dances by their hive mates that relay directions to food.
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The unexpected reasons why human childhood is extraordinarily long
March 25, 2024 New Scientist
Why childhood is so protracted has long been mysterious, now a spate of archaeological discoveries suggest an intriguing explanation
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News Update/Commentary
Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant
March 22, 2024 Science Daily
Spiders that disguise themselves as ants live in many locations around the globe but until now most had been able to avoid detection from fossil researchers as well as predators.
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News Update/Commentary
Natural recycling at the origin of life
March 22, 2024 Science Daily
A new study shows how the chemical properties of RNA molecules could have facilitated the emergence of complex life
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News Update/Commentary
Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought
March 21, 2024 Science Daily
New fossil ray species discovered in Bavarica, Germany: Aellopobatis bavarica from the Late Jurassic
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Rethink of Genetics Supports ID over Darwinism
March 26, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Out with junk DNA. Out with the Central Dogma. Make way for design thinking.
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Is Evolution’s “Third Way” Natural?
March 25, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
And Are We Allowed to Reference It?
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Seriously, how ‘functional' is the human genome?
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk?
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Lee Cronin & Assembly Theory | Nick Lane and the politics of science
March 22, 2024 YouTube
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Why is life left-handed? We might finally know
March 22, 2024 YouTube
Scientists have been trying to figure out why organic molecules have the particular orientation they do -- so-called “handedness”. It seems like one of those questions that we'll never answer, but to my surprise recently there's been some progress
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Why Fine-tuning Seems Designed
March 23, 2024 YouTube
Because the laws of physics would have to be so carefully calibrated to enable stars and planets to form and life to emerge, it would seem to require some kind of design. But there are other explanations.
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Is There Any Evidence That Our Universe Is One of Many?
March 24, 2024 Mind Matters
Philosopher Nancey Murphy recently confessed that she had to adjust her thinking based on the idea that multiverse theory “had progressed.” But has it?
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Book
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
March, 2024 MIT Press
A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. | See Also Amazon
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies
February 18, 2024 Public Understanding of Science
Benevolence beliefs
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How Evolution Matters To Our Health
March 22, 2024 Skeptic
a practicing physician explores how we evolved to be healthy
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Dogs can understand the meaning of nouns
March 22, 2024 The Guardian
Study confirms our canine companions can grasp more than simple commands -- or at least for items they care about
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The Turing Tests of today are mistaken
March 20, 2024 iai News
How Goodhart's law holds back AI
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A Journey Into the Brain
March 22, 2024 The Scientist
With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.
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News Update/Commentary
How butterflies choose mates: Gene controls preferences
March 21, 2024 Science Daily
scientists identified a gene that is directly linked to evolutionary changes in a visually guided behavior
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News Update/Commentary
Signs of life would be detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons
March 22, 2024 Science Daily
if life similar to that on Earth exists on Saturn or Jupiter, this life should be detectable by instruments launching in the fall
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Darwin Was a Loser Before He Was Recast as a Legend
March 25, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The Myth was not the man. A new book shows this in Darwin’s own words.
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Moroccan Dinosaurs in Marine Rocks, Too
March 25, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Is the Multiverse Scientific Fact or Mere Fancy?
March 24, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon
March 22, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Video
Did the Universe Begin?
March 21, 2024 YouTube
Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning.
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NASA’s Mars rover probes ancient shorelines for signs of life
March 13, 2024 Science
Plans for Perseverance to explore past crater rim may be in jeopardy