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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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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
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‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time
March 20, 2024 CNN
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Heavy Element Quandary in Stars Worsened by New Nuclear Data
March 21, 2024 Physics Magazine
A widening gap between the cerium-140 abundance predicted by theories and that measured in observations of certain stars indicates a potential need for updated models of element formation.
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Scientists just discovered a new way cells control their genes -- it's called ‘backtracking'
March 21, 2024 Live Science
Scientists have discovered that, when a DNA-reading enzyme moves backwards along a gene, it may do so to help control when the gene is turned on.
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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
From the many worlds interpretation to panpsychism, theories of reality often sound absurd. Here’s how you can figure out which ones to take seriously
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How logic and reasoning can fail as scientific tools
March 21, 2024 Big Think
In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum' shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
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Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy waterway that preserved everything inside the houses including tools, fabric, cooking pots and more
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Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats
March 18, 2024 New Scientist
A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carnivore teeth, suggesting that both hominins and felids feasted on its meat
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Planet-eating stars hint at hidden chaos in the Milky Way
March 20, 2024 Nature
A handful of middle-aged stars seem to have gobbled up a planet, challenging assumptions about the stability of such systems.
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Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language
March 19, 2024 Nature
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Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
March 13, 2024 Nature
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary-science conference this week, researchers begged to differ.
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The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved
March 19, 2024 Nature
For a century, scientists pondered whether bird flight evolved by animals gliding down from trees or by creatures running and flapping from the ground up. A landmark 1974 paper reset the debate to focus on the evolution of the flight stroke instead.
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Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care
March 19, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Ancient humans possessed sophisticated knowledge of the properties of the stones they used to make tools.
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Passing Stars Shorten Earth’s Time Horizon
March 19, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Stars in the solar neighborhood could jostle planetary orbits, making it harder to turn back the clock and examine Earth’s orbital or climate history.
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Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes
March 18, 2024 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Scientists are making progress on illuminating how undersea sedimentary deposits called turbidites form and on reconstructing the complex histories they record. But it’s not an easy task.
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Origin of Bird Flight: Pick Your Miracles
March 21, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
(1) Powered flight arose only once; (2) No! it arose many times!
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Plant Receptors Are Designed to Control Immunity and Development
March 21, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity
March 5, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory
March 21, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin
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How Free Will Probes Mind and Consciousness
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Free will seems so obvious, yet defies physical explanation. Free will probes consciousness by examining what it means to pick, choose, select, decide in the closed physical system of the world. But is ‘free will’ just a trick of the brain?
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Why Is the Origin of Life a Problem for Physics?
March 19, 2024 YouTube
Walker is most interested in whether or not there are “laws of life" related to how information structures the physical world that could universally describe life here on Earth and on other planets.
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Did the first cells evolve in soda lakes?
March 19, 2024 EurekAlert!
soda lakes on the early Earth could have supported key features of protocell development, with RNA copying and ribozyme activity taking place in the dry season and vesicle formation occurring during the wet season
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Carbon Dating at Gezer and the “Legend" of Saul, David, and Solomon
March 18, 2024 Associates for Biblical Research
When all the evidence is in, it is clear that the archaeological findings and recent radiocarbon dates demonstrate the detailed historical accuracy of the Bible with regard to Gezer. Those who would challenge the biblical record do so in vain.
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Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting
March 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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The world is both subjective and real
March 19, 2024 iai News
Endorsing perspectivalism
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Anti-Human Intelligence
March 20, 2024 Law & Liberty
We are rushing heedlessly into a world in which thinking men become ever more like insects.
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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness
March 20, 2024 New Scientist
Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probability theory and the extremes of randomness
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‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
March 19, 2024 Nature
Modified protein-design tool could make it easier to tackle challenging drug targets -- but AI antibodies are still a long way from reaching the clinic.
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Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible
March 20, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Darwinism Rationalizes Bad Habits
March 19, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
You can’t help yourself. You’re a victim of selection.