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"Seismology: The secret chatter of giant faults"
July 14, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.312-313
an imminent swarm of tiny quakes beneath western North America could help seismologists prepare for a big one -- but only if they can learn to interpret the tremors
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Quantum entanglement holds together life's blueprint
July 15, 2010 New Scientist, n.2769, p.9
the double helix shape of DNA may be down to the quantum entanglement of its base pairs
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"Ecology: A world without mosquitoes"
July 21, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.432-434
Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems -- wouldn't it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes.
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Stingy aliens may call us on cheap rates only
July 22, 2010 New Scientist, n.2770, p.17
we could be missing alien communications because we are not taking into account the fiscal constraints on sending out intergalactic messages
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Every black hole may hold a hidden universe
July 23, 2010 New Scientist, n.2770, p.9
our own universe could be inside a black hole -- if an analysis based on a modified version of Einstein's general relativity proves to be correct
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Climategate scientist breaks his silence
July 28, 2010 New Scientist, n.2771, p.10-11
with inquiries into the affair now complete, Phil Jones reflects on his bruising experiences at the centre of the storm
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Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us
July 28, 2010 New Scientist, n.2771, p.6-7
some dinosaurs' skulls changed so much as they matured that we've mistaken young and old for completely different species
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"MIT OpenCourseWare: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds"
July 30, 2010 Science, v.329, n.5991, p.525-526
a collection of more than 2000 course syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, and exams is provided free of charge
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"Early Chordate Origins of the Vertebrate Second Heart Field"
July 30, 2010 Science, v.329, n.5991, p.565-568
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"Paraná flood basalts: Rapid extrusion hypothesis confirmed by new 40Ar/39Ar results"
August 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.8, p.747-750
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"Predatory digging behavior by dinosaurs"
August 1, 2010 Geology, v.38, n.8, p.699-702
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Valley of the Whales
August 1, 2010 National Geographic
an Egyptian desert, once an ocean, holds the secret to one of evolution’s most remarkable transformations -- whale evolution
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Our Neandertal Brethren: Why They Were Not a Separate Species
August 1, 2010 Scientific American
genome sequencing has revealed our common humanity
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Faith and Foolishness: When Religious Beliefs Become Dangerous
August 1, 2010 Scientific American
religious leaders should be held accountable when their irrational ideas turn harmful
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'Super-Earths': Could They Harbor Life?
August 1, 2010 Scientific American
The night skies are littered with distant planets, but what are they really like? Theoretical models suggest that a surprising number of "exoplanets" could be similar to Earth--and may even support life.
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Cosmology's not broken, so why try to fix it?
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772, p.22-23
claims that there is something wrong with our standard model of the universe rest on flawed logic
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Reptiles were the earliest North American pioneers
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772, p.14
the oldest reptile prints ever found suggest that these were the first creatures to venture into continental interiors
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Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772, p.6-7
digital organisms not only mutate and evolve, they also have memory -- so how long before they acquire intelligence too?
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Frontiers of cloning
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772
new techniques could enable us to clone everything from racing camels to extinct mammoths -- but we should never clone a human being
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Dollymania: the creation of a celebrity sheep
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772
Dolly's debut provoked an outcry, but her creator says it revolutionised our understanding of the laws of biology
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A century of cloning
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772
attempts to clone animals began more than 100 years ago, but it took seaweed jelly, salamanders and some strands of baby hair to make it work
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"The evolution of mammal-like crocodyliforms in the Cretaceous Period of Gondwana"
August 5, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.748-751
a spectacular adaptive radiation among notosuchian crocodyliforms led to all manner of strange forms
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Digital evolution and the meaning of life
August 5, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772, p.3
if life and consciousness can be mimicked in a computer, we might at last understand what these concepts really mean
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Recreate life to understand how life began
August 9, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772, p.26-27
building artificial cells will tell us much about the origins of life -- and may explain how Darwinian evolution began
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Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
March 1, 2009 Belknap Press (Harvard University Press)
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Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design
July 1, 2009 Broadview Press
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Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
March 1, 2010 Oxford University Press
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What Social Science Does--and Doesn’t--Know
March 1, 2010 City Journal, v.20, n.3
our scientific ignorance of the human condition remains profound
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The faith that underpins science
August 4, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772
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Why We Should Be Skeptical of Skeptics (Like Michael Shermer)
August 7, 2010 Pearcey Report
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Tiny Fish Evolved to Tolerate Colder Temperature in Three Years
August 9, 2010 Science Daily
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On Guard Christian Apologetics Conference
August 9, 2010 Denton, Texas
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Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
July 1, 2010 University of Chicago Press
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Play: CellCraft
July 9, 2010 Kongregate
Cell Craft Game: build a cell, fight off viruses, survive harsh worlds, and save the Platypus species!
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Let's get physical
August 3, 2010 National Post
Robert Oppenheimer, reflecting in 1953 on early ventures in the exotic field of quantum theory, said that this form of physics describes events so remote from common experience
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Tooth to tail oddities in ancient croc
August 4, 2010 Nature News
a fossil crocodile reveals that this conservative group of reptiles was once much more adventurous
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The Evolutionary Belief System
August 9, 2010 Answers in Genesis
on creation compromises, theistic-evolution, and worldviews
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Author on leave after Harvard inquiry
August 10, 2010 Boston Globe
investigation of scientist’s work finds evidence of misconduct, prompts retraction by journal ... scientist Marc Hauser’s studies include work on the cognitive and evolutionary underpinnings of language
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Mosasaur Fossil: Life of 85-Million-Year-Old 'Sea Monster' Illuminated
August 10, 2010 Science Daily
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New Find Pushes Age of Stone Tools Back a Million Years
August 11, 2010 Wired
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Butchering dinner 3.4 million years ago
August 11, 2010 Nature News
slashed animal bones suggest early hominins were chopping up predator kills earlier than we thought
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Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life's history
August 11, 2010 New Scientist, n.2772
oxygen is supposed to have driven the evolution of complex life -- but the discovery of animals that thrive without it tells a different story
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Evolutionary Surprise: Freedom of Neck Played Major Role in Human Brain Evolution
August 11, 2010 Science Daily
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5th Symposium on Biological Complexity: Emerging Concepts and Trends
August 11, 2010 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
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Is intelligent design science, and does it matter? (pdf)
August 11, 2010 Verbum et Ecclesia, v.28, n.1, 18p.
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Einstein & Faith
April 5, 2007 Time Magazine
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The C. S. Lewis College
February 1, 2009
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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
April 1, 2010 Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Waning of Materialism
April 1, 2010 Oxford University Press
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Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
May 1, 2010 Yale University Press
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