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A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China
April 5, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.92-95
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The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks
April 5, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.55-61
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Conception to birth
December 1, 2010 TED talks (YouTube)
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Tennessee Joins the Anti-Evolution Parade and Ignores the Experts
March 23, 2012 Huffington Post
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The United Methodist Church Flirts with Creationism
March 28, 2012 Huffington Post
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Ash traces hint at cave cuisine 1 million years ago
April 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2859, p.12
the record of our ancestors' earliest fires has been pushed back, reigniting the debate over whether human anatomy was changed by cooking
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Physicists must get used to the limelight
April 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2859, p.3
the flap over faster-than-light neutrinos will be the first of many
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US scepticism -- it's been a long time coming
April 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2859, p.4-5
distrust in science among US conservatives is assumed to be a recent political gambit -- the reality is it's been building for decades
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Age of oldest rocks off by millions of years
April 3, 2012 New Scientist, n.2859, p.9
the solar system's natural timekeepers have been caught misbehaving, spelling trouble for how we chart its history and date its material
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Feathery Dinosaurs and a Turkey in Tennessee
April 5, 2012 Philly.com (Philadelphia)
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Reading Pliocene Bones
April 6, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6077, p.46-47
standardized criteria will help to reliably distinguish marks made by hominid tools from feeding traces of other animals
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News to Note
April 7, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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A pair of geologic clocks get updates
April 9, 2012 ars technica
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News Update/Commentary
Eggs of Enigmatic Dinosaur in Patagonia Discovered
April 10, 2012 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
What Triggers a Mass Extinction?
April 10, 2012 Science Daily
habitat loss and tropical cooling were once to blame
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News Update/Commentary
Study on Extrasolar Planet Orbits Suggests That Planetary Systems Like Our Solar System Is the Norm
April 11, 2012 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Could 'Advanced' Dinosaurs Rule Other Planets?
April 11, 2012 Science Daily
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Book
The Origins of Grammar: Language in the Light of Evolution, v.2
September 1, 2011 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Book
War of the Worldviews: Science Vs. Spirituality
October 1, 2011 Random House (Harmony)
see also Amazon
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The War on Religion: A View from the Trenches
April 11, 2012 Huffington Post
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We're closing in on consciousness in the brain
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.24-25
brain "observatories" may solve the puzzle of how material brains create an intangible world of love, colour, taste and fantasy
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Hold the painkillers, says 'Darwinian' paediatrician
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.23
it's time for evolution to take centre stage in the practice of medicine
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Wildfires roasted dinosaurs while flowers bloomed
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.13
the mid-Cretaceous was racked by wildfires, and while this probably roasted some dinosaurs, it also allowed flowering plants to rise to dominate the plant world
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Neither Explosion nor Expansion Theories Created Universe
April 12, 2012 Ground Report
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Dreams of water on Mars evaporate
April 12, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.153
climate models reveal the red planet was mostly cold and dry
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Tougher Times for Any Life on an Early Mars?
April 13, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6078, p.150-151
a planetary geologist marched back in martian time to argue that Mars has always been cold and dry
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Biological discoveries that match the excitement of the Higgs boson
April 13, 2012 Access Research Network (blog)
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News to Note
April 14, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Hot Button: Teaching science in Tennessee
April 15, 2012 Memphis Commercial Appeal (Tennessee)
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Book
My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir
May 1, 2012 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Closing arguments conclude in JPL evolution case
April 16, 2012 Pasadena Star News (California)
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What Is the Best Way to Deal With Supernaturalists in Science and Evolution?
April 16, 2012 Huffington Post
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Thomas Kuhn in retrospect
April 17, 2012 Access Research Network (blog)
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The Unscientific Model: "Academic Freedom's" Creationist Pedigree
April 17, 2012 Media Matters for America
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Tsunami simulations scare Japan
April 17, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.296-297
updated risk assessment warns country to prepare for much larger earthquakes and waves
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Creationism and Monkey Business in Tennessee
April 18, 2012 Huffington Post
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News Update/Commentary
Shells made dinosaurs egg-stinct
April 18, 2012 Fox News
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News Update/Commentary
Could a Newly Discovered Viral Genome Change What We Thought We Knew About Virus Evolution?
April 18, 2012 Science Daily
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Park wants to display more dino tracks
March 19, 2012 United Press International
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Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion
April 19, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.363-366
changes in ocean chemistry promoted during the formation of the Great Unconformity, a stratigraphic surface that separates continental basement rock from younger marine sedimentary deposits, are proposed as the cause of
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Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints
April 19, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.359-362
experiments dropping raindrops onto ash combined with raindrop fossil imprints yield an upper limit for air density in the Archaean
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No shame
April 19, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.287-288
the handling of results suggesting faster-than-light neutrinos was a model of fitting behaviour
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Science teacher told to stop teaching about creationism
April 20, 2012 Times-News (North Carolina)
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New Genetic Letters Augment DNA, and Soon Perhaps Life
April 20, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6079, p.292-293
synthetic nucleotides that can be incorporated into DNA and can be copied with near perfection by enzymes that copy natural DNA
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News Update/Commentary
Polar Bears Evolutionarily Five Times Older and Genetically More Distinct
April 20, 2012 Science Daily
ancestry traced back 600,000 years
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Wernher von Braun Remembered
April 20, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
late in the Apollo program, von Braun became a Christian and supporter of creation and academic freedom
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News to Note
April 21, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Dino-bird had oldest known case of osteoarthritis
April 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2861, p.16
fossilised ankle bones of Caudipteryx, a dino-bird that lived 130 million years ago, show signs of the painful bone condition
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Superfreak of Evolution: The Lizard With a Humanlike Placenta
March 1, 2012 Discover Magazine
it's normal for us but very rare for a reptile
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Lava overruns last house in Royal Gardens subdivision
March 3, 2012 Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Hawaii)