Geoscience Research Institute
News Archive (March 2005)
DISCLAIMER: The following links do not necessarily
represent endorsement by the Geoscience Research Institute, but are meant to
provide information from a wide range of viewpoints and expertise on scientific issues,
religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation
and evolution.
MARCH 31
-
Physics & the God of Abraham V (3-part lecture series) / April 4-6, 2005 /
Gonzaga University and Whitworth College, Spokane, WA
- "Truth in Science: Proof, Persuasion, and the Galileo Affair" / Owen
Gingerich
- "The Roots of Keplers New Astronomy" / Owen Gingerich
- "Great Priest-Scientists Through the Ages" / Stephen Barr
- "B.F.
Skinner, Revisited" / April 1, 2005 / David P. Barash / Chronicle of
Higher Education, v.51, n.30, p.B10 "Yes, thinking meat!
Conscious meat! Dreaming meat! The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the
picture?"
- "Do Tsunamis Come in
Super-size?" / April 2005 / William A. Hoesch and Steven A. Austin /
Impact, n.382 (Institute for Creation Research)
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Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword ... / April 2005 / Brian K. Hall /
Scientific American ... for the 200-year search for links
between embryos and evolution
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The Alternative Genome / April 2005 / Gil Ast / Scientific American
The old axiom "one gene, one protein" no longer holds true.
The more complex an organism, the more likely it became that way by extracting
multiple protein meanings from individual genes.
- Verdict
that Demands Evidence / April 2005 / Charles Colson with Anne Morse /
Christianity Today it is Darwinists, not Christians, who
are stonewalling the facts
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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations / April 2005 / W. F. Bynum
and Roy Porter (editors) / Oxford University Press
see also
Amazon
- "Seismology:
Speed and size of the Sumatra earthquake"
requires registration
/ 31 March 2005 / Seth Stein and Emile A. Okal / Nature, v.434,
p.581-582
- "Structural
and temporal requirements for geomagnetic field reversal deduced from lava
flows"
requires registration
/ 31 March 2005 / Brad S. Singer, Kenneth A. Hoffman, Robert S. Coe, Laurie L.
Brown, Brian R. Jicha, Malcolm S. Pringles, and Annick Chauvin / Nature,
v.434, p.633-636
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Sex Speeds Up Evolution, Study Finds / March 30, 2005 / Stefan Lovgren /
National Geographic News
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Not Intelligent, and Surely Not Science / March 30, 2005 / Michael Shermer
/ Los Angeles Times intelligent-design theorists argue
that because design can be inferred through the methods of science,
intelligent design theory should be given equal time alongside evolutionary
theory in public school science classes
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New battle over evolution erupts in nation's schools / March 30, 2005 /
Alexandra Witze / Kansas City Star
-
Quake Damage Limited to Small Area; Hundreds Dead / March 30, 2005 / Seth
Mydans / New York Times (International Herald Tribune)
- Second
giant quake rocks Indonesia / 29 March 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature
(news@nature) seismologists puzzle over absence of tsunamis
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Powerful Quake Jolts the Seabed Off the West Coast of Indonesia / March
29, 2005 / Somini Sengupta / New York Times
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Creation Conflict in Schools / March 28, 2005 / Jeffrey Brown / PBS
how some biology teachers are handling the hot button debate
over the theory of evolution, creationism and intelligent design
- Eda controls
stickleback armor / March 28, 2005 / Sarah Lovinger / The Scientist
small genetic changes control widespread and major
evolution
-
Protein Packages Found to Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development
and Disease / March 28, 2005 / Harvard University / Science Daily
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Censorship in the Science Museums / March 28, 2005 / New York Times
a dozen or so Imax theaters, mostly in the South, have
been shying away from science documentaries that might offend Christian
fundamentalists
- Tyrannosaurus rex soft tissue
-
An
Unexpected Softness / March 28, 2005 / New York Times
a dinosaur bone upset everyone's expectations in
ways that may ripple outward for a long time
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Ostrich-osaurus discovery? / March 28, 2005 / David N. Menton /
Answers in Genesis shedding
more light on the new startling find of soft tissue in a T. rex bone
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Still soft and stretchy / 25 March 2005 / Carl Wieland / Answers in
Genesis dinosaur
soft tissue find -- a stunning rebuttal of millions of years
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Soft Tissue Discovered in Bone of a Dinosaur / March 25, 2005 / Robert
Lee Hotz / Los Angeles Times
intact after 70 million years,
bits of a T. rex's hind leg startle and intrigue researchers
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Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil / March 24, 2005 / CNN
researchers have recovered
70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and
cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex
- Picking over the
bones / March 15, 2005 / sources: Peggy Ostrom, Matthew Collins, and
Christina Nielsen-Marsh / wellcome trust (UK)
ancient proteins stuck to fossil
bones may be able to tell us about evolution and the tree of life in the
distant past
-
Ancient DNA Comes of Age / February 15, 2005 / Henry Nicholls / PLoS
Biology, v.3, n.2
- "Biomolecules
in fossil remains" (pdf) / June 2002./ Christina Nielsen-Marsh / The
Biochemist
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Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania town / March 27, 2005 / Yahoo! News
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The evolutionary revolutionary / March 27, 2005 / Drake Bennett /
Boston Globe in
the 1970s Robert Trivers wrote a series of papers that transformed
evolutionary biology
- Sticker Wars:
Intelligent design foes fight evolution sticker / March 24, 2005 / Charles
Colson / Florida Baptist Witness, v.122, n.11
January 27, 2005 /
BreakPoint
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UF
science discovery raises questions about origin of African mammals / 24
March 2005 / contact: Jonathan Bloch (University of Florida) / EurekAlert!
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Survey Indicates Science Teachers Feel Pressure to Teach Nonscientific
Alternatives to Evolution / March 24, 2005 / Cindy Workosky / National
Science Teachers Association
- Protestant
philosopher at Notre Dame carves out intellectual room for God and miracles
/ March 23, 2005 / Richard N. Ostling / Associated Press
- Light
from alien planets confirmed / 23 March 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature
(news@nature) orbiting telescope records the fiery glow of
hot worlds
-
A Mix of Mice and Men / March 23, 2005 / Gregory M. Lamb / Christian
Science Monitor scientists hope that by mixing genes of
different animals they can better understand human biology and eventually test
new drugs more safely and accurately, harvest organs for transplant into
humans, and find new cures for human diseases
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'Call to arms' on evolution / March 23, 2005 / Dan Vergano and Greg Toppo
/ USA Today
-
Religion and Natural History Clash Among the Ultra-Orthodox / March 22,
2005 / Alex Mindlin / New York Times
- Vision of
scientist-priest Teilhard de Chardin to guide April 8-9 environmental talks
/ March 14, 2005 / United Nations, Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai among speakers
- Feathered
Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight / March 12 - September 5, 2005 / Royal
Ontario Museum
-
Beyond the Brain / March 2005 / James Shreeve / National Geographic
what goes on within the human skull is more complex and
fantastic than anyone imagined
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Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy / January 25, 2005 / Maryann Mott /
National Geographic News
- Proposed Revisions to Kansas
Science Standards / 2005 / Kansas State Board of Education
draft 2, with explanations
- Dinosaurs on Alaska's
North Slope / U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management
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God and Evolution: A Faith-Based Understanding / October 2004 / David
L. Wilcox / Judson Press see also
Amazon
- Coming
to Peace With Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology /
April 2004 / Darrel R. Falk / InterVarsity Press
see also
Amazon
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Evolution from Creation to New Creation: Conflict, Conversation, and
Convergence / November 2003 / Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett /
Abingdon Press see also
Amazon
- NanoEffect.com
potential effects of nanotechnology on society and nature
- Prince warns of
science 'risks' / 11 July 2004 / BBC News the Prince of
Wales has warned of the possible risks of nanotechnology and called for the
cutting edge science to be used "wisely and appropriately"
- Bill Joy's
Hi-Tech Warning / 2001 / Jason Specht / Center for the Study of
Technology and Society
- Why the
future doesn't need us / April 2000 / Bill Joy / Wired, issue 8.04
our most powerful 21st-century technologies -- robotics,
genetic engineering, and nanotech -- are threatening to make humans an
endangered species
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Summary of Testable Creation Model / February 7, 2000 / Hugh Ross /
Reasons To Believe
MARCH 24
-
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
/ August 2005 / John D. Barrow / Pantheon (Random
House) see also
Amazon
-
Evolution on Trial / April 2005 / Steve Kemper / Smithsonian Magazine
eighty years after a Dayton, Tennessee, jury found John Scopes
guilty of teaching evolution, the citizens of "Monkeytown" still say Darwin's
for the birds
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Dances with fruit flies / March 28, 2005 / Thomas Hayden / U.S. News &
World Report
- "Alien
Planets Glimmer in the Heat"
requires registration
/ 25 March 2005 / Robert Irion / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1853
- "SCIENTIFIC
MISCONDUCT: Researcher Faces Prison for Fraud in NIH Grant Applications
and Papers"
requires registration
/ 25 March 2005 / Eli Kintisch / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1851
- "PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Discoverers Charge Damage to 'Hobbit' Specimens"
requires registration
/ 25 March 2005 / Elizabeth Culotta / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1848
- "A
New Population of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources in the Milky Way"
requires registration
/ 25 March 2005 / F. Aharonian, et al. / Science, v.307, n.5717,
p.1938-1942
- "Tyrannosaurus
rex Soft Tissue Raises Tantalizing Prospects"
requires registration
/ 25 March 2005 / Erik Stokstad / Science, v.307, n.5717, p.1852
- Blood vessels
recovered from T. rex bone / 24 March 2005 / Jeff Hecht / New
Scientist
- T. rex fossil
has 'soft tissues' / 24 March 2005 / BBC News dinosaur
experts have extracted samples of what appear to be soft tissues from a
Tyrannosaurus rex fossil bone
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Flexible fossil shows tyrannosaur's softer side / 24 March 2005 / Deirdre
Lockwood / Nature
(news@nature) preserved soft tissue could reveal inner
workings of dinosaur bones
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IMAX theaters reject film over evolution / March 24, 2005 / CNN
(Associated Press) theaters in several Southern cities have
decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to
evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs
- "Genome-wide
non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis"
requires registration
/ 24 March 2005 / Susan J. Lolle, Jennifer L. Victor, Jessica M. Young, and
Robert E. Pruitt / Nature, v.434, p.505-509
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College professors should be made to teach, not preach / March 23, 2005 /
David Horowitz / USA Today
- Flores
fossil passes unique species test / 12 March 2005 / Will Knight / New
Scientist, n.2490, p.12
- The
bubble that ate the universe / 12 March 2005 / Stuart Clark / New
Scientist, n.2490 space-time fizzes with bubbles popping
in and out of existence all across the cosmos -- they could destroy the
universe and everything in it
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Evidence of dark energy missed 30 years ago / 12 March 2005 / Stuart Clark
/ New Scientist, n.2490, p.14
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'Missing' dark matter was there all along / 5 March 2005 / Maggie McKee /
New Scientist, n.2489 astronomers were stumped when
some invisible dark matter "went missing" two years ago -- it has now turned
up again, much to their relief
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Powerful radio pulses puzzle astronomers / 5 March 2005 / New Scientist,
n.2489, p.21
- Ancient
bacteria woken from deep Alaskan sleep / 5 March 2005 / Kelly Young /
New Scientist, n.2489 a previously unknown bacterium that
lay dormant in the Alaskan permafrost for 32,000 years has been revived from
suspended animation
- Higher
laws and the mind-boggling complexity of life / 5 March 2005 / Paul Davies
/ New Scientist, n.2489 Add the limits of computation
to the age of the universe and what do you get? A radical take on the
emergence of life.
- 25 Years of
Mass Extinctions and Impacts / February 2005 / Spencer G. Lucas /
Geotimes
- Passion
for Paleo: Amateur Fossil Collectors / February 2005 / Lisa M. Pinsker /
Geotimes
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Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure /
January 2005 / Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo /
Columbia University Press see also
Amazon
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Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology, and Complexity
/ April 2004 / John D. Barrow, Paul C. W. Davies, and Charles L. Harper, Jr.
(editors) / Cambridge University Press see also
Amazon
MARCH 23
MARCH 22
-
LETTERS: Darwinism and Its Discontents / March 21,
2005 / Andy Anderson, Howard Morland, Ralph Hitchens, Allan B. Lefcowitz,
Natalia Rice, and Mark Eckenwiler / Washington Post, p.A18
- A New
Screen Test for Imax: It's the Bible vs. the Volcano / March 19, 2005 /
Cornelia Dean / New York Times
-
New Theory of How Planets Form Finds Havens of Stability Amid Turbulence /
March 19, 2005 / Indiana University / Science Daily
- Giant
space-time ripples may cause cosmic expansion / 18 March 2005 / Maggie
McKee / New Scientist
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Evangelical environmentalism: We (include) the people / March 18, 2005 /
John R. Christy / townhall.com
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Evolution at Work (and creationism nowhere in sight) / March 18, 2005 /
Carl Zimmer / Corante
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No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict / March 17, 2005 / Maggie Fox
/ Yahoo! News (Reuters)
- What is
Evangelical Environmentalism? / March 16, 2005 / Gerald Zandstra / Action
Institute (for the study of religion and liberty)
- DNA
gets a fake fifth base / 16 March 2005 / Emma Marris / Nature
(news@nature) artificial sequences could one day answer
questions about evolution
- Quake
threat rises after tsunami slip / 16 March 2005 / Michael Hopkin /
Nature (news@nature) nearby faults are under increased
strain after December's catastrophe
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Species list reaches half-million mark / 15 March 2005 / Mark Peplow /
Nature (news@nature) researchers claim 'spectacular
progress' towards logging all Earth's life
- The
Nature of Normal Human Variety / talk with Armand Leroi / Edge (The
Third Culture) even if this is a revival of racial science, we
should engage in it for it does not follow that it is a revival of racist
science
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In Search of History: The Piltdown Man (VHS) explore
astonishing theories about who may be responsible for the most famous and
successful scientific con job in history
- How Did Life
Begin? / Andy Knoll (interview) / Nova (PBS) more on
Origins page
MARCH 18
- "EVOLUTION:
Special Hemoglobin Helped Swim Bladders Give Fish Diversity a Lift"
requires registration
/ 18 March 2005 / Elizabeth Pennisi / Science, v.307, n.5716, p.1705
- "EVOLUTION:
Fossil Horses--Evidence for Evolution"
requires registration
/ 18 March 2005 / Bruce J. MacFadden / Science, v.307, n.5716,
p.1728-1730
- How to
prepare a planet for global warming / March 18, 2005 / Peter N. Spotts /
Christian Science Monitor
convinced the phenomenon is
inevitable, some scientists now focus on coping with it
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Researcher admits fraud in grant data / March 18, 2005 / Carey Goldberg
and Scott Allen / Boston Globe
ex-Vermont scientist won nearly
$3m from US
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Evolution is much more than just a scientific 'hunch' / March 17, 2005 /
Samuel Kounaves / Winchester Star (Massachusetts)
- Scopes
Snoops / March 17, 2005 / told to Tony Ortega / The Pitch (Kansas
City) watching
one arm of Kansas vast right-wing conspiracy
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Where Does Intelligent Life Come From? / March 8, 2005 / Jeff Barbour /
Universe Today
- Crux Magazine
where truth meets fiction ...
about
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Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds /
April 2004 / Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus, Martin A. Shugar, and Joanna
L. Wright (editors) / Indiana University Press
see also
Amazon
- Science and Christianity:
Conflict or Coherence? / July 2003 / Henry F. Shaefer III / The
Apollos Trust (University of Georgia)
see also
Amazon
- review: Jim
Wenger / March 2005 / The Real Issue
MARCH 16
- "Indonesian
earthquake: Earthquake risk from co-seismic stress"
requires registration
/ 17 March 2005 / John McCloskey, Suleyman S. Nalbant, and Sandy Steacy /
Nature, v.434, p.291
- Genes
contribute to religious inclination / 16 March 2005 / Maggie McKee /
New Scientist
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Criticisms of evolution aren't based on science / March 15, 2005 / Michael
J. Everhart / Wichita Eagle (Kansas)
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Fight to recall the wonder / March 11, 2005 / Simon Conway Morris / Church
Times it is telling
that the apparent disagreements between science and religion
are so often treated with a bluntness that in any normal discourse would be
dismissed as juvenile
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A Naturalists Paradise / March 2005 / Jocelyn Selim / Discover,
v.26, n.3 in
a wonderland called Madagascar, a modern-day Darwin discovers hundreds of new
species
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Drilling San Andreas / March 2005 / Brad Lemley / Discover, v.26,
n.3 a
two-mile-deep tunnel boring into Americas most infamous fault may help
explain why earthquakes happen and when
- UN
fudges decision on human embryo cloning ban / 26 February 2005 / New
Scientist, n.2488, p.5
- Earth's
gamma rays more powerful than realised / 26 February 2005 / New
Scientist, n.2488, p.20
-
Neutrinos to spy on planet's core / 26 February 2005 / New Scientist,
n.2488, p.21
- Room
for seven on trip to the heavens / 26 February 2005 / New Scientist,
n.2488, p.26
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Astronomers claim first 'dark galaxy' find / 26 February 2005 / Stuart
Clark / New Scientist, n.2488
It contains enough matter to give birth to tens of millions of
stars, so why are all the lights staying off?
- Mars:
Not dead but very much alive / 26 February 2005 / Jenny Hogan and Kelly
Young / New Scientist, n.2488
a
frozen sea, glaciers on its tallest volcano and young lava fields all suggest
the planet is geologically active
- "Catastrophic
meltwater discharge down the Hudson Valley: A potential trigger for the Intra-Allerψd
cold period" / February 2005 / Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Neal W. Driscoll,
Elazar Uchupi, Lloyd D. Keigwin, William C. Schwab, E. Robert Thieler, and
Stephen A. Swift / Geology, v.33, n.2, p.89-92
- "New
model of reef-island evolution: Maldives, Indian Ocean" / February 2005 /
P. S. Kench, R. F. McLean, and S. L. Nichol / Geology, v.33, n.2,
p.145-148
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The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits / January 2005 / Gordon
M. Burghardt / MIT Press see
also
Amazon
-
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future
of the Cosmos / December 2004 / Michio Kaku / Doubleday
see also
Amazon
- Readers respond:
Story on intelligent design study highlights debate on creationism and
evolution / September 22, 2004 / Alan J. Robinson, David L. Bump, and David P.
Vernon / The Scientist
-
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding
of Space and Time / April 2004 / Michio Kaku / W. W. Norton
see also
Amazon
MARCH 15
-
Are you a man or a mouse? / March 15, 2005 / Jeremy Rifkin / The
Guardian (UK)
Chimeric
experimentation is producing animal-human hybrids. This time, science really
has gone too far.
- Intelligent design
vs. evolution in the public schools / March 14, 2005 / religionlink.org
definitions and resources
- Unintelligent
Designs and the Responsibility of Educators / March 14, 2005 / Robert
Holub (Dean of the Undergraduate Division) / University of California,
Berkeley
-
Youth
drinking may hasten heart trouble / 10 March 2005 / Helen Pearson /
Nature (news@nature)
even a little alcohol triggers early signs of disease
- Hans
Bethe / 8 March 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature)
nuclear physicist dies at 98
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The earth
moves most for humans / 7 March 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature
(news@nature)
agriculture and excavations shape the landscape more than
rivers and glaciers
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Ultra-long period seismic moment of the great December 26, 2004 Sumatra
earthquake and implications for the slip process / March 5, 2005 / Seth
Stein and Emile Okal / Dept. of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University,
Evanston IL
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An Earth-Shaking Experience / January 30, 2005 / Joel Achenbach /
Washington Post, p.W13
the shocking truth about scientists
-
Ages
in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time / November 2004
/ Stephen Baxter / Forge Books
see also
Amazon
- Our
Improbable Universe: A Physicist Considers How We Got Here / August
2004 / Michael Mallary / Thunder's Mouth Press
see also
Amazon
-
The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems / July 2004 / John R. Vacca
/ Prentice Hall see also
Amazon
- The
Ontology of Time (Studies in Analytic Philosophy) / July 2004 / L.
Nathan Oaklander / Prometheus Books
see also
Amazon
-
Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
/ April 2004 / A. K. Dewdney / Wiley
see also
Amazon
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Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War,
Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother / March 2004 /
James A. Connor / Harper, San Francisco
see also
Amazon
MARCH 14
MARCH 11
- The Seven
Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City / July 2005 /
Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella de Rita / Princeton University
Press
see also
Amazon
- Life in
Ancient Ice / May 2005 / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers
(editors) / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
- Echo of the
Big Bang / May 2005 / Michael D. Lemonick / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
- The Grand
Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance / May 2005 / David
Park / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
- "Skeleton
of Upright Human Ancestor Discovered in Ethiopia"
requires registration
/ 11 March 2005 / Ann Gibbons / Science, v.307, n.5715, p.1545
- "INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY: Patents on Human Genes: An Analysis of Scope and Claims"
requires registration
/ 11 March 2005 / Jordan Paradise, Lori Andrews, and Timothy Holbrook /
Science, v.307, n.5715, p.1566-1567
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NYU's Dvali Says Change in Laws of Gravity, Not 'Dark Energy,' Source of
Cosmic Acceleration / March 10, 2005 / New York University / Science Daily
- Teens &
creation/evolution: Most see God's handiwork / March 9, 2005 / Michael
Foust / Baptist Press News (Southern Baptist Convention)
- Laser
co-inventor wins $1.5 million prize / March 9, 2005 / Richard N. Ostling /
Kansas City Star (Associated Press)
Charles Townes, co-inventor of the laser and a Nobel
Prize-winner in physics, was named as the recipient of a religion award billed
as the world's richest annual prize
-
The Fossil Fallacy / March 2005 / Michael Shermer / Scientific American
creationists' demand for fossils
that represent "missing links" reveals a deep misunderstanding of science
-
Misconceptions about the Big Bang / March 2005 / Charles H. Lineweaver and
Tamara M. Davis / Scientific American
Baffled by the expansion of the universe? You're not alone.
Even astronomers frequently get it wrong.
-
Chernobyl: Catastrophe, Consequences and Solutions / March 2005 / Jim
Smith / Springer Praxis see also
Amazon
- Sneaking a
Look at God's Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics /
February 2005 / Giancarlo Ghirardi / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
- Infinity
and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite / November
2004 / Rudy Rucker / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
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International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and
Consequences / November 2004 / Joseph P. Stoltman, John Lidstone, and
Lisa M. DeChano (editors) / Springer
see also
Amazon
- Explaining
the Universe: The New Age of Physics / March 2004 / John M. Charap /
Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
-
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science / February
2000 / Charles Coulston Gillispie / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
- Edge of
Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas / 1966 /
Charles Coulston Gillispie / Princeton University Press
see also
Amazon
MARCH 10
- Remembering Francis Crick
/ March 24, 2005 / Oliver Sacks / New York Review of Books, v.52, n.5
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Charles Townes Wins 2005 Templeton Prize / March 9, 2005 / contact: Donald
Lehr / Metanexus Institute
Nobel laureate who invented the laser and advocates the
convergence of science and religion won the $1.5 million Templeton Prize
-
Mystery Undersea Extinction Cycle Discovered / March 9, 2005 / John Roach
/ National Geographic News
-
Retrovirus Struck Ancestors of Chimps and Gorillas Millions of Years Ago, But
Not Ancestral Humans / March 9, 2005 / University of Washington / Science
Daily
- The Metaphysics of
Evolution / March 9, 2005 / Fred Reed / LewRockwell.com
- What the Stations
Say / John L. Daly / NASA Goddard Institute (GISS) and Climatic Research
Unit (CRU) historical
temperature graphs from a large selection of mostly non-urban weather stations
in both hemispheres
- "Soot
climate forcing via snow and ice albedos" / 2004 / J. Hansen and L.
Nazarenko / Proceedings National Academy of Science, v.101, p.423-428
- As Pure as
Snow / December 2003 / James E. Hansen / NASA, Goddard Institute for
Space Studies the typical snowflake contains thousands of
fine particles, including soil dust, various chemicals, and "soot"
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Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA / September 2004 / William Dembski
and Michael Ruse (editors) / Cambridge University Press
see also
Amazon
- review: March 4,
2005 / Dan D. Crawford (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) / Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews
-
What Genes Can't Do / August 2002 / Lenny Moss / MIT Press
basic bioethics; see also
Amazon
- review: August 11,
2003 / Jonathan Michael Kaplan (Oregon State University) / Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews
MARCH 9
- "Cycles
in fossil diversity"
requires registration
/ 10 March 2005 / Robert A. Rohde and Richard A. Muller / Nature,
v.434, p.208-210
- "An
upper limit to the masses of stars"
requires registration
/ 10 March 2005 / Donald F. Figer / Nature, v.434, p.192-194
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There are valid criticisms of evolution / March 9, 2005 / David Berlinksi
/ Wichita Eagle
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Bay Area Christian College to Host ''Origin of Life'' Seminar / March 8,
2005 / Kenneth Chan / The Christian Post the senior research
specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute will speak from the
perspective of Intelligent Design
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Oldest fossil human protein ever sequenced / 8 March 2005 / contact: Neil
Schoenherr (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) / EurekAlert!
- Why
science and religion should be like oil and water / March 5, 2005 / Gil
Smart / Lancaster Newspapers (Pennsylvania)
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Remember Then, Now / March 3, 2005 / Christine Rosen / National Review
Online what the eugenics movement can teach us about todays
stem-cell debates
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How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate? / March 2005 / William F.
Ruddiman / Scientific American
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MARCH 4
MARCH 3
MARCH 2
- "A
modest proposal..."
requires registration
/ 3 March 2005 / Vonda N. McIntyre / Nature, v.434, p.122
...for the perfection of nature
- "A
powerful bursting radio source towards the Galactic Centre"
requires registration
/ 3 March 2005 / Scott D. Hyman, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Namir E. Kassim, Paul S.
Ray, Craig B. Markwardt, and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh / Nature, v.434,
p.50-52
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Surprise discovery of highly developed structure in the young universe / 2
March 2005 / R. West (European Southern Observatory) / EurekAlert!
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Is the Smithsonian promoting religion? / March 2, 2005 / Terence Jeffrey /
townhall.com
- Old Bones
and Stones Never Lie
/ March 2, 2005 / Denyse O'Leary / Christianity.ca
... but what about some of the people who dig them? Recent
major frauds in archaeology stem from an apparent need to make our race appear
older than it is.
- Vital
organs gave snakes their venom / 1 March 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature
(news@nature)
specific toxins evolved from tweaks to key proteins
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Creationism, pluralism and the compromising of science / 1 March 2005 /
Joe Kaplinsky / spiked the trouble with 'teaching the
controversy'
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EPIGENETICS: It's not all in the DNA / March 2005 /
Tanita Casci / Nature Reviews Genetics, v.6, n.3, p.165
genetic parallels between organisms are often described by the
similarity of their genome sequences, but this view might not be the full
story
-
Atheism worldwide in decline / February 28, 2005 / Uwe Siemon-Netto /
Insight (United Press International)
- The
mystery of disappearing gravity / 19 February 2005 / Bruce Schechter /
New Scientist, n.2487
- Can
'feather foot' knock oldest bird off its perch? / 19 February 2005 / Jeff
Hecht / New Scientist
-
The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology / Noveber
2004 / W. C. McGrew / Cambridge University Press
see also
Amazon
- "The Tenets of
Creationism" / July 1980 / Henry M. Morris / Impact, n.85
(Institute for Creation Research)
MARCH 1
- Surprising Footprints in Old Sand
/ March 1, 2005 / Kenneth Chang / New York Times "The finding suggests that animals adapted
to a new life on land more quickly, at least on evolutionary time scales, than was thought."
- Flores hominid bones returned
/ February 28, 2005 / Tabitha M. Powledge / The Scientist handover is unlikely to resolve
scientific and ethical issues over Homo floriensis
- Formaldehyde claim inflames martian debate
/ 25 February 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) top scientist defends
data that he says point strongly to life on Mars
- Martian pole reveals ice age cycles
/ 24 February 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) climate record seen in Red
Planet's exposed ice cliffs
- Astronomers spot invisible galaxy
/ 23 February 2005 / Mark Peplow / Nature (news@nature) discovery supports most
recent theories about exotic dark matter
- Bacteria thrive at stunning depths
/ 23 February 2005 / Roxanne Khamsi / Nature (news@nature) genetic molecule reveals
that cells in ancient ocean sediments are alive
- Quark soup may cause cosmic flashes
/ 23 February 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) gamma-ray bursts could be
the signature of ultradense stars
- Mars may have a frozen sea
/ 22 February 2005 / Philip Ball / Nature (news@nature) images of Elysium plains
seem to show ice floes
- To know science is to love it
/ 22 February 2005 / Helen Pearson / Nature (news@nature) bolstering support for
the field remains a thorny problem
- Titanic complexity pleases planet scientists
/ 21 February 2005 / Jo Marchant / Nature (news@nature) Cassini beams back data on
ammoniac lava and 'cat scratch' formations
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Seminary site to explore cosmic designer concept / February 20, 2005 /
Peter Smith / Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) scholar contends Darwin was wrong
- letters:
February 27, 2005 an affront to the truth ... scientifically illiterate ... faith-based theory
... schism instead of faith
- Religious right fights science for the heart of America
/ February 7, 2005 / Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian (UK) creationists take their challenge to evolution
theory into the classroom
- Sea Sediments as Telescopes
/ November 2004 / Brian Fields / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign radioactive evidence for a near-Earth
supernova explosion
- A Natural Nuclear Reactor in Gabon
/ October 27, 2004 / Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein / Physics News, n.706 (American Institute of Physics)
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