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Must We Be Able To Reason To Be Thought of As Human Persons?
May 15, 2022 Mind Matters
A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason
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Rebranding Some Junk DNA As Spam DNA
May 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A Science Writer Muses on Efforts To Grapple with Time
May 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Time -- the Universe’s odd dimension
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Studies of Co-Evolution Biased Toward “Striking and Exaggerated Phenotypes”
May 15, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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The study of nonhuman intelligence could be missing major insights
May 14, 2022 Big Think
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
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Among 5000 Known Exoplanets, There Are Some Really Strange Ones
May 14, 2022 Mind Matters
Planets so strange that they prompt a rethink of the “planetary rulebook.”
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Denton’s Prior Fitness Argument
May 14, 2022 Uncommon Descent
everything seems to have come together to produce humans
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“Lost” Coral Species Found “Inside” Another Species
May 14, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists Finally Have Proof of Mysterious Immune Cell in Humans
May 13, 2022 Real Clear Science
While working to map every cell in the human body, scientists uncovered an elusive type of immune cell that first emerges in the womb. The existence of such cells in humans has been hotly debated -- until now.
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A quick guide to the most important AI law you've never heard of
May 13, 2022 MIT Technology Review
The European Union is planning new legislation aimed at curbing the worst harms associated with artificial intelligence
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Nothing to talk about: the many mysteries of vacuums
May 13, 2022 ZME Science
A vacuum is not exactly empty in quantum mechanics terms. It is also a headache for physicists.
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Was there an intelligent civilization before humans existed?
May 13, 2022 Big Think
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
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Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?
May 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention
May 13, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
But How?
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A British Philosopher Looks for a Way to Redefine Free Will
May 13, 2022 Mind Matters
Julian Baggini’s proposed new approach assumes the existence of the very qualities that only a traditional view of the mind offers
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ID As Fruitful Approach to Science
May 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers See One Particle on Two Paths
May 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
they say it shows quantum physics is right
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Cells Organize Themselves in Our Organs by Increasing in Volume When Tissues Bend
May 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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A Key Cell Division Protein Is Still a Puzzle
May 13, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Quantum Wittgenstein
May 12, 2022 Aeon
Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ -- they’re nothing but a form of ritual, activity and culture
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What Is Time?
May 12, 2022 nautil.us
The more closely we observe the present moment, the more amorphous it becomes.
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Black hole at the centre of our Galaxy imaged for the first time
May 12, 2022 Nature
The Event Horizon Telescope network has captured the second-ever direct image of a black hole -- called Sagittarius A* -- at the centre of the Milky Way.
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Book
The Last Pillars of Darwinian Evolution Falsified
May 12, 2022 WestBow Press
Further Evidence Proving Darwinian Evolution Wrong | See Also Amazon
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Ancient DNA maps ‘dawn of farming’
May 12, 2022 Nature
Huge collection of genomes charts how hunter-gatherers turned into some of the world’s first farmers in Turkey.
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Ants treat infected wounds of nestmates with medicine from their back
May 12, 2022 New Scientist
Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) in sub-Saharan Africa apply an antimicrobial substance to nestmates whose limbs are lost while raiding termite nests
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Adaptive Genetic and Epigenetic Changes in Plants
May 12, 2022 Institute for Creation Research
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The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light
May 12, 2022 New York Times
The Event Horizon Telescope has once again caught sight of the “unseeable.”
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Transfer RNAs Wear Special Gear for Hot Water
May 12, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Nearly Two Decades of Keening About Science’s Replication Crisis
May 12, 2022 Uncommon Descent
Has Anything Been Learned?
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“Nothing Is Left to Chance in the ‘Seating Plan’ for the First Few Cells”
May 12, 2022 Uncommon Descent
what we are told about embryos
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Stinging Cells Evolved by Repurposing a Neuron from an Older Form of Life
May 12, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Novel RNA and Peptide Species Thought To Have Sparked Evolution of Complex Life
May 12, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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How to think about free will
May 11, 2022 Psyche
You can’t escape cause and effect, but there is a way of viewing human agency that is motivating, plausible and humane
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Origin of life theory involving RNA–protein hybrid gets new support
May 11, 2022 Nature
Structure that links amino acids suggests that early organisms could have been based on an RNA–protein mix.
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Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?
May 11, 2022 New Scientist
For decades, measurements of the universe's expansion have suggested a discrepancy known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to transform cosmology. But a new method suggests the tension may not exist after all
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Turing Tests Are Terribly Misleading
May 11, 2022 Mind Matters
Black box algorithms are now being trusted to approve loans, price insurance, screen job applicants, trade stocks, determine prison sentences, and much more. Is that wise?
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Free Speech Under Fire at Saint Vincent College
May 11, 2022 Real Clear Education
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The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence
May 11, 2022 New Scientist
Animal minds are extraordinarily diverse, but a new attempt to categorise them aims to reveal the distinct nature of intelligence in everything from dolphins to bees -- and even us
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Origin of life theory involving RNA-protein hybrid gets new support
May 11, 2022 Nature
Structure that links amino acids suggests that early organisms could have been based on an RNA–protein mix.
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Before Dividing, Cells Toss Out Waste Products
May 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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On the Non-Religious Racism That Anti-Racists Ignore
May 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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New PBS NOVA Special on the Day the Dinosaurs Died
May 11, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Dr. Frank Wilczek Receives 2022 Templeton Prize
May 11, 2022 Templeton Prize
Wilczek joins past laureates Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall to receive one of the world’s largest individual lifetime achievement awards
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A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles
May 11, 2022 New Scientist
A type of Streptomyces bacterium that lives in soil forms multicellular structures in which some bacterial cells have specialised roles, like the cells of complex organisms – and a computer model suggests how this phenomenon evolved
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Amazon river dolphin may actually be multiple species
May 11, 2022 New Scientist
Genetic analysis has previously hinted that there are several species of Amazon river dolphin, and now differences in skull shape have added to the evidence
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How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man
May 11, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
What We Talk About When We Talk About “Junk DNA”
May 10, 2022 Genome Biology and Evolution, v.14, n.5
“Spam DNA” -- The Vertical Perspective
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Distant starlight and the biblical timeframe
May 10, 2022 Creation Ministries International
Answering a most-asked question
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Bats buzz like hornets to scare off owl predators
May 10, 2022 Nature
Alarming impression is first known case of a mammal copying an insect to deter hostile species.
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Researchers Probe Genetics Behind a Lizard’s Odd Immune System
May 10, 2022 The Scientist
Deletions in the sleepy lizard genome leave it without an important type of T cells found in most other vertebrates.