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A Warning from the Unpublished Preface to Orwell's Animal Farm
August 12, 2023 Mind Matters
Only discovered in 1971, the Preface offers George Orwell’s critical but neglected insights into the nature of censorship in a free society
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Can Information Be Separated from Intelligence? Part 2
August 12, 2023 Mind Matters
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri envisions life’s origin in terms that only make sense if we assume life is the work of an intelligent agent
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What Is the Malcolm Effect?
August 12, 2023 Answers in Genesis
When Scientific Overconfidence Leads to Disaster
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Science fiction: the crisis in research
August 12, 2023 The Spectator
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After Weaponizing Evolution, New Atheists Are Unhappy with Results
August 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Humans Are Terminal Cancer
August 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Environmentalist Misanthropy
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Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?
August 11, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check!
August 11, 2023 Mind Matters
In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention
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Blog Post
Does Climate Research have an Anti-Growth Problem?
August 11, 2023
A new paper suggests that the answer is “Yes"
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In Darwin’s footsteps: sailing ship to retrace round-the-world voyage of the Beagle
August 11, 2023 The Guardian
On Monday, a three-masted schooner will set sail from Plymouth, taking outstanding young naturalists on a two-year educational trip. Crew members still needed …
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers identify 135 new melanin genes responsible for pigmentation
August 11, 2023 Science Daily
The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the light-absorbing pigment known as melanin. New research has identified 135 new genes associated with pigmentation.
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News Update/Commentary
Behind the rind: New genomic insights into watermelon evolution, quality, and resilience
August 11, 2023 Science Daily
Scientists have constructed a comprehensive ‘super-pangenome' for watermelon and its wild relatives, uncovering beneficial genes lost during domestication that could improve disease resistance and fruit quality of this vital fruit crop.
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News Update/Commentary
Evolving elegance: Scientists connect beauty and safeguarding in ammonoid shells
August 11, 2023 Science Daily
With 350 million years of evolution culminating in almost two centuries of scientific discourse, a new hypothesis emerges. Researchers propose a new explanation for why ammonoids evolved a highly elaborate, fractal-like geometry within their shells.
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A Punk Eek Theory for Climate?
August 11, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Something is rotten in the state of science: The ghost of Stephen Jay Gould is lurking in climatology.
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300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before
August 10, 2023 CNN
An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.
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Video
Creationist Makes Terrible Arguments on JRE (A Response)
August 10, 2023 YouTube
Stephen Meyer argues for intelligent design, skeptics respond
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Our Essential “I"ness ... the Search for Its Address in the Brain
August 10, 2023 Mind Matters
Does “I” -- the first person singular -- have or need a fixed address in the brain?
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10 Questions on Fine Tuning with Stephen Meyer
August 10, 2023 YouTube
What does the latest science show about the fine-tuning of the universe? Does it point towards God or is there a better, naturalistic explanation?
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Book
Linnaeus and his life’s work
August 10, 2023 Science, v.381, n.6658, p.611
A historian’s unvarnished biography reveals the complicated man who invented modern taxonomy | See Also Princeton University Press
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia
August 10, 2023 Science, v.381, n.6658, p.699-704
Most of what we know about hominin evolution comes from fossil evidence, and these fossils come from a world shaped by climate and ecological dynamics, as ours is today.
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Spider Silk Properties Ideal for Nerve Repairs
August 10, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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This unique human brain structure may have given us speech
August 10, 2023 Big Think
The structure is fully developed in humans, partially developed in chimps, and completely absent in Old World monkeys.
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Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result
August 10, 2023 Nature
Precision test of particle’s magnetism confirms earlier shocking findings -- but theory might not need a rethink after all.
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News Update/Commentary
Novel information on the neural origins of speech and singing
August 10, 2023 Science Daily
Unlike previously thought, it turns out that speech production and singing are supported by the same circuitry in the brain. Observations in a new study can help develop increasingly effective rehabilitation methods for patients with aphasia.
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News Update/Commentary
Biologists find what colors a butterfly's world
August 10, 2023 Science Daily
Study identifies first known gene change in sex-differentiated vision
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Human Breast Milk Is Designed for Both Mother and Baby
August 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The advantages of breast milk are piling up: alternatives are not near as healthy or protective
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The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces
August 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Origin of Life
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Suddenly, Mars Is Spinning Faster
August 9, 2023 Popular Mechanics
Martian days are mysteriously getting shorter. No one knows why.
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Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life
August 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
The Problem of Pain
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Can Information Be Separated from Intelligence? Part 1
August 9, 2023 Mind Matters
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms -- biological information -- as something that “does not really belong to science.”
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Ambitious observatory to probe universe’s most powerful particle accelerators
August 9, 2023 Science
Cherenkov Telescope Array will trace ferocious gamma ray light back to their cosmic sources
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Scientist admits the ‘overwhelming consensus’ on the climate change crisis is ‘manufactured’
August 9, 2023 New York Post
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Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter
August 9, 2023 The Conversation
with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota, we might one day be able to measure what dark matter really is
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The Monument Fold, Central Grand Canyon, Arizona
August 9, 2023 Answers Research Journal, v.16, p.301-432
Tapeats Sandstone beds are bent in the Monument fold exposed along the Colorado River in central Grand Canyon.
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Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?
August 9, 2023 Boston Review
Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.
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Scientists Find a Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor
August 9, 2023 Science Alert
Most recently, aquanauts on board a vessel from the Schmidt Ocean Institute used an underwater robot to turn over slabs of volcanic crust in the deep, dark Pacific.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Genome annotation: From human genetics to biodiversity genomics
August 9, 2023 Cell Genomics, v.3, n.8
Within the next decade, the genomes of 1.8 million eukaryotic species will be sequenced. Identifying genes in these sequences is essential to understand the biology of the species.
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‘Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims ‘Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down
August 9, 2023 Motherboard (Tech by Vice)
“I was feeling like I was dreaming. It seemed so unreal. This is because my results did not match any previous results," said astronomer Kyu-Hyun Chae.
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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit
August 9, 2023 The Guardian
Despite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way
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AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine
August 9, 2023 Wired
Robots, computers, and algorithms are hunting for potential new therapies in ways humans can’t -- by processing huge volumes of data and building previously unimagined molecules.
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Gullibility of Scientists Shown by Rip Van Winkle Roundworm
August 9, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What is it about belief in old ages that makes smart scientists lose common sense?
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In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help
August 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Is progressive ideology subverting biology?
August 8, 2023 Creation Ministries International
Evolutionists Jerry Coyne and Luana Maroja think so
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The short, spectacular life of that viral room-temperature superconductivity claim
August 8, 2023 Science
In just 2 weeks, unlikely “discovery” skyrockets to internet fame and then begins to fall back to Earth
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How a single human cell connects us to the spiritual essence of Carl Sagan’s cosmos
August 8, 2023 Big Think
In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe -- from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.
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The Mystery Genes That Are Keeping You Alive
August 8, 2023 Wired
Nobody knows what around a fifth of your genes actually do. It’s hoped they could hold the secret to fixing developmental disorders, cancer, neurodegeneration, and more.
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We know almost nothing about thousands of proteins in the human body
August 8, 2023 New Scientist
Scientists have created an “unknome" of proteins encoded by human genes, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not
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From time crystals to wormholes: When is a quantum simulation real?
August 8, 2023 New Scientist
Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure various exotic phenomena and are claiming that their creations are truly real. The work is forcing us to ask challenging questions about the nature of quantum reality
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News Update/Commentary
Whale-like filter-feeding discovered in prehistoric marine reptile
August 8, 2023 Science Daily
A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already using whale-like filter feeding 250 million years ago.
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Geological Evidences for a Young Earth -- Pt 1
August 8, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
The Creation Podcast: Episode 54