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Claim: Language Originated in Hand Gestures
February 5, 2023 Uncommon Descent
How Do We Know?
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Are Crows Really As Smart As 7 Year Old Children?
February 5, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Scientists grew mini human guts inside mice
February 4, 2023 ars technica
Tiny organoids with working immune systems mimic the function of the GI tract.
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Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don’t Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?
February 3, 2023 The Scientist
The Scientist spoke with Jonathan Kagan about his idea that immune cells respond to “errors” made by unsuccessful pathogens, not the pathogens themselves.
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Centuries-Old Archive Reveals Far-Flung Impacts of Major Eruptions
February 3, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Weather records preserved by staff and students at Williams College reveal cool spells in New England after volcanic blasts in Indonesia and South Asia.
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What Can't A.I. Do? Quite a Lot, Actually
February 3, 2023 Mind Matters
NYT columnist David Brooks makes a list of uniquely human skills that students should develop in college
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Have any of Earth’s creatures stopped evolving?
February 3, 2023 Genetic Literacy Project
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What are white holes, and do they really exist?
February 3, 2023 Big Think
In General Relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
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Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways
February 3, 2023 Nature
Some bacteria appear to encase their genomes in proteins called histones -- which weren’t thought to exist in bacterial cells.
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Book
On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 2
February 3, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022). | See Also Amazon
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The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)
February 3, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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How do you make a mummy?
February 2, 2023 NBC News
A new study sheds light on the embalming process -- and the ancient trade links that made it all possible.
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Dallas Conference: What Does “The Science” Really Say about Faith?
February 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Dubious Views on Octopus Evolution
February 2, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Book
On the Origin of Speciesism, Part 1
February 2, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
REVIEW: Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism Is Pushing Planetary Boundaries by Brian Swartz and Brent D. Mishler, eds. (Springer, 2022). | See Also Amazon
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NASA Persecution Case Reaches a Grim Anniversary
February 2, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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ChatGPT is great -- you’re just using it wrong
February 2, 2023 The Conversation
It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake.
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The good reasons scientists are so hostile to new ideas
February 2, 2023 Big Think
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here's why we don't buy it.
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Unbalanced Allele Expression Associated with Mutation, Disease
February 2, 2023 The Scientist
A study identifies nearly 3,000 genes where one allele tends to be expressed more than the other, but the findings ignited controversy in the field.
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There is no problem of consciousness
February 2, 2023 iai News
Consciousness is hidden in plain sight
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Fossils Explain the Evolution of Earth Life During the Early Cambrian Period
February 1, 2023 Astrobiology
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation
February 1, 2023 Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v.290, n.1992
The principal animal lineages (phyla) diverged in the Cambrian, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500 Myr. Annelid worms seem to exemplify this pattern
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A Manufactured New Sin: Speciesism
February 1, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new thought crime takes direct aim at Genesis and human exceptionalism
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By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism
February 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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ChatGPT Violates Its Own Model
February 1, 2023 Mind Matters
Based on these exchanges, we can at least say the chatbot is more than just the ChatGPT neural network
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News Update/Commentary
319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal
February 1, 2023 Science Daily
The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.
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News Update/Commentary
The bubbling universe: A previously unknown phase transition in the early universe
February 1, 2023 Science Daily
What happened shortly after the universe was born in the Big Bang and began to expand? Bubbles occurred and a previously unknown phase transition happened, according to particle physicists.
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Geneticists Light Up Debate on Salmon Conservation
February 1, 2023 The Scientist
Splitting Chinook salmon into two groups based on their DNA could aid conservation efforts. But some researchers argue that this would be a misuse of the data.
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Could a hidden variable explain the weirdness of quantum physics?
February 1, 2023 Big Think
We have searched and searched but have never found one.
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3 new studies indicate a conflict at the heart of cosmology
February 1, 2023 Big Think
The Universe isn't as “clumpy" as we think it should be.
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Theistic Evolution Is Not the Real Problem!
February 1, 2023 Answers in Genesis
The billions of years timeline undergirds the secular attack on the Bible.
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Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month
February 1, 2023 New Scientist
The extinct straight-tusked elephant was even larger than modern African elephants, making it unclear if Neanderthal hunters could take one down, but a newly analysed trove of bones suggests it was possible
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Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences
February 1, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Video
Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator
February 1, 2023 YouTube
In this wide-ranging conversation, they point out the flaws in Darwin’s theory and the increasing amount of evidence uncovered by a rigorous application of the scientific method that points to an intentional design and creation of the physical world.
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Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time
February 1, 2023 University of Florida
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Neanderthals lived in groups big enough to eat giant elephants
February 1, 2023 Science
Meat from the butchered beasts would have fed hundreds
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Fish fossil unfolds clues to vertebrate brain evolution
February 1, 2023 Nature
A 319-million-year-old fossil provides the oldest known evidence of preserved vertebrate brain tissue. This specimen offers insights into the brain evolution of ray-finned fishes, the most diverse group of living vertebrates.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain
February 1, 2023 Nature
Here we report brain and cranial nerve soft-tissue preservation in Coccocephalus wildi, an approximately 319-million-year-old ray-finned fish.
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The Milky Way in spellbinding detail and more -- January’s best science images
February 1, 2023 Nature
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Blinded by a Defunct Theory
January 31, 2023 Mind Matters
The “interaction problem" is everywhere we look in physics, but the dogma of materialism remains
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DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks
January 31, 2023 New Scientist
Artificial intelligences need specific training to excel at a task, but now a more generally intelligent one from DeepMind has performed as well as humans in a virtual world test
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News Update/Commentary
With rapidly increasing heat and drought, can plants adapt?
January 31, 2023 Science Daily
One plant that successfully invaded deserts was already adapted to life on arid rock outcrops
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe
January 31, 2023 Science Daily
Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey, South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe
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How Scientific Is ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Science?
January 31, 2023 American Council on Science and Health
its luster has become tarnished by greed -- the desire of the research community to tap into research funds, the pressure on scientists to publish or perish, and publishers of scientific journals seeking to maximize profits
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Unidentified aerial annoyance: Full disclosure or dubious UFO nonsense?
January 31, 2023 space.com
Whatever is at play here, organizations are taking close encounters with weirdness seriously.
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‘Less clumpy’ universe may suggest existence of mysterious forces
January 31, 2023 The Guardian
Survey could mean there is a crucial component missing from so-called standard model of physics
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‘De-Extinction’ Company Will Try to Bring Back the Dodo
January 31, 2023 Gizmodo
Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth -- an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back.
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New Engineering Ideas from Biology
January 31, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Does This Mineral Indicate Oxygen on Mars?
January 30, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Manganese oxides are thought to be a signature of atmospheric oxygen. But on the Red Planet, recent results suggest they might be more of a red herring.
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars
January 30, 2023 Quanta Magazine
Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them.