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Myth and the mind
March 15, 2021 Aeon
Saturated with rites and symbols, psychology feeds a deep human need once nourished by mythology
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Early humans may have turned to small game after wiping out big beasts
March 15, 2021 New Scientist
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Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
March 15, 2021 phys.org
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A New Theory Links Consciousness to Bioelectricity
March 15, 2021 Mind Matters
Consciousness as a function of bioelectric fields? That’s a remarkable idea because it includes the notion that our individual cells are conscious
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Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says
March 15, 2021 The Guardian
Archaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiens
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Canceled Science and the Limits of Science
March 15, 2021 ID the Future
Canceled Science author and physicist Eric Hedin sits down with host Eric Anderson to discuss what does and doesn’t constitute science, what nature can and can’t accomplish, and the use and abuse of consensus claims in determining scientific truth.
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Is Consciousness Everywhere?
March 15, 2021 The MIT Press Reader
Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself.
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Mammoth DNA: The Oldest Ever Found?
March 15, 2021 Institute for Creation Research
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Sexual Selection Fails to Explain Beauty
March 15, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Explaining beauty in the natural world by sexual selection: It has proven to be an exercise in futility
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Our Friend, Tom Bethell
March 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Thursday, March 18, Webinar: Has Science Buried God?
March 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Jonathan Wells Remembers Tom Bethell (1936-2021)
March 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
An early Darwin doubter in media
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Rob Sheldon Has Some Questions for the Multiverse
March 15, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
Lateral-to-sagittal shift in mammal spine evolution challenged in new study
March 15, 2021 Science Daily
A new study challenges the lateral-to-sagittal hypothesis by looking at the vertebrae of modern reptiles, mammals, and the extinct nonmammalian synapsids to determine how their vertebrae changed over time and its effect on how these creatures likely moved
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Booklist -- Meyer Offers “New Discoveries to Undermine” Science Atheists
March 15, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are Human Brain Transplants Even Possible?
March 14, 2021 Mind Matters
What would be the outcome if one person received transplants from the brains of others? If it’s not possible, there may be a good reason why not
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Science Goes Rogue
March 14, 2021 Quillette
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‘Woke’ Science Has No Place in Government Policymaking
March 14, 2021 American Greatness
There are two problems with public officials legitimizing “soft science” as the basis for policy making: It often fails to arrive at the right answers and it can undermine public trust.
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Mindless Artificial Intelligence Doesn’t Understand What It Says
March 14, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A uniquely human capacity is to understand what one says. Artificial intelligence doesn’t get it.
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The Woke Are Now Pushing Chants to Aztec Gods in California Schools
March 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Archaea Microbes Have Genes Like Flexible Slinkies
March 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Bob Jones University Prez Fires Back at Swamidass Re Doxxing Creationists
March 14, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Debate: Do the Successes of Science Count Against Theism?
March 13, 2021 YouTube
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Science Discovery: The Non-Existence of Harmful Proteins
March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Sabine Hossenfelder Reassures Us That Schrodinger’s Cat Is Still Not Dead
March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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More on the “Smaller Prey” Theory of How Human Brains Got So Big
March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Non-Darwinian Biology Teachers Need To Be Targeted for “Professional Development”
March 13, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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Chaitin's Discovery of a Way of Describing True Randomness
March 12, 2021 Mind Matters
He found that concepts from computer programming worked well because, if the data is not random, the program should be smaller than the data
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News Update/Commentary
Traces of Earth's early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks
March 12, 2021 Science Daily
New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence -- preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland -- which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten.
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Wikipedia's Bias Meets a Free-Speech Alternative
March 12, 2021 Mind Matters
The famously free encyclopaedia’s pages on abortion, communism, and historical figures reveal a left-leaning bias
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Structural and functional characterization of a putative de novo gene in Drosophila
March 12, 2021 Nature Communications
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Genetics Proves Absurdity of Whale Evolution
March 12, 2021 Answers in Genesis
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In Memoriam: John C. Polkinghorne (1930-2021)
March 12, 2021 Templeton Prize
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Many Deep-Sea Microbes Invisible to Mammalian Immune System
March 12, 2021 The Scientist
In a new study, human and mouse cells recognized only one in five bacterial species collected from more than a mile below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.
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Lamprey Larvae Are Not Vertebrate Ancestors
March 12, 2021 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Another case of Haeckel-like recapitulation turns out to be false. Lamprey larvae are not relics of our ancestors.
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News Update/Commentary
How protein essential for male fertility emerged
March 12, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have analysed the evolutionary history of how a protein -- which is essential for the fertility of male fruit flies and emerged from previously non-coding DNA became functional and took on a relatively stable structure.
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Deplatforming Isaac Newton
March 12, 2021 Uncommon Descent
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We May Never Find Life on Mars -- And That Could Be a Good Thing
March 12, 2021 Air & Space (Smithsonian)
Perseverance, the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter
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We Don’t Live in a Multiverse Because the Concept Makes No Sense
March 12, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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Early Mars fluctuated between long periods of cold and short periods of warmth
March 12, 2021 Harvard School of Engineering
Model helps constrain circumstances under which life could have emerged on Mars
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Stephen Meyer: Why You Should Pre-Order Return of the God Hypothesis Now
March 12, 2021 Evolution News & Science Today
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2023 ICC Call for Papers
March 11, 2021 International Conference on Creationism
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What fueled humans' big brains?
March 11, 2021 Live Science
Controversial paper proposes new hypothesis
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Science and Creationism in Serious Colleges
March 11, 2021 Wall Street Journal
Dr. Swamidass’s unilateral demands for a “principled compromise” and “higher standards” for Christian colleges and accrediting associations do not center on science, as he misleadingly claims, but rather on scientific models and the evidence for them.
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Archaea microbes fold, twist and contort their DNA in extreme ways
March 11, 2021 Science News
The maneuvers could help these single-celled organisms get easy access to their genes
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The science of terrible men
March 11, 2021 Aeon
The pioneers of social genetics were racists and eugenicists: should we give up on the science they founded altogether?
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Seventeen “Extinct” European Plant Species Found Alive
March 11, 2021 The Scientist
Plant species officially reported to be lost are in fact persevering in the wild, in seed banks or botanical gardens, or as other species now recognized to be taxonomic synonyms.
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Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
March 11, 2021 Quanta Magazine
Spurred on by quantum experiments that scramble the ordering of causes and their effects, some physicists are figuring out how to abandon causality altogether.
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News Update/Commentary
How critical part of lung forms at cellular level
March 11, 2021 Science Daily
Knowing which cells are involved in the formation of healthy lung tissue at birth may provide a basis for therapies that help regenerate a critical portion of the lung
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News Update/Commentary
Eye color genetics not so simple, study finds
March 11, 2021 Science Daily
Researchers have identified 50 new genes for eye color in a study involving the genetic analysis of almost 195,000 people across Europe and Asia.