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Can a Computer Write Your Novel? Well, What Do You Want to Say?
July 25, 2022 Mind Matters
These tools are sure to become a staple in the hot and time-sensitive market for boutique formula fiction
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Claim: We've Shown That Dogs Can Form “Abstract Concepts"
July 25, 2022 Mind Matters
It’s a good idea to be skeptical when any such claim is followed up with the assertion that humans “aren’t that cognitively unique after all.”
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Study Finds T. rex Should Remain One Species
July 25, 2022 American Museum of Natural History
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Ancient fossil is earliest known animal predator
July 25, 2022 BBC
The 560-million-year-old specimen, which was found in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, is likely a forerunner of cnidaria -- the group of species that today includes jellyfish.
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The Lonely Work of Picking the Universe’s Best Astronomy Pictures
July 12, 2022 New York Times
In June, specialists gathered in Baltimore to select images from the James Webb Space Telescope to share with the public. Keeping the results to themselves hasn’t been easy.
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Maintaining difference
July 21, 2022 Science v.377, n.6604, p.381-383
Ecotypes can persist over long time periods, even with substantial gene flow between them, which raises the question of how they maintain their locally adaptive phenotypes over time.
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Darwinspeak: An Excuse for Lazy Thinking
July 25, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin made it possible to become an intellectually fool-filled essayist
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News Update/Commentary
Competition limits the ranges of mountain birds
July 21, 2022 Science Daily
Citizen science data help clarify a longstanding puzzle
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Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire
July 25, 2022 New Scientist
A study that proposed Tyrannosaurus rex is three separate dinosaur species has been strongly disputed by another group of researchers, who say there was just one iconic tyrant lizard king
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News Update/Commentary
New study challenges old views on what's ‘primitive' in mammalian reproduction
July 25, 2022 Science Daily
Which group of mammals has the more ‘primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods?
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Astronomer Suggests It Is Time To Look for Near-Earth Asteroids in the Direction of the Sun
July 23, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Synthetic Tools Conduct Messages from Station to Station in DNA
July 25, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Jumping Genes ... a New Clue to Octopus Intelligence?
July 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Despite being very different, the human brain and the octopus brain share the same sort of jumping genes
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Big Brother Is Watching You (and Trying to Read Your Mind)
July 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Chinese researchers now claim to have developed technology that can read our minds
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New OpenAI Art Program Does Not Claim Copyright for AI
July 22, 2022 Mind Matters
As DALL-E 2, which generates blended images in response to key words, moves into the art world, a key question has just been settled
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Lab-Grown Brains Are Closer Now. Should They Have Rights?
July 22, 2022 Mind Matters
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Thrones Star Can Speak While Lacking “Quite a Bit" of Brain. How?
July 20, 2022 Mind Matters
Yes, Emilia Clarke is lucky her aneurysms weren’t worse but, given our brains’ complexity, how do our mental abilities survive?
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Claim: If Science Were Properly Presented, Trust Would Grow!
July 23, 2022 Mind Matters
The ideas examined in these four short essays all assume that scientists are exempt from the bias and self-interest that governs everyone else
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Artificial Neural Networks Can Show That the Mind Isn't the Brain
July 24, 2022 Mind Matters
Because artificial neural networks are a better version of the brain, whatever neural networks cannot do, the brain cannot do.
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How China's Pre-Crime Algorithms Work -- and Their Fatal Flaw
July 24, 2022 Mind Matters
The algorithms target, for example, those who complain about or draw attention to social injustices and abuses
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Exoplanets: As the Data Streams Back ... the Picture Comes In
July 23, 2022 Mind Matters
China is now focusing on the search for a planet like Earth, using the Earth 2.0 Telescope (ET). Astronomer Jian Ge believes his team can find 17
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Researchers: If We Tell Folks More About Science, They Trust Less
July 19, 2022 Mind Matters
Part 3: The researchers argue that doubts about science arise from conflict with beliefs. The many COVID-19 debacles suggest other causes…
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Hawaii's Lava Caves Are Teeming with Bacterial ‘Dark Matter'
July 21, 2022 Gizmodo
New research has found that the islands' volcanic environments are filled with a surprising diversity of bacterial life.
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Finding confident faith in the Bible: a response to Dr. Joshua Swamidass
April, 2021 Journal of Creation, v.35, n.1, p.54-60
Today, more than perhaps ever before in recorded history, ‘science’ and ‘faith’ are viewed as incompatible, and indeed competing, ideas. The former is viewed as an objective set of facts, while the latter is viewed as a set of feelings and emotions
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Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
July 21, 2022 Associated Press
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Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives
July 22, 2022 Daily Kos
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Video
Quantum Physics and the End of Reality
July 25, 2022 IAI Live YouTube Special
Can quantum physics explain consciousness?
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The First Look at Our New Astronomy Paradigm
July 12, 2022 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Five galaxies, two nebulae, an exoplanet, and the early universe -- JWST’s first images provide a cross section of the science yet to come.
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The mysterious inner life of the octopus
July 24, 2022 BBC
Octopuses are problem-solvers, mischief-makers and notorious escape artists. They also appear to have a rich inner life -- so what is it like to be an octopus?
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Time isn’t simply just another dimension
July 21, 2022 Big Think
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
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Humans are evolving a new artery
July 22, 2022 Big Think
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
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How to Search for Life on Mars
July 22, 2022 The New Atlantis
First, stop refusing to look.
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Blog Post
Does the Past Still Exist?
July 23, 2022 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Richard Lenski, E. coli, and the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE)
July 22, 2022 Answers in Genesis
Back in February 1988, Michigan State University biologist Richard Lenski began a long-term experiment to look at how repeatable evolution was.
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Blots on a Field?
July 21, 2022 Science
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease
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Peer-reviewed Paper
700,000 years of tropical Andean glaciation
July 13, 2022 Nature
Our understanding of the climatic teleconnections that drove ice-age cycles has been limited by a paucity of well-dated tropical records of glaciation that span several glacial–interglacial intervals.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic
July 20, 2022 Nature
A fundamental gap in the study of the origin of limbed vertebrates lies in understanding the morphological and functional diversity of their closest relatives.
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Sticklebacks may pass information learned from other fish to offspring
July 23, 2022 New Scientist
Stickleback fish can learn about predators by observing their peers. They may then be able to pass that information onto their offspring -- without ever interacting with them
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Hibernating beetles break down and regrow their muscles on demand
July 25, 2022 New Scientist
Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start flying in the spring
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News Update/Commentary
Moths enlist additional troops in an evolutionary arms race
July 21, 2022 Science Daily
A new study shows that ultrasound-producing moths are far more widespread than previously thought, adding three newly discovered sound-producing organs, eight new subfamilies and potentially thousands of species to the roster.
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News Update/Commentary
How the intestine replaces and repairs itself
July 22, 2022 Science Daily
A new study suggests that stem cells are able to integrate cues from their surroundings and coordinate their behavior across tissue through networks of vasculature in their close vicinity.
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Speciation and the great apes
July 23, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Many flawed papers in sedimentology
April, 2021 Creation Ministries International
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Human Evolution Under Marshall Law
July 22, 2022 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new law of nature falsifies human evolution -- and maybe all evolution
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Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People
July 22, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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Human Evolution in Action -- Or Is It Fake News?
November 16, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
Armed and Dangerous
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Listen: Median Artery and Evolution Hype
November 24, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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In Artificial and Biological Neural Networks, Intelligent Design Is Undeniable
July 25, 2022 Evolution News & Science Today
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How James Webb Space Telescope Data Have Already Revealed Surprises
July 21, 2022 Uncommon Descent
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Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People
July 22, 2022 Uncommon Descent