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Fear of a Liberal Arts Education
April 20, 2023 City Journal (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)
The college where I teach, like so many others around the country, seems to want students to be informers instead of free thinkers.
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The Moon: Formed in Just Hours?
April 24, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Algae in Swedish lakes provide insights to how complex life on Earth developed
April 24, 2023 Science Daily
By studying green algae in Swedish lakes, a research team has succeeded in identifying which environmental conditions promote multicellularity. The results give us new clues to the amazing paths of evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Colorado's spicy ancient history of chili peppers
April 21, 2023 Science Daily
A case of ‘the chicken or the chili pepper?' and coming to grips with a new timeline
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News Update/Commentary
Mudskippers could be key to understanding evolution of blinking
April 24, 2023 Science Daily
How and why did blinking originate? Researchers have studied the mudskipper, an amphibious fish that spends most of its day on land, to better understand why blinking is a fundamental behavior for life on land.
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News Update/Commentary
360-million-year-old Irish fossil provides oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood
April 21, 2023 Science Daily
Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss by forming special structures called ‘tyloses'. These prevent bacterial and fungal pathogens from getting into the heartwood of living trees and damaging it.
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News Update/Commentary
Grambank shows the diversity of the world's languages
April 19, 2023 Science Daily
An international team has created a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world's languages
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Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking
April 20, 2023 iai News
A new theory of embodied consciousness
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It's too soon to dump string theory
April 21, 2023 iai News
The truth of string theory
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Commentary: The benefits of being a maverick
November, 2022 Physics Today, v.75, n.11, p.10-11
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Our standard model of cosmology is both a triumph and a jumbled mess
April 20, 2023 Big Think
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
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Do JWST’s results contradict the Big Bang?
April 21, 2023 Big Think
JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?
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Comb jellies’ unique fused neurons challenge evolution ideas
April 20, 2023 Nature
Fused neurons suggest ctenophores’ nervous system evolved independently of that in other animals.
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Can ligating homochiral polypeptides explain the origin of homochiral biomolecules?
April, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Migratory birds use magnetic GPS
April, 2022 Creation Ministries International
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Weird skin-eating amphibians have no legs due to snake-like mutation
April 23, 2023 New Scientist
Worm-like amphibians called caecilians have a mutation in a genetic sequence that’s critical for limb development, which could explain how they became limbless
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Which of the physical sciences does CMI believe in?
November 24, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Women's small intestines are 30 centimetres longer than men's
April 24, 2023 New Scientist
A longer small intestine may improve the absorption of nutrients from our food, which may be required more during pregnancy or while breastfeeding
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We Will All Miss Ide Trotter
April 17, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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How Earth Cleans Itself
April 21, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists are surprised at new findings showing automatic cleanup of air and water
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Meyer, Klavan: Is Materialism Stuck in the Past?
April 15, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility
April 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Tutorial
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Evolutionist Claims ChatGPT “Lies About Junk DNA”
April 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Understanding Design Arguments
April 24, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
An Introduction for Catholics
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In Breath-Holding, Kate Winslet and a Croc Are Champions
April 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Uncommon Descent -- A Farewell and Remembrance
April 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Balance: Bipeds Need It; Where Did It Come From?
April 20, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites
April 21, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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When Catholics Argue for Intelligent Design
April 19, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Animal consciousness: why it’s time to rethink our human-centred approach
April 18, 2023 The Conversation
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Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed
April 19, 2023 Quanta Magazine
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. Geometry may explain why.
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Will AI ever reach human-level intelligence?
April 18, 2023 The Conversation
We asked five experts
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The Return of Paganism
May, 2023 Commentary
The spiritual crisis afflicting contemporary America has ancient and enduring roots -- and so does the cure
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The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them
April 8, 2023 Bloomberg
The Cassandras are out in force claiming artificial intelligence will be the end of mankind. They have a very good point.
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Modified theory of gravity eliminates the need for dark energy
April 19, 2023 Advanced Science News
Many physicists are still skeptical that dark energy can fully explain gravity, and are therefore exploring alternative theories.
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Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
April 19, 2023 Reuters
The relationship between the human mind and body has been a subject that has challenged great thinkers for millennia, including the philosophers Aristotle and Descartes.
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Miraculous Discovery in Spain: A Tailoring Tool from 40,000 Years Ago
April 13, 2023 Haaretz Newspaper (Israel)
For the first time, archaeologists have found evidence of the ability to create haute couture before the rise of the needle
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists track evolution of microbes on the skin's surface
April 12, 2023 Science Daily
A new analysis reveals how Staphylococcus aureus gains mutations that allow it to colonize eczema patches
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How Many Intergalactic Radio Stations Are Out There?
April 17, 2023 Universe Today
It has been over sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey.
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News Update/Commentary
Starting small and simple -- key to success for evolution of mammals
April 12, 2023 Science Daily
The ancestors of modern mammals managed to evolve into one of the most successful animal lineages -- the key was to start out small and simple, a new study reveals.
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News Update/Commentary
New mechanism for DNA folding
April 19, 2023 Science Daily
A hitherto unknown mechanism for DNA folding is described in a new study. The findings provide new insights into chromosomal processes that are vital to both normal development and to prevent disease.
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Swimming secrets of prehistoric reptiles unlocked by new study
April 18, 2023 Science Daily
The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed.
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News Update/Commentary
How can a pollinating insect be recognized in the fossil record?
April 17, 2023 Science Daily
Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit).
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The Myth of Objective Data
April 17, 2023 MIT Press Reader
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.
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The quantum egg that birthed the Universe
April 19, 2023 Big Think
What would become the Big Bang model started from a crucial idea: that the young Universe was denser and hotter.
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All of our “theories of everything” are probably wrong. Here’s why
April 18, 2023 Big Think
For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything" to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
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Tonga volcano eruption triggered ‘mega-tsunami’
April 14, 2023 Nature
Detailed analysis of the January 2022 event shows how underwater blasts generated huge waves that battered coastlines throughout the island nation.
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Private companies are flocking to the Moon -- what does that mean for science?
April 18, 2023 Nature
A raft of commercial lunar missions are taking off in 2023. The first lander is set to touch down this month, signalling a new era for Moon science and exploration.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fins
April 12, 2023 Nature, v.616, p.495-503
Skates are cartilaginous fish whose body plan features enlarged wing-like pectoral fins, enabling them to thrive in benthic environments. However, the molecular underpinnings of this unique trait remain unclear.
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AI science search engines are exploding in number -- are they any good?
April 17, 2023 Nature
Several search tools claim to help researchers do science.