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Searching for life
October 16, 2013 Nature, v.502, p.272
a look into the past frames our attempts to find extraterrestrial intelligence
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Cosmic Whacks as Creative Forces
October 17, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
asteroid impacts are some astronomers’ answer to everything, except when they are shown to be unworkable
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A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo
October 18, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6156, p.326-331
an early Pleistocene adult skull illuminates the evolution and morphology of the first hominins outside Africa
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Roving into Martian Waters
October 18, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6156, p.304-306
Will the Curiosity rover discover an early Mars that was warm and wet and life-friendly or cold and icy and inhospitable?
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Past blast: The lost volcano that set off an ice age
October 18, 2013 New Scientist, n.2939, p.38-41
A volcano erupted so powerfully in the 13th century that it triggered global cooling, yet no one knew where it was. Have we cracked the puzzle at last?
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For instant climate change, just add one large comet
October 18, 2013 New Scientist, n.2939, p.10
two geologists claim atmospheric CO2 levels more than doubled in a single year 55 million years ago -- the speed makes a comet impact the likely culprit
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Cosmic chemistry: Life's molecules are made in space
October 21, 2013 New Scientist, n.2939, p.42-45
We used to think that the sort of chemistry that makes life could only happen on Earth. We were wrong.
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Next Generation: 5 Ways Science Classes Will Change
October 9, 2013 LiveScience
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S.C. school science standards get initial OK amid conflict over religion
October 9, 2013 Greenville, SC
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State educators push ahead with preparations for new science standards
October 13, 2013 kentucky.com
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Kentucky Education Committee Passes on Hearing Science Standards, Official Adoption Near
October 15, 2013 WFPL (Louisville, KY)
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News Update/Commentary
Big asteroid buzzes past Earth and will again in 19 years
October 18, 2013 CNN
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Is Darwinian Evolution "Indispensable" to Biology?
October 18, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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To Create Cambrian Animals, Whack the Earth from Space
October 18, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Texas: Publishers refuse to include creationism in science textbooks
October 19, 2013 examiner.com
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Big Bang Exterminator Wanted, Will Train
October 20, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Bee Brain Shows Design Matters Over Size
October 22, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
honeybees can be trained to grasp conceptual relationships, new experiments show, demonstrating that it’s not just brain size that governs ability
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Lord Kelvin Extolled as Giant of Science and Creationist
October 23, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
one of the eminent scientists of the 19th century was a Bible-believing creationist, the BBC agrees
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News Update/Commentary
Astronomers Discover the Most Distant Known Galaxy
October 23, 2013 Science Daily
galaxy seen as it was just 700 million years after Big Bang
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists confirm most distant galaxy ever
October 24, 2013 CNN
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News Update/Commentary
Bees Underwent Massive Extinctions When Dinosaurs Did
October 24, 2013 Science Daily
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Book
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
October 1, 2013 Bodley Head (Random House)
see also Amazon
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Teaching Creationism: Big Tex and T-Rex Weren’t Buddies
October 22, 2013 City Watch (Los Angeles)
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Palaeontology: The truth about T. rex
October 23, 2013 Nature, v.502, p.424-426
Even one of the best known dinosaurs has kept some secrets. Here is what palaeontologists most want to know about the famous tyrant.
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Chimp calls suggest language evolved from a song
October 23, 2013 New Scientist, n.2940, p.18
a stuffed python on a fishing line has revealed that chimpanzee alarm calls have intentional meaning rather than being involuntary expressions of emotion
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Complete skull of 1.8-million-year-old hominin found
October 23, 2013 New Scientist, n.2940, p.16
a full skull of a Homo erectus has been unearthed in Georgia, and it suggests a radical rethink of our evolutionary history
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No need for inflation if cosmos was a bouncing baby
October 23, 2013 New Scientist, n.2940, p.10
our universe could have bounced from the ashes of a dying cosmos, thanks to a push from a ghostly force, and without the help of inflation
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Reprogrammed bacterium speaks new language of life
October 23, 2013 New Scientist, n.2940, p.8-9
E. coli has had its cell machinery redesigned so that one of its genetic "words" -- or codons -- can now say whatever we want
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Palaeontology: Inside-out turned upside-down
October 24, 2013 Nature, v.502, p.457-458
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Palaeoanthropology: Small-brained and big-mouthed
October 24, 2013 Nature, v.502, p.452-453
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Icy origins for RNA copying?
October 24, 2013 Nature, v.502, p.412
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Earliest Known Galaxy Formed Stars at a Breakneck Pace
October 25, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6157, p.411
astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the earliest galaxy yet, dating from just 700 million years after the big bang, and conclude that it was forming stars at a furious rate 100 times that of th
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Ancient DNA Links Native Americans with Europe
October 25, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6157, p.409-410
ancient DNA from a Siberian boy offers surprising clues to the identity of the first Americans
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My verdict on Gaia hypothesis: beautiful but flawed
October 30, 2013 New Scientist, n.2940, p.30-31
we now have the evidence to pass judgement on James Lovelock's wildly popular notion that life engineers hospitable worlds, says oceanographer
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Gaia: The death of a beautiful idea
October 31, 2013 New Scientist, n.2940, p.5
the first major review of the evidence finds insufficient backing for the appealing Gaia hypothesis, but we should still celebrate its impact on research
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Book
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
November 1, 2013 Bodley Head (Random House)
see also Amazon
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Does Lightning-Fast Evolution Solve the Cambrian Enigma?
October 24, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Do You Make a Face? With Junk DNA
October 25, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Copernicus, You Are Not Going to Believe Who Is Using Your Name
October 28, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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What are Darwinian Evolutionists to Make of Craig Venter?
October 29, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Gold Rush's Poisonous Legacy: Mercury Will Linger for 10,000 Years
October 29, 2013 Yahoo! News (Live Science)
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Amazing Fossils, Dead and Alive
October 29, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Australia’s oldest bird tracks with dinosaurs, “living fossil” sponges and other strange and wonderful findings accentuate the news on natural history
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Earth-Like Planet More Like a Lava Lamp
October 31, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It might be an interesting place to visit on Star Trek, but you wouldn’t want to live there. Theoretically, it shouldn’t even exist.
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Alfred Russel Wallace, Nature's Prophet: From Natural Selection to Natural Theology
October 31, 2013 Alfred Russel Wallace Conference, Malaysia
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Creativity in the Cosmos
November 14, 2013 Cedar Park Church, Bothell, WA (Discovery Institute)
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Intelligent Design: Yesterday's Orthodoxy, Today's Heresy
November 14, 2013 Cornerstone Church, Ames, Iowa
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Overcoming Natural Evil with Good
November 1, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Things that bite and sting are not always 100% harmful. Maybe some of our categories of natural evil are due to ignorance.
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Book
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
August 1, 2013 MIT Press
see also Amazon
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Your face may have been sculpted by junk DNA
October 30, 2013 New Scientist, n.2941, p.19
genes drive the formation of a mouse's skull, but the final shape of the face is controlled by non-coding junk DNA
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Ancient mural may be first picture of volcanic blast
October 30, 2013 New Scientist, n.2941, p.14
an image daubed on a wall 8500 years ago has been interpreted as an exploding volcano -- now evidence shows the volcano really did erupt at the time