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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
August 1, 2012 W. W. Norton
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Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex
August 1, 2012 Oneworld
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Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did
August 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2879, p.11
not content with learning sign language or coining "words", Kanzi the bonobo now seems able to make flint tools as well as our ancestors did
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The all-time greatest popular science books
August 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2879, p.3
we're asking for your votes to help us decide which popular science books have done the most to transform public thinking
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DNA could have existed long before life itself
August 24, 2012 New Scientist, n.2879, p.12
the idea that life began with RNA -- simpler than DNA -- looks less certain now that a DNA-like molecule has been made from basic compounds
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Location of the mind remains a mystery
August 29, 2012 New Scientist, n.2880, p.9
a patient who preserved their self-awareness despite extensive brain damage suggests that our map of the brain needs rethinking
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Arctic ice low heralds end of 3-million-year cover
August 31, 2012 New Scientist, n.2880, p.6-7
the consequences of what is arguably the greatest environmental change in human history will extend far beyond the North Pole
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Feedback: God saves the Loch Ness monster
August 31, 2012 New Scientist, n.2879, p.64
creationism meets Nessie
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
September 1, 2012 Basic Books
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The shape of life: Biology's biggest mystery
September 4, 2012 New Scientist, n.2880, p.38-41
how plants and animals form their astonishing variety of shapes has long been an enigma, but we are finally making progress
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What counts as a conscious thinking machine?
September 5, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.18
AI pioneer Ben Goertzel on artificial consciousness and how we will know when it has finally arrived
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Tutankhamun's death and the birth of monotheism
September 5, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.10
the boy king may have died from an inherited form of epilepsy, which also encouraged his father to found the earliest single-god religion
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Evolution could explain the placebo effect
September 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.9
your mind may be able to switch your immune response into high gear, with a placebo as the trigger, a new evolutionary model suggests
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Don't junk the 'junk DNA' just yet
September 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.3
the ENCODE project has revealed that 80 per cent of our genome does something, but doing something is not the same as doing something useful
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Lush Antarctic past suggests more monsoons in future
September 12, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.9
tropical plant fossils in Antarctica hints at a monsoon climate -- similar to modern-day South Asia -- during the warm Eocene period, 34 million years ago
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Dinosaur-inspired upgrades add bite to wind turbines
September 15, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.16
Siemens unveils three designs to boost the power of old turbine blades by tweaking their aerodynamics
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Is medical science built on shaky foundations?
September 17, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.24-25
more than half of biomedical findings cannot be reproduced ... we urgently need a way to ensure that discoveries are properly checked
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The Social Conquest of Earth
April 1, 2012 Liveright (W. W. Norton)
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Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
May 1, 2012 Basic Books
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Reproduction in Early Amniotes
August 17, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6096, p.806-808
recent fossil finds help to explain why the early fossil record is dominated by live-bearing amniotes, although live-bearing amniotes evolved later than egg-laying ones
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Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family
August 24, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6097, p.957-960
spatial models of language lineage evolution support an Anatolian homeland for Indo-European languages
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Dinosaur Kingpin Opens Fossil Bonanza to Science
August 24, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6097, p.900-901
Zheng Xiaoting has single-handedly built one of the most important fossil collections in the world. This treasure in the Chinese countryside is beginning to draw paleontologists from near and far.
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Ancient DNA: A Crystal-Clear View of an Extinct Girl's Genome
August 31, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6098, p.1028-1029
researchers report that they have sequenced the genome of an archaic Siberian girl 31 times over, using a new method that amplifies single strands of DNA
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China's dinosaur hunter: The ground breaker
September 6, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.22-25
as he revolutionizes ideas about dinosaur evolution, Xing Xu is helping to make china into a palaeontological powerhouse
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We must be open about our mistakes
September 6, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.7
greater transparency about the scientific process and a closer focus on correcting defective data are the way forward
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ENCODE Project Writes Eulogy for Junk DNA
September 7, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6099, p.1159-1161
this week, 30 research papers, including six in Nature and additional papers published online by Science, sound the death knell for the idea that our DNA is mostly littered with useless base
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Misconduct ruling is silent on intent
September 13, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.189-190
psychologist Marc Hauser admits errors but not fraud
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Scientific Misconduct: Government Sanctions Harvard Psychologist
September 14, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6100, p.1283
last week, the Office of Research Integrity confirmed that Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser fabricated and falsified methods and data in six federally funded studies
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Before the Dinosaurs' Demise, a Clambake Extinction?
September 14, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6100, p.1280
new evidence from the sea floor just off Antarctica points to a major extinction there a geologic moment before the huge cosmic impact 65.5 million years ago that killed the dinosaurs
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The oldest evidence of bioturbation on Earth
May 1, 2012 Geology, v.40, n.5, p.395-398
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ENCODE Study Forces Evolutionists to Retract “Junk DNA” Myth
September 6, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
at least 80% of the human genome is functional, scientists now say, based on a genetic survey called ENCODE that may force reassessment of what a gene is
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Jerusalem Cistern Found from First Temple Era
September 10, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a huge cistern near the Temple Mount has been found that was part of Solomon’s Temple complex
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If Morality Evolved, Is It Righteous?
September 12, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolutionists are determined to keep morality from succeeding as a defeater for natural selection.
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Geological Dates Collapse
September 13, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
two papers in Geology this month cast serious doubt on assumptions used to date rocks.
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News to Note
September 15, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Evolutionary Fish Story
September 16, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
similar-looking blind fish couldn’t have swum across the world, so did they evolve separately
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Bob Ballard Throws Out Textbooks for a Living
September 17, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an interview with oceanographer Bob Ballard shows him taking glee at proving the scientific consensus wrong
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Man Is Man and Ape Is Ape: The Gulf Widens
September 18, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
now that “human ancestors” from 300,000 years ago show comparable mental acuity to ours, the gradual upward slope to man looks more like a cliff
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Pristine Wood Found in Diamond Crater
September 19, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a kimberlite crater in Canada, said to be 53 million years old, yielded exquisitely preserved unfossilized wood
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Warmonger or idealist: the roots of human conflict
September 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.40-43
Homo sapiens is not a particularly violent species -- we just have more worth fighting for than other animals
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Truth decay: The half-life of facts
September 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.36-39
much of what we believe to be factual has an expiration date, but the good news is that we can see it coming
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Climate change determined humanity's global conquest
September 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.12
modern humans only made it out of Africa when the changing climate made the Arabian desert passable -- the rest of our migrations were climate-dependent too
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Extreme weather
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.335-336
better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming
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Studies slow the human DNA clock
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.343-344
revised estimates of mutation rates bring genetic accounts of human prehistory into line with archaeological data
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Retraction record rocks community
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.346-347
anaesthesiology tries to move on after fraud investigations
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Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.427-430
economic games are used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying cooperative behaviour, and show that intuition supports cooperation in social dilemmas, whereas reflection can undermine these cooperative impul
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Did Neandertals Truly Bury Their Dead?
September 21, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6101, p.1443-1444
new excavations in France are reexamining whether Neandertals buried their dead, an issue that many researchers had long thought was itself dead and buried
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Warped Light Reveals Infant Galaxy on the Brink of the 'Cosmic Dawn'
September 21, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6101, p.1442
Astronomers have recently spotted a galaxy dating back to a mere 500 million years after the big bang. It sets a new record for most distant object sighted by astronomers.
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News to Note
September 22, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Animals are conscious and should be treated as such
September 24, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.24-25
now that scientists have belatedly declared that mammals, birds and many other animals are conscious, it is time for society to act