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Free Will and Decision Making
April 20, 2024 YouTube
What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among options or choices usually based on certain criteria. It would seem that, in principle, decision-making can exist outside of free will
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Blog Post
Consciousness and the Dennett Paradox
April 20, 2024
Daniel Dennett died yesterday, April 19, 2024. When he argues that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrates, paradoxically, how conscious he is, and he makes his audience more conscious.
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Exploring Microbial Dark Matter
April 19, 2024 The Scientist
An open-source search engine helps scientists identify hundreds of microbial metabolites in a matter of seconds.
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The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way
April 19, 2024 New York Times
Every new generation of eyes sees a new version of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
April 19, 2024 New Scientist
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought
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Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
April 19, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness needs a rethink
April 19, 2024 Nature
A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is ‘a realistic possibility’ for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs.
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Why Determinism Fails (You are Free to Disagree!)
April 19, 2024 YouTube
Are humans physical machines determined by the laws of chemistry and physics? Has science shown that free will is a myth? Sean and Scott invite Biola philosophy professor Greg Ganssle to discuss the recent book Determined by Robert Sapolsky.
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness
April 19, 2024 Quanta Magazine
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.
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Bayesian Balance
April 19, 2024 Skeptic
how a tool for Bayesian thinking can guide us between relativism and the truth trap
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How the unlikely friendship of Pauli and Jung led to the discovery of CPT symmetry
April 19, 2024 Nature Reviews Physics
In 1931, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung took on an unusual patient, the brilliant young physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. Arthur I. Miller tells the story of their friendship, how they impacted each other’s work, and reflects on creativity.
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New Evidence Noah’s Flood REALLY Happened
April 19, 2024 YouTube
new Grand Canyon research confirms the Bible and debunks what atheists have been telling you. Andrew Snelling shares new research that points to the layers in the Grand Canyon being formed during the biblical flood.
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William Lane Craig's mytho-history
April 18, 2024 YouTube
critical discussion on Craig's book The Quest for the Historical Adam
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What's the Essence of Consciousness?
April 18, 2024 YouTube
Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else. But what is consciousness, the essence of consciousness, at its most fundamental level?
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Modified Gravity Strikes Back
April 18, 2024 YouTube
Most astrophysics are pretty convinced that 80% of the matter in the universe is some invisible stuff that they can’t detect -- dark matter.
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Moroccan Dinosaurs in Marine Rocks, Too
April 18, 2024 Institute for Creation Research
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Survival of the Nicest? Now They Tell Us.
April 18, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Struggle for existence? No; love makes the world go round
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Use Artificial Intelligence to Challenge Evolution
April 18, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
Science Paper
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Book
Imagining other worlds
April 18, 2024 Science, v.384, n.6693, p.278
An astronomer offers a vivid portrait of exoplanet landscapes | See Also Macmillan
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News Update/Commentary
RNA's hidden potential: New study unveils its role in early life and future bioengineering
April 18, 2024 Science Daily
Study sheds light on the molecular evolution of RNA and its potential applications in nanobiotechnology.
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Some White Dwarfs Might be Older than Previously Thought
April 18, 2024 Physics Magazine
A process that reheats some white dwarfs might mean they are much older than previously thought, indicating a potential need to recalculate the age of stellar populations such as the Milky Way.
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Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
April 17, 2024 New Scientist
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but simple organisms with a multicellular life stage offer intriguing clues
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Mutations Battle Living Fossils
April 17, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Attempts to harmonize living fossil research with mutation research fail
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic variant identified that shaped the human skull base
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
This study provides a greater understanding of human disease and evolution.
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Drawing a line back to the origin of life
April 17, 2024 University of Cambridge
molecules, vital to the development of life, could have formed from a process known as graphitisation. Once verified in the laboratory, it could allow us to try and recreate plausible conditions for life's emergence.
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How Does Pure Math Generate Matter?
April 17, 2024 YouTube
How does pure mathematics generate matter? And how did the Big Bang arise from nothing? No matter how much we know about physics and how deeply we understand the Universe, there are still many fundamental questions that no one has answers to.
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An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
April 17, 2024 New York Times
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human -- defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a ‘bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.
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The universe may be dominated by particles that break causality and move faster than light
April 17, 2024 Live Science
With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than light, may dominate the cosmos.
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Ancient human evolution is “unparalleled” in nature
April 17, 2024 Cosmos Magazine
Interspecies competition in ancient humans saw an evolutionary trend that is the complete opposite of almost all other vertebrates, according to a new study.
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The sympathetic nervous system arose in the earliest vertebrates
April 17, 2024 Nature
The sympathetic nervous system, which enables the fight-or-flight response, was thought to be present only in jawed vertebrates. Analysis of a jawless vertebrate suggests that this system might be a feature of all animals with a spine.
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Humans and their livestock have sheltered in this Saudi Arabian cave for 10,000 years
April 17, 2024 Nature
Saudi herders have travelled the same routes for millennia, cave discovery suggests.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction
April 17, 2024 Nature Microbiology
Bacterial chemotaxis requires bidirectional flagellar rotation at different rates. Rotation is driven by a flagellar motor, which is a supercomplex containing multiple rings.
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Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert
April 17, 2024 New Scientist
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia
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Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data
April 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits
April 17, 2024 Nature, v.628, p.811-817
Hybridization allows adaptations to be shared among lineages and may trigger the evolution of new species. However, convincing examples of homoploid hybrid speciation remain rare
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Surprise hybrid origins of a butterfly species
April 17, 2024 Nature
Mating between different species has often been considered an evolutionary dead end, but a study in longwing butterflies suggests that such hybridization could underlie the origins of a new species.
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News Update/Commentary
New butterfly species created 200,000 years ago by two species interbreeding
April 17, 2024 Science Daily
Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species breeding together almost 200,000 years ago.
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Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life
April 17, 2024 The Conversation
my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there
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Physicist Studying SARS-CoV-2 Virus Believes He Has Found Hints We Are Living in a Simulation
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Studying the evolution of the virus, he found signs that the information entropy decreased over time.
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Utah Versus Nature Rights
April 17, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today
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This Lava Tube in Saudi Arabia Has Been a Human Refuge for 7,000 Years
April 17, 2024 New York Times
Ancient humans left behind numerous archaeological traces in the cavern, and scientists say there may be thousands more like it on the Arabian Peninsula to study.
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Did Homo Erectus Have Language, Build Boats, and Sail Across Oceans?
April 17, 2024 IFL Science
Humans may have had language for millions of years.
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Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain -- here's how they move
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system
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How did life on Earth begin? Cracks may have been the key.
April 16, 2024 Washington Post
In a groundbreaking experiment in the early 1950s, a scientist tried to re-create the conditions of early Earth in a test tube.
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News Update/Commentary
Seed ferns: Plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago
April 16, 2024 Science Daily
Flowering plant-type leaf veins died out and re-evolved several times in the course of the Earth's history
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A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
April 16, 2024 New Scientist
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge
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National Geographic’s Article Misses the Boat
April 16, 2024 Answers in Genesis
Is the account of the Ark of Noah plausible?
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Intact Dinosaur Molecules Found
April 16, 2024 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A skeptic’s own lab proves that amino acids came from the original dinosaur
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New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance
April 16, 2024 Evolution News & Science Today