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| RECENT ARTICLES - September 2018 |
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| PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY |
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| Scientists hunt mysterious 'dark force' to explain hidden realm of the cosmos |
The Guardian |
| Dark energy is the biggest mystery in cosmology, but it may not exist at all - leading physicist |
Horizon Magazine |
| What is Dark Matter? Even the Best Theories Are Crumbling |
Discover Magazine Blogs |
| Black holes in a box do not behave like string theorists think they should |
Back Reaction |
| Early Sun's 'Goldilocks' Rotation Rate May Be Why We're Here |
Forbes |
| What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality? |
Scientific American |
| A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory |
Quanta Magazine |
| Review of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder |
Physics World |
| There is neither space nor time |
Nautilus |
| The crisis inside the physics of time |
Nautilus |
| Will increasingly sophisticated computer simulation “end” theoretical physics as we know it? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The fight over the universe has turned ugly, with accusations of “cheating” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Suarez: Quantum nonlocal correlations come from outside space-time |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Scientific American: Quantum theory does not require a conscious observer |
Uncommon Descent |
| Universe fine-tuned for carbon, hence life, says astronomer |
Uncommon Descent |
| Refining intergalactic measurements could alter our whole understanding of physics |
Horizon Magazine |
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| EARTH SCIENCES/GEOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY |
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| A Beautiful, Wonderful Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle? |
Evolution News |
| More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal |
Evolution News |
| Fossils Can Mislead Big Time |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Researchers: Fossil record “dramatically distorted” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Middle-Late Triassic insect radiation revealed by diverse fossils and isotopic ages from China |
Science Magazine |
| A Big Bang of insects in the mid-to-late Triassic |
Uncommon Descent |
| Earth's oldest animals formed complex ecological communities |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: As soon as macroscopic life evolved, it formed communities |
Uncommon Descent |
| Did Dinosaurs Evolve into Birds? |
Answers in Genesis |
| The mystery of the dinosaur with crocodile jaws, bear claws and a sail |
New Scientist |
| Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution |
Science Daily |
| Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal |
Science Daily |
| Fossilized Lipids Confirm Dickinsonia as One of the Earliest Animals |
The Scientist |
| 4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Offer Clues to the Origins of Life |
National Geographic |
| Darwinists Use Fossils as Props for Propaganda |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Fossil evidence of large flowering trees in N. America 15 million years earlier |
Science Daily |
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| BIOLOGY / BIOCHEMISTRY / CHEMISTRY |
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| Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans |
Evolution News |
| Scientific Evidence Against a Naturalistic Origin of Life |
Richard M. Evans |
| Did key building blocks for life come from deep space? |
Science Daily |
| A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life |
Nature |
| Well established theories on patterns of evolution might be wrong |
Science Daily |
| Jerry Coyne continues to be unhappy over David Quammen’s book on Carl Woese |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Darwin Didn't Know About Evolution |
National Geographic |
| Darwin’s Vigilantes: Fred Reed on why Darwinism persists |
Uncommon Descent |
| Silly Darwin Stories Never Rebuked by Big Science, Big Media |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| New “fixed” bacterial Tree of Life looks like a cityscape |
Uncommon Descent |
| No evolution of sulfur-cycling bacteria |
Creation.com |
| A Twice-Retracted Paper on Sex Differences Ignites Debate |
The Scientist |
| Neutron scattering to help with study of cell membranes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Genome duplication drives evolution of species |
Science Daily |
| Gut bacteria's shocking secret: They produce electricity |
Science Daily |
| World's simplest animals as different from each other as humans and mice |
Uncommon Descent |
| From Mancuso’s lab, we learn that plants are “information processing organisms.” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Birds' voiceboxes are odd ducks: Nothing has a voicebox quite like a bird's |
Science Daily |
| The Design Packed Into a Fruit Fly |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Complex Organisms are Degenerating - Rapidly |
Detecting Design |
| Is the human body badly designed? |
Creation.com |
| Is the Human Body Poorly Designed? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Cells Use Elaborate Math to Adapt |
ICR |
| Critic of Intelligent Design Acknowledges: "Bad Design" Arguments Don't Work |
Evolution News |
| Rare genetic disorders more complex than thought |
Science Daily |
| Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New |
Evolution News |
| A mosaic of characters in a new Early Cretaceous bird |
PNAS |
| Effects from genetic mutations can vary dramatically from individual to individual |
Science Daily |
| Darwinism Makes Human Ancestors Out to Be Morons |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Researchers: Primate relationships more complex than thought |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Your DNA Is Still Uncharted Territory |
NY Times |
| "Mutations Drive Evolution" |
Answers in Genesis |
| Genetic determinism rides again |
Nature |
| Can you evolve while being robust? Biophysical constraints on evolvability and robustness uncovered |
Science Daily |
| Is the octopus a “second genesis of intelligence”? |
Mind Matters |
| Lizards Pre-Programmed to Adapt Their Coloration |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Peter Ward: Epigenetics explains why there are fewer “species” than we think |
Uncommon Descent |
| A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals |
The Scientist |
| Stray proteins cause genetic disorders: Misaddressed proteins are mislocalized, with possibly fatal consequences for the cell |
Science Daily |
| Neutron scattering: A window into the development of living cells |
Uncommon Descent |
| Deadly plant's flowers in amber deadly to evolution |
Creation.com |
| Imitating Silk: Ultra strong with passive cooling |
Uncommon Descent |
| Humans may have only 19,000 coding genes |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists Play Favorites with Studying Human Genes. Here's Why. |
The Scientist |
| Evolutionary origins of animal biodiversity |
Science Daily |
| Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks |
Evolution News |
| Astrobiology Survives on Passionate Hope |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Evolutionary shift toward protein-based architecture in trypanosomal mitochondrial ribosomes |
Science Daily |
| Eyes have a natural version of night vision |
Science Daily |
| Jeanson's comments on Replacing Darwin debate |
Answers in Genesis |
| Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances |
Science Daily |
| High-resolution genomic map gives scientists unprecedented view of brain development |
Science Daily |
| Massive Animal Sequencing Effort Releases First Set of Genomes |
The Scientist |
| New Study Identifies Possible Ancestors of RNA |
Astrobiology Magazine |
| Jumping genes drive changes in strawberries. In sex chromosomes. |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| How Darwin gave rise to the now-troubled Six Emotions theory |
Mind Matters |
| How Darwinism played a role in misreading emotions |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Talking Ape Who Couldn't Really Talk |
ICR |
| Why apes can't talk: our study suggests they've got the voice but not the brains |
The Conversation |
| Neanderthal Mocking Had No Basis |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave |
The Guardian |
| "Oldest Known Drawing," and More Cases of Intelligent Design at Work in Science |
Evolution News |
| Earliest known rock drawing at 73,000 years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Claim for early humans in Madagascar disputed |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years |
Science Daily |
| Dispute over recent find of tools on Madagascar from 10,500 ya |
Uncommon Descent |
| 3 Million Year Old Footprints Suggest Human-Like Walking Evolved Long Before Humans Did |
Science 2.0 |
| Sociophysics and Econophysics, the Future of Social Science? |
JSTOR Daily |
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| PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY |
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| Why Atheism was central to the Great Evil of the 20th Century |
Commentary Magazine |
| How To Spot A Bad Scientific Theory |
Forbes |
| On Biology of the Second Reich, New York Times Misses the Elephant in the Room |
Evolution News |
| The world naturalism prevents us from seeing |
Uncommon Descent |
| What Is Threatening Science? |
Project Syndicate |
| Young Christians are leaving the church - Here's why - J. Warner Wallace |
Fox News Opinion |
| Are people today more religious than in the past? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Theistic Evolution Is Not a Good Option |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A Deist in Christian Clothing? |
Evolution News |
| Denis Lamoureux on the God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy |
Evolution News |
| Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Pushing the “free-will loophole” back to 7.8 billion years ago |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinism — Yeah, It’s a Thing |
Uncommon Descent |
| Barry Arrington: How my five-year-old is like a materialist |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why Darwinism is Protected by the First Amendment |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rigorous Inquiry and Ruffled Feathers |
Evolution News |
| ID as a bridge between Francis Bacon and Thomas Aquinas |
Uncommon Descent |
| Karl “falsification” Popper was dogmatic, but was that such a bad thing? |
Uncommon Descent |
| When Science and Religion Were Connected |
JSTOR Daily |
| Does philosophy still need mathematics and vice versa? |
Aeon |
| Sam Harris vs. Jordan Peterson on whether an “objective” moral code is possible |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science has a problem, and we must talk about it |
BackReaction |
| Why we stick to false beliefs |
Science Daily |
| Hard Science Has a Firm Grip on Unreality |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| There really is a space alien religion |
Uncommon Descent |
| Even scientists jump to conclusions - and that's a problem |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Enough of treating scientists like gods! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Three Meanings of Evolution & Biblical Creation |
J.R. Miller - More than Cake |
| Who Owns Science, Anyway? |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Why do we think “social psychology” is science anyway? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Suppressing Science at Brown University |
Evolution News |
| Times a-changin’ New Scientist now hails mind over matter |
Uncommon Descent |
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| AND MORE |
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| Call for atheism to be included in religious education |
The Guardian |
| Are atheists less tolerant than others? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why atheists are not as rational as some like to think |
The Conversation |
| Is there an atheist value system, at odds with traditional ones? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Targeted Apologetics |
Answers in Genesis |
| Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution |
BBC News |
| Apes can be generous. Are they just like humans then? |
Mind Matters |
| BBC Plays Misinformation Teacher about Darwinism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A charismatic personality set back the acceptance of evolution 50 years before Darwin |
Science Daily |
| Using Non-Evolution to Preach Evolution |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| At the Guardian: The “widespread notion that academia is morally superior is ridiculous” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Discovery of Galileo's long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition |
Nature |
| Response to Swamidass: Sniffing at 700+ Citations of Mainstream Scientific Literature |
Evolution News |
| Scuzza Man on design law theory |
Uncommon Descent |
| Why we can’t really live forever via advanced technology |
Uncommon Descent |
| How Bitcoin Works: The social value of trust |
Mind Matters |
| To Improve Credibility, Science Must Get Out of Politics |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| If a conventional evolutionary psychology claim is true, masculinity is “in crisis”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Robert Marks: Slaughterbots - Is it ethical to develop a swarm of killer AI drones? |
Mind Matters |
| Eric Holloway: Slaughterbots: How far is too far? |
Mind Matters |
| Can machines be persons? |
Mind Matters |
| How do robots “care”? |
Mind Matters |
| Is the future of jobs over? Should people be paid to let machines do the work? |
Mind Matters |
| Sam Harris, atheists and charitable giving |
Uncommon Descent |
| Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole |
Quillette |
| Smartphone 10 Conversation 0 |
Mind Matters |
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