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July 2019

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post
Date
July 5, 2019
Categories
Climate change

What Do Climate Scientists Really Know?

PaV
July 5, 2019
Climate change
4

Scientistsdiscover the biggest seaweed bloom in the world: From Phys.Org:(https://phys.org/news/2019-07-scientists-biggest-seaweed-bloom-world.html) [N.B. I find the newest version of WordPress almost impossible to work with. There is no correlation between the commands they tell you to use and what actually happens. This might be the last post I post here. There’s no way I can set up a link. Impossible. ] Scientists led by the USF College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), as reported in Science. They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on numerical simulations. It can grow so large Read More ›

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 4, 2019
Categories
Darwinism
Ecology
Intelligent Design
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The incorrect insect egg model relied too much on model organisms

News
July 4, 2019
Darwinism, Ecology, Intelligent Design
3
Krauze: the organisms we have chosen to represent invertebrates, like C. elegans and D. melanogaster, are simpler than the average invertebrate. And this means that we're likely underestimating the complexity of the last common ancestor of animals (Metazoa). ... Attempts to correct for this bias has found that the last common Metazoan ancestor was surprisingly complex, seemingly 'overdesigned' for its simple morphology. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 3, 2019
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
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Do we really need a “plan” for a response to aliens?

News
July 3, 2019
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
2
If a tenth of the effort were put into cleaning up the corruption around peer review, as for example in: The astonishing rise of junk science, that would be a better use of time than figuring out what to say to the Klingons or Jabba the Hutt when they or theirs finally show up. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 2, 2019
Categories
Culture
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Religion
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University of Maryland: Oumuamua was not an alien spacecraft

News
July 2, 2019
Culture, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion
3
“Stick with analogs we know, you advise”? Yes, good idea. It used to be the usual approach among scientists. So why was it suddenly suspended? We are still wondering. Or maybe we know but no one wants to discuss it. See Tales of an invented god . Read More ›