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Peer review: Not publishing social science studies with null results harms public discourse
Big Bang lithium shortage a “hard nut to crack”?
Animal with muscles found from 560 mya (Ediacaran period)
Stone-tipped spears 500 kya indicate increase in human cognitive and social skills?
ENCODE adds 1600 data sets
Rainforest life accounts for “evolution” of short stature in pygmies—twice?
Literary figure Samuel Butler, it turns out, coined the term “Neo-Darwinism” in 1880
Dragonfly both perfect at first AND “the perfected result” of 300 mya of evolution?
Recent anti-design book we never heard about
FYI: Who invented the term neo-Darwinism?
Do any animals have a true language?, asks the Washington Post
Great free resources from May conference on scientism
Harvard epidemiologist William P. Hanage offers five skeptical questions about the microbiome
Nine most mind-blowing animal disguises
Following Cracked.com’s six stealthiest disguises in the animal kingdom, (here), see their nine most mind-blowing ones. Here are National Geographic’s most amazing ones. Hat tip: Daniel Quinones