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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
Origin of life: Ancient mud volcanoes promising early habitat?
One thing about these OOL news stories is that you find out what’s wrong with the earlier theories marketed to the public in documentaries a couple of years ago.
Remember NASA’s arsenic origin of life study?
“The complete lack of growth of the arsenate cultures in the screw-capped glass tubes contradicts my previous results. “
Lost manuscripts, recovered after exhaustive efforts, establish Archimedes as the founder of combinatorics
In “Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest” Baltimore Sun, October 18, 2011), Mary Carole McCauley reports on the massive reconstruction job that has made available to us, after two millennia, the lost writings of the great, ancient Greek mathematician, Archimedes. It’s unfortunate that many know him only as the ancient Greek cartoon Read More…
Sophisticated tool production system discovered, from 200,000-400,000 years ago
“Most of the blades of were made to have one sharp cutting edge and one naturally dull edge so it could be easily gripped in a human hand.”
Does the essential nature of time remain the universe’s greatest mystery?
We’d thought the essential mystery was the exact relations between the four fundamental forces, but now that writer Stuart Clark mentions it, ….
Almost infinite bacterial conversations affect climate change?
“I think it’s amazing that there are a near-infinite number of these conversations going on in the ocean right now, and they are affecting Earth’s carbon cycle.”
Most human beings think that we are in control of our behaviour at critical points, and there is such a thing as justice. Why are they supposedly all wrong?
So Shermer’s books don’t sell well because the masses are stupid? If they do not, maybe people considered his theories and disagreed.
Researchers create simple genetic circuit that produces striped pattern in bacteria
The result of bacterial colony traffic control is target-like concentric rings.
When science becomes a frontal assault on reason and evidence: Multiple personality syndrome
News staff here have known about all that and more for decades, while writing for the Christian press. But it wasn’t popular to say so directly two decades ago.
If you think science can replace philosophy, read this
Anyone who even imagines such a thing should read frightful books like Sam Harris’ Moral Landscape and failed books like Roy Baumeister’s Willpower.
Peer reviewer advice addresses cattiness and duplicity
If a rival is going to accuse you of having an affair with his cat, the most important thing you want is for him to publish his accusation on the worldwide Web under his own name.
Atheist organization speaker: “religious and disabled groups should not be able to influence government policy”
Apparently, he’s part of the Centre for Inquiry and has written anti-ID articles and book chapters
Can neuroscience really erase memories? Sort of, but …
“In very recent research, Israeli scientists showed that they can erase memories linked to drug addiction”