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So is racism the new cool?
Gravitational waves not spotted after all?
Sentient robots not possible
Mathematicians say: Crucially, this type of integration requires loss of information, says Maguire: “You have put in two bits, and you get one out. If the brain integrated information in this fashion, it would have to be continuously haemorrhaging information.” Maguire and his colleagues say the brain is unlikely to do this, because repeated retrieval of memories would eventually destroy them. Instead, they define integration in terms of how difficult information is to edit. More:
Do these people have a death wish?
“Recent copious and regional evolution” = current events
A roundup of reviews of book defending gene-based racism
Why is it now so cool to be a “creationist”?
Everybody you don’t like is a “creationist” these days
Excerpt from Nicholas Wade on race and genetics
Stone circles twice Stonehenge age found in Virginia
Here: Concentric stone circles near rocks weighing more than a ton – apparently aligned to mark solar events – are believed to be part of a Paleo-Indian site in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Clarke County that an expert has dated to about 10,000 B.C. The complex along Spout Run has 15 above-ground stone features. Though still under study, it could be one of the oldest man-made structures in North America still in existence and twice as old as England’s Stonehenge. More. Follow UD News at Twitter! See also: The Science Fictions series at your fingertips (human evolution)