“An arena of fine-tuning we can all appreciate, not quantitatively but qualitatively, is how in most events of our lives, things go right, when there are so many more ways that they could go wrong.”
At Symmetry Magazine: Why aren’t neutrinos adding up?
“Physicists take on the mystery of the missing (and extra) neutrinos.”
At Sci Tech Daily: Nanoscale Rotors Constructed From DNA – Smallest Flow-Driven Motors in the World
“Scientists have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors in the world. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and biological motor proteins, they created a self-configuring flow-driven rotor from DNA that converts energy from an electrical or salt gradient into useful mechanical work.”
At Science News: A new James Webb telescope image reveals a galactic collision’s aftermath
“Bright, dusty spokes connect the inner and outer rings of the Cartwheel Galaxy in [a] new James Webb Space Telescope image, giving fresh insight into rare double-ringed galaxies.”
The Intelligent Design Audiopaper Project
I was thinking recently, about how many audiobooks are consumed by people these days. I would guess that the main reason behind this consumption is convenience. Many people just don’t have the time, or don’t create the time, to really sit down and get their head in a book. But I understand that for many, Read More…
At Evolution News: An Evolutionary Mathematician Flunks Biology
Arguments and counter-arguments serve a purpose in arriving at a truthful conclusion. But what if one side jumps ship when the waves of counter-argument are unassailable?
At Live Science: Solar storm from hole in the sun will hit Earth on Wednesday (Aug. 3)
Ben Turner writes: Thankfully, the storm is classified as weak. High-speed solar winds from a “hole” in the sun’s atmosphere are set to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Wednesday (Aug 3.), triggering a minor G-1 geomagnetic storm. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) made the prediction after observing Read More…
At Science Daily: Fiddler crab eye view inspires researchers to develop novel artificial vision
“The researchers develop an amphibious artificial vision system with a panoramic field-of-view based on the Fiddler crab’s eye structure.”
At Sci News: New Interactive Phylogenetic Map Shows Full Diversity of Life on Earth
“LifeGate 2022, created by Leipzig University researcher Martin Freiberg, is an attempt to arrange all known species (about 2.6 million) in an interactive zoomable user interface.”
At Phys.org: This Australian experiment is on the hunt for an elusive particle that could help unlock the mystery of dark matter
“Australian scientists are making strides towards solving one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: the nature of invisible “dark matter.””
At EurekAlert: Taking your time makes a difference – Brain development differs between Neanderthals and modern humans
Differences in Humans and Neanderthals: evolution or design?
At Mind Matters News: Pioneer environmentalist: Cyborgs will rule the planet
James Lovelock is very confident that the workings of evolution underpin his thesis but it is hard to see how. Lovelock is hard to classify. He has boundless faith in both Gaia and AI — in almost anything, it would seem, except humans.
Michael Egnor: Mathematics can prove the existence of God
Egnor: Because mathematics can show infinity, eternity, and omnipotence, it can only have proceeded from a mind with those characteristics. That’s God.
At Mind Matters News: Fossil scientists ask, Could a Neanderthal meditate?
How much can we rely on casts from fossil skulls when the relationship between the mind and the brain is unclear even in currently living human beings?
Eric Holloway: Artificial neural networks can show that the mind isn’t the brain
Holloway: : The human mind can do tasks that an artificial neural network (ANN) cannot. Because the brain works like an ANN, the mind cannot just be what the brain does.