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22Mar 2023 by Post

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

bioethics, Canada, cerebral palsy, Christiane Belzile, crime, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Edmonton Journal, euthanasia, euthanasia consciousness, Francois Belzile, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, Medicine, murder, Robert Latimer, science

Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Source

21Mar 2023 by Post

Gilson: How a Teacher Wrecked Biology for Me, and How I Got Past It

biology, Culture, Education, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, high school, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Podcast, researchers, scientists, teachers, The Stream, Tom Gilson

His biology teacher could take an entire class period to tell Charles Darwin’s life story, and then repeat the same class, virtually verbatim. Source

20Mar 2023 by Post

The Role of Learning in the Honey Bee Waggle Dance

algorithms, Animal Algorithms, biology, brain, Carol Gould, distance, Evolution, honey bees, human language, information, insects, Intelligent Design, James Gould, programmed behavior, science, Science (journal), travel distance, waggle dance

Learning is largely a programmed behavior, governed by a type of algorithm, particularly for animals with limited cognitive ability. Source

18Mar 2023 by Post

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charleston, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Evolution, history, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Lake Superior, primary sources, Races of Man, Racism, Royal Agricultural College, S. P. Woodward, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States

Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source

17Mar 2023 by Post

Depths of Design: Talking Boxes

Alexa, Amazon, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Audrey, China, Cortana, Culture & Ethics, Google, Her, humor, Internet, Joaquin Phoenix, laryngitis, Mac OS, Neuroscience & Mind, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Siri, speech, Speech Synthesis Markup Language, War Games

Our talking boxes take our requests, run their routines, and send out results but understand nothing, whether or not they’re made in China. Source

16Mar 2023 by Post

Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, clockmaker God, Cosmic Habitable Age, cosmos, deism, deists, designer, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Joyce, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Dedalus, The Privileged Planet, theism

Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Source

15Mar 2023 by Post

More Jobs for “Junk” DNA

chromatin, differentiation, embryogenesis, embryos, Evolution, genetics, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, MERVL, mice, mouse endogenous retrovirus L, Nature Genetics, ontogeny, retrotransposons, The Myth of Junk DNA, totipotent cells, transcription, transcriptome

It turns out the mouse endogenous retrovirus L (MERVL) is essential for embryogenesis, according to a recently published article. Source

14Mar 2023 by Post

Summers Seminars: A MUST if You’re Considering a Science Career; Applications Due April 1

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One student said he was shocked to find that the academic quality was greater than that of many of his college courses and yet it cost him nothing. Source

13Mar 2023 by Post