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20Aug 2025 by Post

A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

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"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Source

22Feb 2025 by Post

Mammoth Bone Structure of 24,000 Years Ago Illuminates Stone Age

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Science journalist Tibi Puiu notes, “It’s one of the most surreal ancient structures ever built — and it’s just one of over 70 found thus far.” Source

08Jul 2024 by Post

Evolutionary Model Can’t Account for Singing

acoustics, airflow, Evolution, frequencies, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, just-so stories, Luciano Pavarotti, lungs, music, neuroscience, pharynx, singing, Smithsonian Magazine, social bonding, song, Steve Laufmann, tones, Your Designed Body

Our fascination with singing and how enamored we can become with hearing quality vocalists reveals something significant about our identity as humans. Source

03Oct 2023 by Post

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

abstractions, American Kennel Club, animals, bird song, birds, cats, cuttlefish, David M. Peña-Guzmán, dolphins, dreaming, horses, human exceptionalism, information, jumping spiders, learning, Life Sciences, memory, Neuroscience & Mind, rapid eye movement, sleep, Smithsonian Magazine, spiders, symbols, Teresa Iglesias, thought, whales

Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Source

21Dec 2022 by Post

Synchronized Swimming in Siphonophores: A Design Worth Imitating

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It must be good if engineers want to copy it. Siphonophores are colonial animals that have mastered the sport of synchronized swimming. Source

03Mar 2022 by Post

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

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These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Source

11Feb 2022 by Post

Can Insects Be Conscious? Let’s Look at Bees First

Andrew Barron, Australia, biology, central complex, Colin Klein, consciousness, Evolution, honeybees, human consciousness, insects, Intelligent Design, Macquarie University, midbrain, Neuroscience & Mind, phenomenal consciousness, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Magazine

It is important to qualify what “consciousness” means when we are talking about bees. Source

30Apr 2020 by Post

A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution

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The 2010s was a bad decade for the study of human evolution. Smithsonian Magazine recently published an article titled “These are the Decade’s Biggest Discoveries in Human Evolution.” It opens by saying: Human evolution is one of the most vibrant areas of scientific investigation. In the past decade we’ve seen many discoveries that add to our understanding of our origins. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Smithsonian’s “David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins,” here are some of the biggest discoveries in human evolution from the last 10 years. What are the big discoveries of the decade? Did they reveal new and compelling evidence that humans evolved from lower primates? Some of these big discoveries actually turn out to be instances where the evidence for human evolution weakened, and the rest…

01Apr 2020 by Post

Another Cosmos Episode, Another Sermon from Pastor Tyson

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Several themes weave their way through the current season of Cosmos, “Possible Worlds.” The careful viewer will detect at least one in each episode. They include the ideas that a modern intellectual awakening took place when science (defined as applied naturalistic philosophy) triumphed over religion and superstition; that human exceptionalism is an ancient prejudice we must abandon; and that you can find meaning in a universe without a god. Episode 7, which aired last night on Fox and National Geographic, presents the viewer with a heavy dose of the second idea. The episode begins with Neil deGrasse Tyson walking on the perimeter of the recently completed 500-meter single dish radio telescope, FAST, in China. The episode is about the first contact with another intelligence, which many hope will be made with…

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