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Just found this in the internet version of science tabloids which highlights an important new paper originally published last October in the prestigious Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Science {PNAS). If anti-science religious fundamentalists...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 12:10 AM PDT
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I've followed the general outlines of artificial abiogenesis experiments for decades now, but I did not see this coming. (And my apologies to any actual biologists who knew about this line of reseach ages ago and find this old news.) First some...
by JMcDonald
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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An essay developing these ideas systematically and in greater depth is here: “Realities That Emerge Through The Evolution Of The Experiential Realm.” The larger “integrated vision” of the Human Story — which I introduced here some months ago under the...
by AndySchmookler
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 08:04 AM PDT
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Three levels to an answer: complications arising from our being mammals; complications arising from our being the cultural animal, i.e. human; complications arising from our taking “the Fateful Step” into civilization. Check out “The Sacred Space of...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 07:59 AM PDT
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This year, there’s a fair chance that the USA will fall into the oubliette of “great” democracies that eventually failed. We might follow the ancient Greek city-states, ancient Rome, and the once-great British Empire. If that happens, Hollywood will...
by dratler
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 07:53 AM PST
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This BETTER HUMAN STORY series was introduced here in October with a piece titled -- with chutzpah but with honesty as well -- as “A ‘Big Picture’ View that Might Help Human Civilization (and Our Democracy) Survive.” It promised an integrated...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 09:01 AM PST
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Thanks to the technology of time travel,* a public debate was arranged between 19th century scientist Charles Darwin and 21st century politician Mike Johnson. Here is a full transcript: CHARLES DARWIN: “So, you claim that my theory of evolution causes...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 07:11 PM PDT
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This series was introduced three weeks ago with a piece titled, “Introduction to a “Big Picture” View that Might Help Human Civilization (and Our Democracy) Survive.” (Admittedly an extravagant claim, but one I’ve hoped people will check out before...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Introduction: This essay is the first in a series titled A BETTER HUMAN STORY. “First,” that is, except for an Introductory essay published here a week ago: “Introduction to a ‘Big Picture’ View that Might Help Human Civilization (and American...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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We recently returned from ten days on Kaua’i, and while we were primarily there for the diving, we also did some sightseeing, which included birding. Birds in Hawaii are a mix of pan-subtropicals, migrants, endemics, and introduced species. We didn’t...
by OceanDiver
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on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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I was feeling nostalgic and looked up an old blog of mine...from 2008. This was not the beginning of the blog movement, rather the blog thing had been in full swing for a number of years (neither know nor care about how many years). I had reread some...
by mlwalton13
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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Welcome to what is the 1224th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Kristina Karamo, who was a 2022 candidate for Michigan Secretary of State not so much on her credentials as a community...
by republicinsanity
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 03:37 PM PDT
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While there are people who do not believe in evolution, meaning the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form, the scientific evidence makes it clear that most biological organisms once existed in a much simpler...
by Charles Ray
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on Tue Jul 18, 2023 at 06:58 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment ...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Jul 16, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Over the past century, the term� blasphemy �has developed an old-fashioned, out-of-date feeling and governmental laws against blasphemy have been disappearing. The battles against blasphemy—...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Jul 09, 2023 at 07:38 AM PDT
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More than 500 million years ago, the three living groups of chordates — the ones with backbonish structures — went our separate ways. These are the cephalochordates (lancelets), the tunicates (sea squirts, salps, and some others), and the vertebrates....
by skralyx
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 09:11 PM PDT
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I received an automated spam call early this morning as I was trying to wrap my brain around a cup of coffee and a muffin. Normally, I just hang up, or don’t even answer such calls, and I don’t actually receive that many of them, so they are not that...
by CinDan
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on Tue Jun 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Before you click out, know this: I’m not religious. Trained first as an experimental scientist, I spent most of my working life as a lawyer and law professor. I don’t believe in the supernatural, far less in a kindly old man (or lady) sitting up there...
by dratler
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on Mon May 29, 2023 at 08:56 PM PDT
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For most of the time that humans have existed as a species, we lived in small hunter-gatherer groups. The best available evidence, from modern-day hunter-gatherers such as those in New Guinea, from anthropological and archeological evidence, is that we...
by Bruce K
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on Fri May 12, 2023 at 04:57 PM PDT
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Personal Experience: What it is and why we have it (a treatise on consciousness) By Thomas Crown A non-fiction book that solves some of the hard problems of consciousness 150 pages Preface I am not qualified to write this book… on paper. I am not a...
by 40ford
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on Tue May 09, 2023 at 03:50 PM PDT
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