biology
Computers' dominance in Go was inevitable
Which activities will preserve the "advantage humans"? This topic has hijacked a a thread on quantum gravity so let me dedicate a special …
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Intelligent design and eternal inflation: it would be very foolish...
One of the most provoking recent thoughts of Leonard Susskind about the philosophy of science can be summarized by a quote that appeared in a January…
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biology
Australopithecus overshadowed by Ardipithecus
If you're younger than 45, chances are that as a schoolkid, you were taught that Australopithecus afarensis was the oldest known human ancestor.…
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biology
Brain-to-brain communication
Science Alert and many others bring us the gospel about the research reported in PLOS in which thoughts were sent directly from one brain to anoth…
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biology
Miller’s grizzled langur goes unextinct
The disappearance of species and biodiversity fears belong among the classic themes of the environmentalist movement – it has been talked about since…
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Food scanner scams: non-physicists overestimate the "diversity of food"
They also underestimate the importance of expertise, experience Hours ago, Thunderf00t posted a wonderful new 50-minute-long video: ThunderF00t choos…
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Math is the language of the true culture of modern times
...and math skills are unavoidable side effects of skills that turned some humans into heroes of natural selection... Copenhagen: I haven't been…
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biology
Neanderthal genes partly decoded
The bone was found in Croatia. About one million out of 3.3 billion DNA base pairs has been mapped out by Edward Rubin et al. in Berkeley. While we s…
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biology
Megafauna not killed by climate change
One of the claims of the proponents of the catastrophic climate change theory is that the climate change is a killer. More concretely, the extinction…
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biology
Monkey boys head straight for the wheeled toys
This is not the first time a similar experiment was arranged; see, for example, Larry Cahill's article in Scientific American. But because the m…
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biology
The 234-bit gene that turns an ape into a man
You must have wondered why some of us are human while others are just apes. As I learned from an article that was sent to me by Peter F., all the dif…
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biology
Most species originate in the tropics
Yesterday was the first really good day of 2013 to swim in a pond – two months later than in 2012 – and today is the first supertropical day of the …
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