Tag: pressed
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Prehistoric asteroid wiped out nearly all mammals as well as dinosaurs, research suggests
I’ve always been fascinated by dinosaurs, ever since I was a young boy. While they take centre stage in the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous, 65 million years ago, recent research by scientists from the University of Bath reveals that the impact of the asteroid that struck near the Yucatan peninsula was…
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Building blocks of life’s first self-replicator recreated in lab | New Scientist
New Scientist has an article announcing that a team of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich has found a plausible way to generate the two purine nucleosides, adenosine and guanosine – A and G in the genetic code. This is a big step to explaining how RNA may have formed spontaneously on the primordial Earth.…
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Why creationists are out of time with history and science
An interesting piece in The Guardian by Dr. David Hone, about why creationists are out of time with history and science. It explores one example of the dishonesty that creationists are forced to employ in order to make creation “fit” with their view of reality: a world created by God. Creationists fail to appreciate the…
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“The Faith of Christopher Hitchens” …In Which I Read Snake Oil
An excellent article by Dan Wall, over on northierthanthou, about Christian apologists making up rumours about Christopher Hitchens maybe having a deathbed conversion. We’ve been hearing about this since Charles Darwin supposedly had one. Anyway, over to Dan. I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t the fate of prominent atheists to end up with Christian…
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Mystery bright spots could be first glimpse of another universe | New Scientist
The multiverse theory has as far as I know, always been just a theory, something that was a mathematical possibility. Now though, it seems as though there may be actual evidence of another universe out there, lying beyond ours.
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Stand Up for Strong Security
Certain factions within the US Congress and the FBI are insisting on the government requiring US technology companies to grant the government special access to devices and cryptographic measures. In essence, they are asking for US technology to be insecure by design. Adding a backdoor for US government agencies is possible but there are serious…