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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 6, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain hemispheres, consciousness, eliminative materialism, Iain McGilchrist, Justin Brierley, neuroscience, panpsychism, psychiatry, qualia, Scientific American, The Matter with Things, Unbelievable}

Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 6, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, alveoli, arteries, baby, birth, blood, circulatory system, David Galloway, ductus arteriosus, fetus, heart, intelligent design, lungs, physiology, placenta, regulatory control, UK Centre for Intelligent Design, umbilical cord, uterus, valves, ventricle}

The Genius of the Fetal Circulatory System

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 3, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Last week, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. It is difficult to imagine a more profound testimony to design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Canada, consciousness, dementia, euthanasia, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, paradoxical lucidity, Stony Brook University}

Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

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July 31, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, blastocyst, cells, CRISPR, embryology, embryonic stem cells, embryos, gametes, genetic engineering, human embryos, human experimentation, implantation, morality, petri dish, pluripotent stem cells, public policy, Science News, synthetic embryos, UCLA}

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

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July 25, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 21, 2023

Categories
Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, autopsy, brain imaging, cerebral cortex, Live Science, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, nose, smell, temporal lobe, The Human Soul, women, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 21, 2023

Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bats, brains, classrooms, communication, mice, movement, New York University, Scientific American, shape, sound, stem, synchrony, wavelength}

When You Sync with Someone, Your Brains Wave Together

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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In research, neuroscientists have found that co-operation results in brain wave synchrony. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Center for Bioethics and Culture, doctors, eugenics, feelings, females, gestation, human experimentation, ideology, Jennifer Lahl, males, medicine, pregnancy, testosterone, transgenderism, transphobia, women}

Sacrificing Pre-Natal Wellness for Gender Ideology

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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We're told that applying a precautionary principle to protecting gestating babies is transphobic and akin to eugenics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2023

Categories
Genetics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, behavior, children, choices, Cyril Burt, disease, doppelgänger, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, statistical methods, twins, UC Berkeley}

Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2023

Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, "poor design", Darwinian evolution, Howard Glicksman, Humanize, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, medicine, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body}

Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

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July 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Laufmann and Glicksman point to essential systems within systems within systems — irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, engineers, heritability, Howard Glicksman, human body, Humanize, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, random mutation, Steve Laufmann, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body}

The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

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July 5, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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“The systems that are required to make the human body work,” says Steve Laufmann, “are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build.” Read More ›