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Photo: Rice seedling, roots, by Myrmux, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Roots Become Jackhammers

How do flimsy, tiny roots get through hard soil? A root tip hitting hardpan switches on a flurry of signals that get to work on anchorage and penetration. Read More ›
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Photo: Snæfellsjökull, by Axel Kristinsson from Reykjavík, Iceland, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›
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Photo: Eokinorhynchus rarus, SEM, Dinghua Yang in Zhang et al. 2015, fair use (Source: http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/ns/RelatedNews/201511/t20151130_156623.html).

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
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Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›
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Photo: Holotype of Mesobalanoglossus buergeri, by G. Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
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The War on 2 + 2 = 4

The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›
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Photo: Mesomyzon mengae, Tiouraren via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED.

Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Patrick Gruban, cropped and downsampled by Pine, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Granting Rights to Nature Is Being Negotiated at the United Nations

“Nature rights” and “ecocide” are part of the effort among radicals to destroy Western civilization, the central principle of which is human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Photo: A jungle in Panama, by Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mainstream Media Discover “Nature Rights”

Concomitantly, China would never be so stupid as to grant rights to nature. They don’t even grant them to humans. Read More ›
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This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›

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