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Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Read More ›
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Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve

Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole. Read More ›
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Electronic Technology Shows Foresight in Nature

The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer: Totalitarian Dystopias and the God Hypothesis

The insight is timely, given the two-year anniversary of lockdowns that we’ve recently observed. Read More ›
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The Paradigm Project — Intelligent Design in a New Light

Douglas Axe urges scientists to admit there are things they don’t understand about life's origins, much as there are things in Scripture we can’t grasp. Read More ›
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Cherry blossoms on the campus of the University of Washington, Seattle. Authorities were telling would-be visitors to stay away; by D. Guillaime / CC BY-SA.

#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” Read More ›
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Science Uprising — In the Year of the Mask

The series is aimed at reaching Generation Z. And wow, not least in this year of isolation, worry, and conflict, do young people need it! Read More ›
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Photo: Cherry blossoms on the campus of the University of Washington, Seattle. Authorities are telling would-be visitors to stay away; by D. Guillaime / CC BY-SA

Living Amid a Pandemic: Wisdom from C.S. Lewis

Remember the admonition of C.S. Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.” Read More ›
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Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›
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Bruni “Gets It” on Disability Bias — Except for Assisted Suicide

When New York Times columnist Frank Bruni isn’t driving me nuts, it’s usually because he’s on vacation from his (very well written) column. Read More ›

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