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Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, Gizmodo, humans, illness, imagination, medication, medicine, mice, neurons, neuroscience, pain, researchers, University of North Carolina}

Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

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August 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ears, fish, hearing, humans, Nature (journal), neurons, pressure, sounds}

Study Unravels the Mystery of Fish Hearing

_{Eric Cassell
July 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The fish directional hearing algorithm appears to be another example of a complex programmed behavior in animals. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, bleeding, body, consciousness, Cornell University, foresight, intelligent design, living cell, matter, mind, Minding the Brain, molecules, naturalism, nervous system, neurons, panpsychism, sleep, wakefulness}

Consciousness — At Odds with the Flesh

_{Eric Hedin
July 16, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The inescapable conclusion from studying the need for sleep is that the body cannot survive without a regular reprieve from effects of this system on the body. Read More ›

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Date
July 4, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, Carly Cassella, emotions, feelings, human brain, neurons, neuroscience, Northwestern University, phase transition, ScienceAlert, thoughts, universe, water}

Research: Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

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July 4, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The good news, according to recent research, is that unsteadiness is the normal state of the human brain. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, beetles, bioengineering, birds, butterflies, Caltech, dragonflies, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, limbs, Mona Lisa, Monarch butterflies, Nature (journal), neurons, smartphones, wasps, wings}

Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

_{David Coppedge
May 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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, asteroid, baboons, chimpanzees, crocodiles, dinosaurs, intelligence, neurons, paleontologists, Tyrannosaurus rex}

The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then… Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bacteria, blood vessels, body heat, body temperature, brain, catalysis, enzymes, evolution, heat, infection, inflammation, intelligent design, muscles, neurons, skin, temperature, thermostats, white blood cells}

In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, apoptosis, Charles Darwin, circulation, Current Biology, digestion, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, feedback control, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, natural selection, neurons, Nobel Prize, odors, PLOS Biology, timing}

Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

_{David Coppedge
February 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from a cursory glance. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Trinity College Dublin}

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, central nervous system, digestive system, microbes, neurons, neuroscientists, pathogens, toxins, United States, University of British Columbia, Wired, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons. Read More ›