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What If (Almost) Every Gene Affects (Almost) Everything?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2020-01-27, 09:10 PM

What If (Almost) Every Gene Affects (Almost) Everything?

Ed Yong


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In 1999, a group of scientists scoured the genomes of around 150 pairs of siblings in an attemp

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Dean Radin's project on the genetics of psychic ability


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    No Replies

Chris, 2020-01-27, 10:04 AM

Dean Radin, Garret Yount and Garry Nolan have been working on a research project entitled "Genetics of psychic ability," funded by the Bial Foundation. Details of a poster on the work presented at a Bial symposium in 2018 can be found on page 265 of this file:

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On Logos


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2020-01-25, 04:57 AM

On Logos

Raymond Tallis


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[color=#000000][size=small][font="sans-serif"]The extraordinary character of the sense-making animal may be highlighted by contrasting a wild animal looking for the origin of a threatening signal with a t

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The Universe Is Made Of Mathematics


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    3 Replies

Sci, 2020-01-25, 01:15 AM

The Universe Is Made Of Mathematics

Sam Woolfe


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[color=#000000][size=small][font="sans-serif"]Some may view Tegmark’s mathematical monism as an extreme and nonsensical position, due to the fact that we

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Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets


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Sci, 2020-01-25, 01:08 AM

Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets

Sean Raymond


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Hot eyeball and icy eyeball planets are extreme cases, but any planet that

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Occult Philosophy & Magic: Well of Galables Archive


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2020-01-24, 12:02 AM

The Well of Galabes

JM Greer

"All my posts from my earlier blog on occult philosophy and magic, The Well of Galabes, are archived here:"

Explaining the World (June 2014)
[url

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The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth


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Sci, 2020-01-23, 10:37 PM

The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth

Catherine Nichols


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Novelists and filmmakers who base their work on folklore also seem to focus on commonalities. George Lucas very explicitly based [i]Star Wars[

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Secrets of Math From the Bee Whisperer


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2020-01-22, 07:59 PM

Secrets of Math From the Bee Whisperer

Anne Moffat


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“You can see their decision-making process in their movements and flight patterns,” Howard said. While deciding which of two a

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Diane Hennacy Powell


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    4 Replies

Chris, 2020-01-22, 07:56 AM

The Psi Encyclopedia has a new article on Diane Hennacy Powell and her interest in the possibility of telepathic communication in autistic children:
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...acy-powell

The work she presented to the Parapsychological Association in 2014 was discussed

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What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?


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Sci, 2020-01-21, 11:33 PM

What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?

Thomas White


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Lipstadt further argues that Arendt failed to explain why Eichmann and his assoc

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