While humans have three color cones in the retina sensitive to red, green and blue light, birds have a fourth color cone that can detect ultraviolet light. A research team trained wild hummingbirds to perform a series of experiments that revealed that the tiny birds also see combination colors like ultraviolet+green and ultraviolet+red.
Month: June 2020
Here’s why so many physicists are wrong about free will
A crude understanding of physics sees determinism at work in the Universe. Luckily, molecular uncertainty ensures this isn’t so
Source: Here’s why so many physicists are wrong about free will | Aeon Essays
Genes May Leave Some People More Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19
Why do some people infected with the coronavirus suffer only mild symptoms, while others become deathly ill?Geneticists have been scouring our DNA for clues. Now, a study by European scientists is the first to document a strong statistical link between genetic variations and Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
Source: Genes May Leave Some People More Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19 | Portside
Endangered species: One species’ extinction can wipe out many more
Humans are causing a mass extinction. And humans can stop it.
Source: Endangered species: One species’ extinction can wipe out many more – Vox
Whose Lives Matter? Darwinism as Soil for Scientific Racism
Here is one more reason among many to take a hard, honest look at the growing scientific evidence against Darwinian theory.
Source: Whose Lives Matter? Darwinism as Soil for Scientific Racism | Evolution News
‘Quietly Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,’ Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic Ocean to Commercial Fishing
“Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats
Two New Species from New Mexico Help Fill Gap in Evolution of Horned Dinosaurs
Two new transitional species of plant-eating horned dinosaurs have been unearthed in New Mexico, the United States.
Not Even Wrong
The public understanding of fundamental physics research and the credibility of the subject have suffered a huge amount of damage over the past few decades, due to the overwhelming amount of misleading, self-serving BS about parallel universes and failed speculative ideas put out by physicists, university PR departments and the journalists who mistakenly take them seriously. I hope this latest is the beginning of a new trend of people in all these categories starting to fight hype, not spread it.
Source: Not Even Wrong
The “magnitude of catastrophe” facing America
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 108,000 people in the United States, with the total number of cases now approaching 2 million. Donald Trump and his administration have responded with malevolent indifference. These deaths are but another entry in a social Darwinist ledger where the “useless eaters” are being left to die for “capitalism” — and in service to Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.
Evolution: why it seems to have a direction and what to expect next
Evolution seems to lead to increasing complexity of species. But perhaps a dominant, intelligent species like humans will always end up destroying itself.
Source: Evolution: why it seems to have a direction and what to expect next
