February 2012
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Richard Dawkins: "I can't be sure God does not... →
“During a wide-ranging discussion the the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams also said that he believed that human beings had evolved from non-human ancestors but were nevertheless “in the image of God”. He also said that the explanation for the creation of the world in the Book of Genesis could not be taken literally.”
Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost →
infoneer-pulse:
A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom.
Biologists have resurrected a 30,000-year-old plant, cultivating it from fruit tissue recovered from frozen sediment in Siberia. The plant is by far the oldest to be brought back from the dead: the previous record holder was a sacred lotus, dating back about 1200 years.
» via New Scientist
“The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely...”
– Carlo Rovelli, physicist (via thanh-tan)
Jurassic cricket's song recreated →
infoneer-pulse:
Night-time in the Jurassic forest was punctuated by the unmistakable sound of chirping bush crickets.
This is according to scientists who have reconstructed the song of a cricket that chirped 165 million years ago.
A remarkably complete fossil of the prehistoric insect enabled the team to see the structures in its wings that rubbed together to make the sound.
» via BBC
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