Reality Checks: Christian Climate Scientist, Synthetic Chromosomes, and the Turing Test

• This climate scientist is trying to convince her fellow Christians that climate change is real. (via NPR)
• A new bird has been discovered in Indonesia. (via Phys.org)
• Undergraduate students engineered a yeast chromosome, the first time such a thing has been done. (via Scientific American)
• A Russian chatterbot passed the Turing Test for the first time. (via io9)

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