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Alan Dershowitz: Don't diagnose Trump -- respond to him
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7 years ago
Alan Dershowitz: Don't diagnose Trump -- respond to him By Alan Dershowitz | Fox News (Opinion), January 10 2018 Dershowitz: Dangerous for liberals to diagnose Trump Harvard law professor speaks...
Why We Should Rethink How We Talk About “Alien” Species
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7 years ago
In a trend that echoes the U.S.-Mexico border debate, some say that calling non-native animals “foreigners” and “invaders” only worsens the problem Nilgai antelope, like the cattle fever...
Good Luck to all in the Winter Storm's Path!
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7 years ago
It's been unreasonably cold here in Louisville, just like the rest of the country, for over a week-- Now, I keep reading about this horrible superstorm blizzard hitting the north and the east...
Evidence Against Young Earth Creationism
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7 years ago
Source: RationalWiki article - Evidence against a recent creation Page intro: The evidence against a recent creation is overwhelming . There is perhaps no greater attack on science than...
Supermoons, Blood Moons, Full Moons: Everything You Need to Know About 2018’s Lunar Calendar
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Supermoons, Blood Moons, Full Moons: Everything You Need to Know About 2018’s Lunar Calendar By Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, On 12/29/17 It’s hard to remember to look up from...
E.P.A. Wanted Years to Study Lead Paint Rule. It Got 90 Days.
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7 years ago
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its nearly 17-year-old standard for dangerous levels of lead in paint and dust within one year, a rare...
The long wait for fusion power may be coming to an end
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7 years ago
From the article: One of the brightest hopes for controlled nuclear fusion, the giant ITER reactor at Cadarache in southeastern France, is now on track to achieve nuclear fusion operation in...
Antique and Classic Cars group now open for membership
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7 years ago
ATTENTION CAR BUFFS A new group has just been opened: Antique and Classic Cars To join the group, go to the group page, and apply for membership. It is not a private group, so your...
Christian “Prophet”: Trump Will Soon Release Cures for Cancer and Alzheimer’s
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7 years ago
Source Self-proclaimed Christian “prophet” Mark Taylor has a fantastic track record when it comes to his predictions. Earlier this year, for example, he predicted that Hillary Clinton would...
How bearded dragons switch their sex
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8 years ago
Extreme temperatures might mess with RNA from two genes When things get hot, embryonic bearded dragon lizards turn female — and now scientists might know why. New analyses, reported online...
The IIHS is Hoping For a Bright Future When it Comes to Headlights
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8 years ago
Even though headlights have evolved from uniform circles illuminating the roadway in largely the same way to diverse units that look and function very differently, their overall performance has...
Evolutionary Genetics - Copy number variation and the secret of life - with Aoife McLysaght
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8 years ago
From the description: Evolution is powered by variation: the differences in DNA sequences. One hugely important form of difference is copy number variation, where genes are duplicated or...
Vandals Shatter 115-Million-Year Old Dino Track in Australia
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8 years ago
Bunurong Marine National Park was established to protect the delicate coastal and ocean habitats that hug the shores of Victoria, Australia. In the 1990s, researchers found the area protects...
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Sound Science’
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8 years ago
Science is being turned against itself. For decades, its twin ideals of transparency and rigor have been weaponized by those who disagree with results produced by the scientific method. Under...
In the 1930s, This Natural History Curator Discovered a Living Fossil–Well, Sort of
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It was a pre-Christmas miracle: on this day in 1938, when an observant curator spotted something seemingly impossible in a waste pile of fish. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a museum curator in...
England Has Its Own Pod of Dolphins
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8 years ago
Bottlenose dolphins are one of the most wide-ranging species in the ocean, living in habitats from the tropics to the chillier waters off of North America and Europe. And while the creatures...
How Economic Incentives have Created our Dysfunctional US Medical Market
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8 years ago
What you’ll see is that the economic forces and incentives that motivate our health system often lead to medical practices that are not especially good for our health — or our wallets....
What Shrinking Fossil-Rich National Monuments Means for Science
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8 years ago
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced the dramatic rollback of protections for roughly two million acres of land in national monuments of southern Utah, stating that the creation...
Four ways natural history museums skew reality
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8 years ago
Natural history museums are magical places. They inspire awe and wonder in the natural world and help us understand our place within the animal kingdom. Behind the scenes, many of them are also...
Saturn’s rings are surprisingly young and may be from shredded moons
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Saturn’s iconic rings are a recent addition. Final data from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew between the planet and the rings this year before plunging into the gas giant’s atmosphere,...
The Great Red Spot Descends Deep Into Jupiter
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8 years ago
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is not just a skin-deep beauty mark. Instead, the iconic storm descends at least 200 miles beneath the clouds and possibly much deeper. That is one of the latest...
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