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You're Seeing More Redheads Than Ever And Evolution Is Why
23+ hour, 12+ min ago (388+ words) Just a few years ago, there were concerns that minorities like blondes and redheads were going extinct. The future belonged to Miss Clairol because they're recessive genes and with just five generations of bad biological rolls, you could have less…...
Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (446+ words) On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became the first to have his pitch speed measured during a game. Rockwell International experts clocked the ball velocity at 100. 8 miles per hour. That was the fastest…...
Did The Humanities Ruin The Humanities And Take All Academia Down With Them?
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (632+ words) At what point is enforced identification with what is obviously a collapsing system called out by people on the inside of once-powerful industries? Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made…...
Have A Master In Science, Want A Post-Doc Position Directly?
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (335+ words) Do you have a master in Science, and want to start a Post-Doc position directly? You can have it, in Padova (Italy), to work with me on the PHINDER project, an EIC-funded Pathfinder grantee. I am offering a two-year position…...
Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (286+ words) Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination. (1)read more Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination. (1)Bees are not dying, there are more than at any point in recorded history,…...
UC San Diego Gives Government Bans Credit For Ending The Vaping Fad
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (695+ words) During the Obama administration, the credibility of the US Centers for Disease Control went into serious decline. Though it only became evident to most how incompetent career government bureaucrats were when COVID-19 hit - they denied it was a pandemic and…...
UC Davis Gives Government Bans Credit For Ending The Vaping Fad
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (658+ words) Science 2. 0...
Young People Have Become Jaded To Emotional Appeals On Screens - And That Is Good
1+ week, 3+ day ago (591+ words) Running a pro-science nonprofit is a poor business model....
The Feel Good Fallacy Of Sugary Drink Taxes On Reducing Obesity
1+ week, 4+ day ago (680+ words) Social authoritarians like to make people more reliant on government and then control what people do with the government assistance they are now reliant upon. It keeps those in control in positions of power. The most recent example is with…...
EWG Activists Cheer California Efforts To Ban More Science
1+ week, 4+ day ago (391+ words) California government has a new proposal that could ban thousands of chemicals, even if they are natural. California is, of course, famously anti-science. The reason lawyers who wanted to sue over weedkillers filed in San Francisco is because it is…...