How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA
Click Here to Read: How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA: Epigenetics study finds that children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life by Freda Kreier on the Nature website on November 21, 2022. Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931 […]
Read more...An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science
Click Here to Read: An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science: What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja by Luana Maroja on the Common Sense website on November 7, 2022. Human Heart and Circulatory System Image: Bryan […]
Read more...Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism
Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022. Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the […]
Read more...The race against radon
Click Here to Read: The race against radon: Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas By Chris Baraniuk on the Knowable Magazine website on May 11, 2022…
Read more...Organs of the State
Click Here to Read: Organs of the State: The People’s Republic of China is guilty of large-scale, Nazi-like medical experimentation on political prisonersby Martin Elliot on the Tablet Website on April 27, 2022. Uyghurman sunday market Kashgar Image: …
Read more...Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature
Click Here to Read: Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature: Latest run is expected to scrutinise findings from last year that may turn into another blockbuster discovery by Hannah Devlin on the Guardian website on April 2…
Read more...The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe
Click Here to Read: The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe: During the Planck era, the universe was so small that our laws of physics break down. To dive deeper back in time, we’ll need new scientific language By Sten Odenwald on the Astronomy.com website on April 21, 2022 The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) […]
Read more...Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster
Click Here to Read: Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster: All civilizations collapse. The challenge is how to slow it down enough to prolong our happiness bu Ligo Bardi on the Tablet website on April 24, 2022.Temple of the Great Jaguar, Tikal Guatemala….
Read more...The most complex thing in the universe
Click Here to Read: The most complex thing in the universe: Biocosmology: the birth of a new science? by Marina Cortês on the iai news website on April 21, 2022.Starburst.Image: NASA. Public Domain via Wikimida Commons
AI’s first philosopher
Click Here to Read: AI’s first philosopher: Alan Turing was a pioneer of machine learning, whose work continues to shape the crucial question: can machines think? by Sebastian Sunday Grève on the Aeon website,
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