The Guru Obsession: Why No One Is Qualified To Be Anyone’s Guru
We all have people that we look up to in this world.And while that may be helpful in some ways, it could also be troubling if you allow them to become your fully trusted guru.
Clara Steitz
DISCUSS: UK General Election Before Christmas?
A rapid volte-face from the Labour Party means the UK may be headed for a Christmas time General Election.
For those of you following, this is the second proposed GE in a just a few weeks. Labour voted down the other, claiming that they would only vote for an early
Iran: Sanctions Threatening Health
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Iran: Sanctions Threatening Health
The Trump administration’s broad sanctions on Iran have drastically constrained the ability of the country to finance humanitarian imports.
The Trump administration’s broad sanctions on Iran have drastically constrained the ability of the country to finance humanitarian imports. (Washington, DC)
12 Other Words for Dumb to Use in an Intelligent Conversation
With the world so divided at the moment, it seems everyone we talk to has a completely different opinion.I think it’s all very well to have an intelligent conversation.You broaden your outlook.
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
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In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state:
As the science against glyphosate safety mounts
Defending Assange and Basic Freedoms: Think Bigger – Much Bigger
Around the globe, well-informed and dedicated souls have for years been explicating the persecution of Julian Assange and its much broader implications.
Malaysia: End Use of Sedition Act
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad listens to questions during an interview with foreign media on the government's one year anniversary in Putrajaya, Malaysia on Thursday, May 9, 2019.
© 2019 AP Photo/Vincent Thian
(New York) – The Malaysian government should reinstate its moratorium on using the Sedition Act pending the
DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
DMT has one of the oldest histories of human use.Indigenous groups have been using it for upwards of over 4,000 years in the form of a brew with DMT and MAOI containing plants.
Hear them roar: How humans and chickadees understand each other: High-arousal vocalizations are understood by both humans and other species in the animal kingdom, study says
The researchers examined the elements within vocalizations that indicate a level of arousal such as fear or excitement..
Coral reefs shifting away from equator: New research reveals a dramatic rebalancing of young corals from tropical to subtropical waters during the last 40 years
"Climate change seems to be redistributing coral reefs, the same way it is shifting many other marine species," said Nichole Price, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and lead author of the paper. "The clarity in this trend is stunning, but we don't yet know whether
How trees could save the climate
The Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich investigates nature-based solutions to climate change.
Neural nets to simulate molecular motion cast: Machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations
"This means we can now model materials and molecular dynamics billions of times faster compared to conventional quantum methods, while retaining the same level of accuracy," said Justin Smith, Los Alamos physicist and Metropolis Fellow in the laboratory's Theoretical Division. Understanding how molecules move is critical to tapping their potential
Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation: New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa.
New research being presented here finds mold spores may also survive on the outside walls of spacecraft.
Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago
Until that point, the success of organisms living within the marine environment had been strongly controlled by non-biological factors, including ocean chemistry and climate.
Saving Beethoven: Preventing hereditary deafness: Optimized gene-editing tool prevents hearing loss in mice with hereditary deafness without detectable off-target effects
The animals -- known as Beethoven mice -- were treated for the same genetic mutation that causes progressive hearing loss in humans, culminating in profound deafness by their mid-20s..