Dan Denis Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow, University of York Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down the exact functions of sleep
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a health practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com What would you rather – the injection or
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Much finger-wagging and self-righteous condemnation are happening in the halls of government these days, regarding revelations that HHS, our umbrella public
As a child, it was fun to make daisy chains. A group of little girls, yes often girls would pinch a hole in the stem and thread the next daisy stem into the gap. Then repeat. It was a simple activity. Those were the days. There was great delight in
There’s a deep crisis crippling science. Just don’t ask the Science Bros and IFLScience normies about it, because their grasp of actual science rarely goes beyond witless internet memes. These are the people who think Neil deGrasse Tyson is a great scientist. Behind the public facade of ‘Trust
Karin Hammarberg Psychosocial aspects of infertility and infertility treatment; infertility care in resource-constrained settings; parenting of children with disabilities. lens.monash.edu We’ve heard a lot about the impacts of Ozempic recently, from rapid weight loss and lowered blood pressure, to persistent vomiting and “Ozempic face”. Now we’re
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com A fundamental doctrine of public health are the inextricable links between animal, ecosystem and human health. The United Nations biosecurity agenda has misappropriated this doctrine into a ‘One Health’ approach. This article provides some background to One Health, using current declarations
David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
As you probably know, the word dinosaur is a portmanteau of the Greek words, deinos (terrible) and sauros (lizard). Which is exactly how the creatures were long regarded: gigantic lizards. Part and parcel of that was the assumption that dinosaurs were ‘cold-blooded’ or, more correctly, ectothermic. That is, like modern-day
John Klar libertynation.com Once upon a time, scientific inquiry was premised on ideas of objectivity, factual analysis, and avoiding bias. The advent of social justice theory, post-modernist thought, and climate alarmism have polluted the waters of many once-prestigious science journals. This political transformation of what was once called science
Thi Thuy Van Dinh Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh (LLM, PhD) worked on international law in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Subsequently, she managed multilateral organization partnerships for Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund and led environmental health
dailytelegraph.co.nz ANOTHER SO-CALLED COVID CONSPIRACY THEORY HAS COME TRUE, AFTER YEARS OF DENIALS FROM GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR ‘EXPERTS’. In a major development, Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acknowledged to Congress on Thursday that US taxpayers had funded gain-of-function research at the
In the comedy The Switch, the protagonist early on briefly encounters a homeless person who appears to be narrating his inner thoughts out loud, in a continuous, verbal, stream-of-consciousness. Taxi. Taxi driver. Taxi, taxi, taxi, taxi. Fat, pedaling, hooker-looking bitch. Pig-faced… Pig-faced, gimpy, limping mama. Man-boy. Little man-boy. Beady-eyed little
Owen Cumming Owen is a science communicator with a background in ecology and evolutionary biology. Owen enjoys surfing, hiking and convincing himself that his terrible woodworking has a “rustic” look. He firmly believes that quokkas’ smiles imply malicious intent. particle.scitech.org.au Tides are the natural rise and fall
It’s strange how many supposed “mysteries” persist in the popular imagination, long after they’ve been pretty much solved. The Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, the Tunguska explosion, the “Missing Link”. And, of course, how the Great Pyramids were built. There’s not much mystery left about how the pyramids were
In the last few weeks, another comet was making an appearance in the sky. Unfortunately, it wasn’t visible to the naked eye until it was nearing its closest approach to the Sun. This meant that, like the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury, it was only visible at all
