Hilary A. Diefenbach Speech Language Pathologist and Cognitive Rehabilitation Specialist Marcus Institute for Brain Health; Instructor University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus High-profile sports like football and soccer have brought greater attention in recent years to concussions – the mildest form of traumatic brain injury. Yet people often do not realize
Matthew Wills Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution University of Bath and Marcello Ruta Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Lincoln Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring
Randolph Grace University of Canterbury Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). But whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess. In February, ChatGPT set the record as the fastest app to reach 100
Barry Markovsky University of South Carolina theconversation.com Is it possible for there to be ghosts? – Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died. In a 2021 poll of 1,000 American adults, 41%
Drew Dawson, Director, Appleton Institute Madeline Sprajcer, Lecturer in Psychology CQUniversity Australia Last night you probably slept for seven to eight hours. About one or two of these was likely in deep sleep, especially if you’re young or physically active. That’s because sleep changes with age and exercise
A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com In a recent series, I discussed the how unsafe and ineffective the SSRI antidepressants are and how the immense amount of money made from selling depression (and its indefinite “treatment”) to everyone caused effective cures treatments for depression to become almost completely forgotten. One of
Humans remain endlessly fascinated by Mars. Still, notwithstanding Elon Musk’s grand dreams, our Red Planet neighbour currently remains a planet inhabited entirely by robots. Still, those robots are continuing to expand our knowledge of Mars. Including what were once its bodies of open water. Since landing on Mars in
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com It’s hard to find a better case study of how experts exploit the media and democratic procedures to advance unethical agendas than the push in the United Kingdom to create “embryo banks” for scientific research. This might seem like
So, is the ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ stereotype based in fact after all? A new review of the scientific literature suggests that it is. Which comes first, though, the cats or the crazy, is not so clear. A new review suggests that having a cat as a pet could potentially double
Kerri Duncan Kerri is an Adelaide-based freelance writer with a background in animal science and molecular biology. Always up for an investigative adventure, Kerri is addicted to exploring Earth’s wonders and finding as many waterfalls as possible. Her work in life sciences has deepened her appreciation of the natural
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Helen Petousis-Harris wrote a pandemic opinion piece It’s not the apocalypse, but yes, you should care, published on 20 February 2020. At this time, China – where around 30,000 deaths occur each day – had reported 2,121 Covid-related deaths across
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In March 2020, Dr. Robert Kadlec addressed a House committee to confirm his role and responsibilities as the federal government’s top preparedness official coordinating the government’s COVID-19 response.
Michael Brown Michael is an observational astronomer who studies the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time. Michael’s research team has found that the most massive galaxies grow relatively slowly, and that the relationship between stellar mass and dark matter mass evolves very little over billions of years. lens.monash.
rutherford.org Charlottesville, Va. – In advance of a holiday season that could see record numbers of ancestry kits given as gifts, the Rutherford Institute is cautioning the public about the significant privacy risks associated with corporations, government agencies and hackers possibly gaining access to one’s familial DNA. As the
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org US-based genomics scientist Kevin McKernan says he has lost
The demise of the dinosaurs has long been a topic of intense fascination. Not least, it seems, because the realisation that dinosaurs had existed, and just what they were, nicely dovetailed with the Scientific Revolution. Having discovered that a host of gigantic ‘terrible lizards’ once thrived on Earth, the natural
