Shai Carmi Associate Professor of Population and Statistical Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harald Ringbauer Group Leader, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
There are some must-see events unfolding in our skies in 2024. Unfortunately, for those in the Southern Hemisphere, some of them won’t be seen, such as the upcoming total solar eclipse over North America. Still, there are a few night-sky spectaculars coming up for us southerners. If
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Oxford University’s Principle Trial Collaborative Group published their trial of Ivermectin in outpatient Covid-19 patients in the Journal of Infection on 29 February 2023. In a show of predictably compromised science, the conclusions made by the authors do not
Alexandra Gibson Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington Alex Beattie Research Fellow, School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as
Only a mainstream media journalist could argue that a decline in general intelligence is a good thing. Probably because, if everybody else dumbs down, the numbnuts in the media might finally have something to feel good about themselves. Of course, we, ah, ‘more experienced’ folks always like to think that
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager
When it comes to the weather, a change is as good as a holiday. One winter some years back, here in Tasmania, we had several months of continual rain, with only a handful of rain-free days. It was maddening. At the other end of the scale, friends who’ve
It’s conveniently forgotten now, but Frank Herbert’s Dune didn’t always enjoy the “SF Classic” status it does today. First published, as many SF novels were at the time, in serial form in a magazine, it struggled to find a book publisher. Its first book appearance, after more
If you ask people who watch a lot of television who the smartest scientist in history was, they’ll almost certainly say either Stephen Hawking or, God help us, Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you’re lucky, they might recall Albert Einstein. But, while at least Hawking was undoubtedly very smart,
As I recently reported for The BFD, a claimed new lead in the case of vanished airline MH370 claims to have drastically narrowed the likely crash site. The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur in 2014. All evidence points to the plane crashing somewhere over the
cfact.org Next step: sustainable human steak? They don’t mention the “sustainable” word, but you know they want to. Right from the start they’re selling it to us: Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science,
Despite the flurry of silly commentary this statement will inevitably provoke, the fact of evolution is beyond reasonable dispute. That organisms have evolved over time, and continue to do so today, is one of the most well-attested facts in science. How they evolve remains the subject of lively scientific
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
David Livermore David Livermore is retired Professor of Microbiology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. brownstone.org War spurs medical innovation. Ambulances to swiftly deliver the casualties of Napoleon’s armies to field surgeons were the brainchild of Jean-Dominique Larrey. Florence Nightingale established professional nursing in the Crimea. The
