In a recent social media post, a confused wife and mother wondered what it is about sticks that so fascinates the male of the human species. When her son found a “pretty unremarkable” – she thought – stick, he and her husband colluded to sneak it home. “Why bring it home? It’
“Follow the science,” they said. If only they had. Instead, when it came to the Covid pandemic, politicians, bureaucrats, media, and too many scientists, put science a long, long second to politics. All along, the same people blithering about “the science” have, at best, been too often woefully, stubbornly wrong.
righttolife.org.uk James Roberts developed a folding incubator at Loughborough University when he was just 22. His invention is being used in the Ukraine to save the lives of premature babies born during the war. Final year university project saves lives Inspired by a documentary about Syria, James Roberts
Mary Neal University of Strathclyde theconversation.com The news that the first successful UK womb transplant has been performed at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford has been greeted as the “dawn of a new era” in reproductive medicine. The recipient is a 34-year-old woman born without a womb, and the
Matthew Gilmour Quadram Institute theconversation.com I should know better, but I admit that I do it too. I’ve just pulled some sliced chicken out of the fridge, as I set out to make up some sandwiches. I notice the chicken is within its use-by date, but I’m
Emily Evans Emily has worked in the media and communications industry in Western Australia as both a TV journalist and media advisor. She has a passion for scientific research and enjoys writing about the latest and quirkiest discoveries. Emily is also a big fan of going on adventures, eating Mexican
Hope springs eternal for the return of the thylacine. New scientific research related to another species, currently on the edge of extinction, may one day give such hopes some credence. Almost as common as dodgy “sightings” of the almost-certainly-extinct Tasmanian tiger, are hopeful speculations that, Jurassic Park-style, scientists will be
Meryl Nass Dr Meryl Nass, MD is an internal medicine specialist in Ellsworth, ME, and has over 42 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1980. brownstone.org This report is designed to help readers think about some big topics:
Vlad III, ruler of Wallachia (now part of Romania) in the 15th century is one of the more notoriously brutal rulers of history. While Bram Stoker clearly derived the name Dracula and the location Transylvania, scholars debate just how much the historical prince influenced the creation of the fictional vampire.
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
Monica Hughes PhD themariachiyears.substack.com Mathew Crawford at Rounding the Earth has been busy with a new one that piqued my interest. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/earlier-covid-19-outbreaks-on-military?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web In this installment, he connects more dots in his
Back in the dawn of the 80s, a friend returned to school from a trip to America. He regaled us with one story I particularly remember: visiting a house where they played chess on a computer — against another computer user at the other end of the country, via a telephone
As I wrote recently, continual advances in medical science may or may not prolong human life routinely well past a century, but at least we future codgers will go to our graves with a whole bunch of shiny new body parts. But what’s the point of living into your
Laurie Mintz University of Florida theconversation.com Imagine a steamy sex scene involving a woman and a man from your favourite television show or movie. It’s likely that both parties orgasm. But this doesn’t reflect reality. Because during heterosexual sexual encounters, women have far fewer orgasms than men.
Vijay Raj Jayaraj Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, VA and a contributor to CFACT. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India. cfact.org Here in Bengaluru, India, where I live, the
www.cfact.org The media is calling July 2023 the ‘hottest month on record’ and even the ‘hottest month in the history of civilization’. Keeping in mind that July is typically the warmest month of every year, NASA satellite data indicate that July 2023 was the warmest in the satellite
