Deep history is endlessly fascinating. Especially as science opens clearer and clearer views of the world-as-it-(probably)-was, not just millions, but billions of years ago. The Ancient Earth Globe, for instance, is an interactive globe that lets you track just where any particular point on today’s Earth was
Joe Wang brownstone.org Joe Wang, Ph.D., was a lead scientist for Sanofi Pasteur’s SARS vaccine project in 2003. He is now the president of New Tang Dynasty TV (Canada), a media partner of The Epoch Times. Warning Long read. 1424 words. The Centers for Disease Control and
The stoush over whether matauranga Maori should be taught in the school NCEA science syllabus — sparked by a letter to the Listener by seven emeritus professors last July who asserted that indigenous knowledge isn’t scientific — has reached a stalemate. The Royal Society Te Aparangi has extricated itself from what
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Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Alex Washburne brownstone.org Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market
Media NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science Despite continued attempts to discredit Ivermectin as an early treatment for Covid-19, studies continue to confirm its effectiveness. A January 2022 study from Brazil looked at prophylactic (preventative) use of low doses of Ivermectin (0.2mg/kg for two days per
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
The tv series Chernobyl reprised an old Soviet joke: What’s big as a house, burns 20 litres of fuel every hour, puts out a shitload of smoke and noise and cuts an apple into three pieces? A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces! Lest Americans be
Michelle Wheeler particle.scitech.org.au Michelle is a former science and environment reporter for The West Australian. Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny and meet isolated tribes in the Malaysian jungle.
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
So, now Laurel Hubbard has the perfect excuse for bombing out so embarrassingly at the Olympics: she was just on the rag. Laurel is a woman, after all — a really-real, totally, 100% woman and don’t you dare be so bigoted as to suggest otherwise. It’s science! Trans women
It’s the old cliche: my whole life flashed before my eyes. Faced with imminent death, countless fictional heroes have experienced an instant rewind of their lives. Even if some, like Zaphod Beeblebrox of the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy stories, are a little unsure: “At least I assume
It’s often posited as a supposed knock-down argument against the idea of human evolution: “If we evolved from apes why are there still apes?” But it’s a question that fundamentally misunderstands evolution. At the same time, it’s not as foolish as sneering “IFLScience” types make out. In
Get out of here with your conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccines from Pfizer being able to access your DNA. What utter nonsense. Listen to “The Science”™. The mRNA does not enter the nucleus of the cells where DNA resides. Instead, it completely breaks down once the instructions have been delivered
It’s fascinating to comb through the detritus of the history of science and pondering ideas which once ruled supreme but are now forgotten. The Luminiferous Aether, Phlogiston, or the Martian Canals. Each of these ideas enjoyed a more or less lengthy time as the ruling scientific explanation. Sometimes decades,
