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Why NASA Shot Mouse Sperm Into Space

Why NASA Shot Mouse Sperm Into Space

Just what are astronauts getting up to, out there in space? The headline Sperm can survive in space for 200 years begs so many questions. If we shone a blacklight in the ISS would it look like a Jackson Pollock painting? As it turns out, the headline refers to, not

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Out for Blood in the Search to Stall Aging

Elie Dolgin knowablemagazine.org Out for Blood in the Search to Stall Aging A gaggle of biotech start-ups are trying vastly different approaches to spin animal studies into the next big anti-aging therapy. It’s too early to know which, if any, will succeed. By Elie Dolgin 5.6.2021

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COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 2

COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 2

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. Editor’s note: More than

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Discussing the Weather

Discussing the Weather

Chris Sellars I like to keep an eye on the weather as it’s handy to know which way the wind blows and if a hard rain is gonna fall. I am not qualified though. I don’t call myself an expert or a professional. I have been rained on

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Wuhan Lab Leak Theory: Why Is This Even a Controversial Statement?

Wuhan Lab Leak Theory: Why Is This Even a Controversial Statement?

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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Electric Power Fantasies Are Lining Up

Electric Power Fantasies Are Lining Up

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Seems like every big policy gun wants to take a shot at fantasizing the decarbonization and electrification of the energy system. No doubt that is where the government policy

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The Disgraceful New Zealand Royal Society

The Disgraceful New Zealand Royal Society

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The New Zealand Royal Society continues to disgrace its British parent body’s prescribed rationale of absolute respect for factual scientific evidence, every time it touches on Maori issues Its latest unadulterated nonsense, published over the heading “New Research Shows Maori Travelled to the Antarctic

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Leaked Video Shows Live Bats at WIV

Leaked Video Shows Live Bats at WIV

The cloud of circumstantial evidence around the “lab-leak” theory refuses to dissipate – and just got darker. From the beginning of the pandemic, there were accusations that the virus causing COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That directly contradicted official claims that the virus emerged

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Do Aliens Exist? We Asked Five Experts

Chynthia Wijaya Noor Gillani The Conversation Before joining The Conversation, Chynthia worked in video production and editing, freelancing for Vice Australia and the Museum of Chinese Australian History. Before joining The Conversation, Noor worked as a regional reporter with Seven West Media and News Corp. Prior to that, she freelanced

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COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 1

COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 1

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. Has there ever been a

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Early to Rise? It Depends on What ‘Early’ Means to You

If you’ve ever experienced or known someone with depression, you’ll be familiar with the endless lying in bed. It’s not laziness or “drama”: it’s just the soul-crushing impossibility of emerging and facing another grind through a grey world. New research suggests that that’s just part

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T.Rex Was Quite the Little Nipper

T.Rex Was Quite the Little Nipper

As I wrote recently, Tyrannosaurus Rex was slower and yet way scarier than we might have thought. Now, they just got even scarier. Contrary to the Jurassic Park image of the sprinting, solitary behemoth, new evidence suggests that Tyrannosaurs were likely much slower, but a much more dogged pursuer. Worse,

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Dogs: It’s in Their Nature

Nature or nurture? It’s a long-running debate: do our genes matter more than our environment? Is ancestry more important than upbringing? The politically-correct answer, currently, is nurture, all the way. After all, pretending that we’re anything other than a tabula rasa at birth raises some alarming possibilities for

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