Some of the most stunning archaeological finds are the results of serendipity. Bedouin shepherd boys stumbling on the cave of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Napoleonic soldier tripping over the partly-buried Rosetta Stone. A warren of bunnies digging up prehistoric British tools. In a first-of-its-kind discovery
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, a question popped into the brain, “If a bio-plastic is still a plastic, why is it better for the planet?” Followed quickly by, “Is it better for the planet?” So what is a bio-plastic? A common one is made from fermented plant
Think of the word “fossil” and you will almost certainly picture bones. That’s because fossilisation is an incredibly rare and unusual process that prefers the hardest parts of organisms: bones, teeth, shells, woody trunks. Fossils of organisms lacking bones or shells, or the soft body parts of those that
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk Concerns have been raised by abortion supporters after scientists in Israel announced that they have managed to gestate more than a thousand mice in artificial wombs. At five days, the mice embryos were removed from their mothers’ wombs and placed in artificial wombs
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
Simon Thornley Ananish Chaudhuri covidplanb.co.nz António Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for frontal lobotomy, a supposed cure for mental illness. Ultimately, however, Moniz and the Nobel committee were wrong. The operation did irreparable harm to over fifty thousand patients and the results were far
Freedom of Choice is what you got. Freedom from Choice is what you want. Devo From the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, humans have fretted that the machines of our own inventions would also spell our extinction. First, weaving mills were going to make workers redundant. Then robots were going
Phillip W. Magness aier.org Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. In an explosive Senate hearing on March
AIER Staff aier.org Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns, invited back the scientists behind the Great
Marc Grey Despite being one of the safest types of energy generation, there is a common perception that nuclear power is dangerous. Probably the most common view about nuclear power danger is that a reactor may explode. In this article, we explore what type of explosions can occur and along
The notion of the “lost continent” of Lemuria was first put forward in the mid-19th century, attempting to explain the presence of lemur fossils in both Madagascar and India and nowhere in between. Zoologist Philip Sclater proposed that, like Atlantis, Lemuria had “sunk beneath the waves”, in what is
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos came last week from Israel. Researchers there have successfully grown mouse embryos for 12 days, which is about half the animal’s natural gestation period. The rough equivalent for
Points to Note in Regard to Agricultural Livestock Emissions Ruminant Methane and Nitrous Oxide. The Climate Commission draft report is a missed opportunity to properly redress the numerous and significant mistakes that governments over many years have made about the impact of ruminant methane emissions. FARM recommends the Commission rewrites
Craig Rucker cfact.org Nary a day goes by without an outrageous claim about climate in the media. These over-the-top, outrageous assertions are not science. They are talking points spoon-fed by radical pressure groups to an all-too-compliant media. They are often made up on the
