The Best and Worst of 2024
One thing for certain is that President Trump is a great friend of Israel and has declared that he not only wants American-Israeli hostages back, he wants them all given back.
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Travis Timmerman appears to have been among thousands of people released from Syria’s notorious prisons.
Gain of Function, Loss of… Everything Else
Any research activity or sponsorship of scientific endeavors that are capable of mass extinction, such as GOF, must be subjected to a higher level of accountability and scrutiny by our elected leaders.
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World’s Best Airlines Revealed
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. Qatar Airways has been voted the World’s Best Airline at the 2024 World Airline Awards, the eighth time that the airline has scooped the Airline of
Marine Microbes Can’t Degrade Plastics – New Research
Victor Gambarini, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Marine plastic pollution is a massive environmental issue, with a plastic smog of an estimated 170 trillion particles afloat in the world’s oceans. This highlights how urgently we need to develop strategies to mitigate this environmental crisis. We know some microbes
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EVs Should Only Be for Consenting Adults
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history
How Japan Handled the Pandemic
Nick Jenkins I am a New Zealander who has been living in Japan for the last ten years. I have noticed New Zealanders being advised to prepare for another pandemic. Here in Japan we handled the last pandemic extremely well by not panicking and not closing businesses or mandating vaccines
What the Statistics Don’t Tell Us
Tani Newton I’ve been writing about the declining fertility of much of the world and our prospects for the future when population decline sets in. It makes me want to ask what the alternative to this grim fate is. Could it be possible to change it? Research looking at
When Did Dinos Get Warm?
As you probably know, the word dinosaur is a portmanteau of the Greek words, deinos (terrible) and sauros (lizard). Which is exactly how the creatures were long regarded: gigantic lizards. Part and parcel of that was the assumption that dinosaurs were ‘cold-blooded’ or, more correctly, ectothermic. That is, like modern-day