Post Overview
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Analysis
2 months ago+13 13 0The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight
A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.
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Current Event
2 months ago+14 14 0Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says
Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’
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Current Event
3 months ago+4 4 0Palestinian in critical condition after 70-day hunger strike
Maher al-Akhras began his hunger strike after he was arrested and placed into administrative detention in late July.
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Analysis
3 months ago+6 6 0Researchers argue that fine-tuning is a clear feature of biological systems and it is even more extreme in biological systems than in inorganic ones.
Fine-tuning has received much attention in physics, and it states that the fundamental constants of physics are finely tuned to precise values for a r…
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Current Event
4 months ago+2 2 0Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich funded Israeli settler group
Russian oligarch’s firms donated £74m to Elad, who are accused of trying to seize Palestinian neighbourhoods
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Current Event
4 months ago+4 4 0Iran to execute Iranian Kurdish political prisoner after denying retrial
Haydar Ghorbani, an Iranian Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death by Iran, had his appeal
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Analysis
4 months agoAnalysis+11 11 0Prebiotic chemistry and human intervention
Experimentalists in the field of prebiotic chemistry strive to re-enact what may have happened when life arose from inanimate material. How often human intervention was needed to obtain a specific result in their studies is worth reporting.
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Analysis
4 months ago+15 15 0Astronomers find no signs of alien tech after scanning over 10 million stars
An Australian telescope examined a huge patch of the sky for signs of life. It came up empty-handed.
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Video/Audio
6 months ago+4 4 0Reporters - Covid 19: Making the poor poorer
Every day thousands of people around the world continue to become direct casualties of the Covid-19. But there’s another group slowly emerging – indirect victims who have not contracted the virus but…
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Current Event
7 months ago+3 3 0Israel's cabinet meets to finalise plans to annex parts of the West Bank
Calls for sanctions are intensifying as the cabinet meets and Netanyahu awaits US approval
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Analysis
7 months ago+21 21 0Here’s why so many physicists are wrong about free will – George Ellis | Aeon Essays
A crude understanding of physics sees determinism at work in the Universe. Luckily, molecular uncertainty ensures this isn’t so
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Analysis
8 months ago+4 4 0Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have identified two mechanisms underpinning how the heart influences our perception, the brain
Heart and brain communicate constantly. For example, when we encounter a dangerous situation, signals from the brain make sure that the heart beats faster. When we relax the heart slows down. Interestingly, vice versa - the heartbeat also affects the ...
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Current Event
10 months ago+11 11 0The violence in Delhi is not a ‘riot’. It is targeted anti-Muslim brutality |
Blame the poisonous ideology of the Hindu nationalist BJP for the blood on India’s streets
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Expression
10 months ago+2 2 0Opinion: While Muslims are being murdered in India, the rest of the world is too slow to condemn
There are some grim parallels between Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938 and Delhi today
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Current Event
11 months ago+8 8 0Decades After a Palestinian American Activist Was Assassinated in California, Two Suspects in His Killing Are Living Openly in Israel
Baruch Ben-Yosef, who was born in the United States as Andy Green, and Keith “Israel” Fuchs were named suspects immediately after Alex Odeh’s 1988 killing.
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Interactive
11 months ago+13 13 0800,000 Syrians Have Fled in Three Months. This Is What it Looks Like.
Some crowd into trucks. Others go on foot. The current Syrian migration is similar in scale to the Rohingya crisis in 2017.
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Analysis
11 months ago+4 4 0Why we should be wary of blaming 'overpopulation' for the climate crisis
Jane Goodall's comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.
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Current Event
11 months ago+3 3 0UN releases list of 112 companies with ties to Israeli settlements
The UN human rights office released Wednesday a long-anticipated report which names companies with ties to Israeli West Bank settlements.
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Analysis
12 months ago+2 2 0What’s Wrong with Physics
A physicist slams hype about multiverses, string theory, and quantum computers and calls for more diversity in his field
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Expression
1 year agoExpression+2 2 0I was in prison with Mustafa Kassem. His death is a tragedy for Egypt — and the U.S.
How could a U.S. citizen die in an Egyptian prison when top U.S. officials championed his cause?