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7 years ago
Analysis swift528491A huge new review of gun research has bad news for the NRA
The findings, while limited, point in one direction: Gun control can save lives.
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8 years ago
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The decline of bees threatens plant evolution, stunting plant growth and muting scents
The feared demise of bumblebees could bring the evolution of the plants they pollinate grinding to a halt – leaving them vulnerable to new diseases and other threats – a new study suggests. Researchers in Switzerland tested what happened when field mustard plants were pollinated solely by bumblebees or hoverflies over nine generations. The results were dramatic: the bee-pollinated plants grew taller and produced twice as much scent.
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8 years ago
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How nostalgia made America great again. When the present looks bleak, we reach for a rose-tinted past.
Make America great again. Clearly the message resonated. In 2016, prior to the presidential election, the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan group, published its annual American Values Survey. It revealed 51 percent of the population felt the American way of life had changed for the worse since the 1950s. Further, 7 in 10 likely Donald Trump voters said American society has gotten worse since that romanticised decade. Of course America today has its problems, but by many standards...
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8 years ago
I thought it would be that easy, too! But either I've been struck temporarily blind to the 'NSFW' button, or it doesn't exist in my live editing screen. Oh, curse my incompetence!
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8 years ago
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Why Cancer Drug Prices Keep Rising in the U.S.
It comes as no surprise that cancer drugs cost a lot. Some years ago, researchers even coined the term “financial toxicity” to describe the distress caused by cancer prices. Now, a new study shows that the prices for the top 10 cancer drugs are 42 percent higher in the U.S. than they are in the United Kingdom. No one benefits from this upward spiral except drug companies.
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8 years ago
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Treating depression is guesswork. But brain scans and machine learning programs are paving the way to a breakthrough.
Here’s a frustrating fact for anyone who has been prescribed medication or therapy for depression: your doctor doesn’t know what treatment will work for you. The two main treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy, a talk-centered approach that gets patients to readjust their habits, and anti-depressant medications.Both are about equally effective. Around 40 percent of patients will get better on either. But no one treatment reliably works for everyone. And it’s not just about talk therap...
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8 years ago
That's what I wondered! I wondered if the image bot marked it as sensitive material. I didn't mark is as NSFW - well, not intentionally. Maybe I did a technologically idiotic thing when I posted it?
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8 years ago
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NSFW Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days
In this first ever observed case of ‘river piracy’, the Slims river vanished in just four days as intense glacier melt suddenly diverted its flow into another watercourse.
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8 years ago
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Beyond white noise - the multi-coloured rainbow of sound
Most people are familiar with white noise, that static sound of an air conditioner that lulls us to sleep by drowning out any background noise. Except technically, the whirl of a fan or hum of the AC isn’t white noise at all. Many of the sounds we associate with white noise are actually pink noise, or brown, or green, or blue. In audio engineering, there’s a whole rainbow of noise colors, each with its own unique properties, that are used to produce music, help relaxation, and describe natur...
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8 years ago
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The 12 bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health
Antibiotic resistance could make c-sections, transplants and chemotherapy too dangerous to perform, warns the World Health Organisation.
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8 years ago
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The quest to kill NASA's superbug before it contaminates the entire solar system on space missions
A special microbe - called SAFR-032 - only shows up in NASA's ultra clean rooms. In space, its spores have a unique survival tactic, building up layers of cells to use as shields that in turn protect their DNA. When these tiny survivors return from orbit, they show greater resistance to antibiotics. In other words: space makes them stronger. This is a particular problem for NASA and its Outer Space Treaty, which forbids space agencies from interfering with the integrity of other planetary ...
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8 years ago
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Earth’s newest cloud is terrifyingly glorious
The "undulatas asperitas" is the first new cloud to be added to the International Cloud Atlas in half a century.
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8 years ago
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Small brains have big neuroscience gains
Mapping the entire nervous system of the sea squirt tadpole larva -- only the second animal to be analysed in full -- reveals that even small brains lead to big knowledge gains.
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8 years ago
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As many countries erupt with alt-right rhetoric, where are Canada’s missing Neo-Nationalists?
It’s a puzzle why neo-nationalism has become such a force. Why now? Why has the effect been so powerful, and yet varied both across countries and within them? More importantly, why does Canada seem to be immune to this worrying trend, and how can we harness its values to promote tolerance and peace in an increasingly tumultuous world?