Maybe I shouldn’t ask. If I think about this, a drumstick may never taste the same again. Anyway, here goes: ” … [W]e’ve known for a while that chickens are very intelligent and feeling bird beings. And, so too, are many other birds. The excellent essays written for Psycholo[...]
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January 25th, 2021 - 11:34 pm § in Environment, Science
Mother Earth’s disappearing ice
“Ice is steadily disappearing across much of the world, and a majority of the losses are driven by climate change,” a Scientific American article published on Monday, January 25, 2021, concludes. (Read it here.) The article says the melt rate has risen over 50% since the 1990s, from 800 [...]
Restoring a sense of reality
“Institutional distrust has been rising for decades. … Trust in Congress is in the basement. … We’ve made enemies out of one another.” And much of this estrangement is grounded in false beliefs and conspiracy theories. Americans once were renowned for their scientific a[...]
Whither climate policy?
With the impending change in U.S. administrations, we can look forward to a more rational science-based climate policy (I say “more” because Republicans in Congress will throw up impediments), but will it — will anything — be enough? In these extracts from an article original[...]
Covid-19 mutant is a “ticking time bomb”
“Viruses mutate all the time, often with no impact, but this one … spreads more easily.” And even though it doesn’t “throw off vaccine efficacy or cause more severe disease,” that makes it “a potential catastrophe.” That’s because, R[...]
Will she get a Nobel Prize for the research that led to Covid-19 vaccines?
It reads like a script for a made-for-TV inspirational drama. Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and at times self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA,” a DNA component, because she was convinced it “could be used for something [...]
December 19th, 2020 - 12:07 am § in Science
A new “WOW!” signal from space?
“Astronomers … are investigating an intriguing radio wave emission … from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun,” the Guardian, a daily newspaper based in Manchester, England, reported on Friday, December 20, 2020. “The narrow beam of radio wave[...]
Cloud waterfall (video)
Read story here about Australian tourists witnessing a rare atmospheric phenomenon. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Distribution of Moderna’s vaccine could begin next week
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is expected to receive FDA emergency use authorization on Friday, December 18, 2020, with distribution set to begin the following Monday. Like Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna’s requires two shots, and is 94% effective in preventing the disease, and les[...]
A theory on why people believe b.s.
This article contains real science and snide liberal commentary. We all know first impressions matter, and are hard to overcome. That helps explain why people believe falsehoods despite all evidence to the contrary. European researchers found a correlation between subjects’ cognitive ability a[...]