In a review of Elizabeth Kolbert’s book “The Sixth Extinction” the reviewer, Michael S. Roth, says that “We have entered an era in which human beings have begun to change everything about the planet’s interlocking ecosystems, and we have put many of those systems and our own species at enormous risk.” We have been bad …
21% of British adults say they support paying extra for goods and services to help deal with climate change. 72% admit that their own standard of living is more important to them than helping to solve problems caused by climate change. (RSA/The Times) To suggest that you can throw all that gunk into the atmosphere …
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Essentially, every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. Moreover, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than did those in your right. We are all, literally, star children, and our bodies are made of stardust. (from “A Universe from Nothing” by Lawrence m. Krauss). I …
The British Cohort Study, conducted by academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, used information from two UK studies from 1958 (4,267 men and 4,537 women) and 1970 (3,412 men and 3,658 women), assessing intelligence at age 10 and 11, and then asking political questions at the age of 33. The study claims that there …
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The discovery of a cheap and almost absurdly simple way of making stem cells – the “master” cells that can develop into any tissue – could lead to a new era of “personalised” medicine. The breakthrough was made by a young researcher in Japan, who found that blood cells from mice could be turned back …
