Politically Polarized Brains Share An intolerance Of Uncertainty | Brown University

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain May 14, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Since the 1950s, political scientists have theorized that political polarization -- increased numbers of "political partisans" who view t ...

Birds vs. Tweets: Which Sounds Are You Tuned Into? — Mickey Z.

European Starlings (Photo: Rachel Wood/Great Backyard Bird Count) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 3, 2021 While walking in my neighborhood the other day, I heard a beautiful and astonishingly comple ...

Are You a Free Agent or a Cyborg? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World New Trust April 26, 2021 “If something strikes me as probable, I say it; and that is how, unlike everyone else, I remain a free agent.” (Cicero) In a recent article, I shared with y ...

Moderate Geomagnetic Storm Watch For Sunday 25 April 2021 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

April 22, 2021 (NOAA) -- NOAA issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for Sunday 25 April 2021. A partial halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was associated with a C3 flare from Region 2816 at 22 ...

Vaccines May Protect Against New COVID-19 Strains -- And Maybe The Common Cold | Johns Hopkins University

Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: ...

Reducing Police Inappropriate Use Of Force | Nora Luongo

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain April 22, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Experts on violence have policy and procedural recommendations for reducing police use of inappropriate force. A report from the Police ...

Pentagon COVID Microchips: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 16, 2021 I looked up “irony” in the dictionary the other day and found a video of a contemporary human being declaring: “I’ll put up with health passports to get my ...

What If I Told You the COVID “Rules” Make No Sense? — Mickey Z.

(screenshot from The Matrix) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 14, 2021 Last year, the #woke crowd had a field day mocking Trump’s mention of injecting disinfectant and/or drinking bleach. They were ...

Reversible CRISPR Method Controls Gene Expression Leaving DNA Sequence Unchanged | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

A new CRISPR method allows researchers to silence most genes in the human genome without altering the underlying DNA sequence -- and then reverse the changes. Credit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead ...

Children learned 'little or nothing' during school closures, despite online learning | University of Oxford

Photo: litmos.comApril 9, 2021 (Phys.org) -- School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, accord ...

Therapists Can Weaken Traumatic Memories | Caitlin Clark

April 8, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Scientists could be a step closer to reducing the impact of traumatic memories. Procedures used by clinicians to indirectly reactivate traumatic memories render a win ...