Education
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Hitler definitely died in 1945 according to new study of his teeth | AFP
"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon," professor Philippe ...
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The Taste of Another’s Thoughts | John Michael Greer
May 16, 2018 (EcoSopha.net) -- We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industrial society is ...
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The Wired Guide To Crispr | Megan Molteni
A CRISPR protein targets specific sections of DNA and cuts them. Scientists have turned this natural defense mechanism in bacteria into a tool for gene editing. Credit: Jenna Luecke and David ...
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Amateur mathematician partially solves 60-year-old problem | Bob Yirka
The 1581-vertex, non-4-colourable unit-distance graph G. Credit: arXiv:1804.02385 April 24, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Professional biologist and amateur mathematician Aubrey de Grey has partially solved ...
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Gender inequality is 'drowning out' the voices of women scientists | Heather Ford & Petra Dekens
Credit: CC0 Public Domain April 24, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A University of Cambridge researcher is calling for the voices of women to be given a fairer platform at a leading scientific conference. Dr. ...
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Binary Pablum For The Masses | Emanuele Corso
Early container of Pablum. Image courtesy of the Hospital for Sick Children.Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust April 17, 2018 The smoke and mirrors tactics of the 2016 presidential campaign continue ...
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Obesity rates keep rising for U.S. adults | Dennis Thompson
Photo: martin.mutch, flickr (CC BY 2.0)March 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Obesity rates have continued to climb significantly among American adults, but the same hasn't held true for children, a new ...
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Western diet depletes artery-protecting immune cells | Dalia Gaddis and Catherine Hedrick
Cross section of an aorta from a mouse that was fed a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, which accelerates the build-up of plaque. The large red plaque on the inside of the aorta was labeled with oil ...
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The Twilight of Authority | John Michael Greer
Painting by German artist Juergen Puetz. Photo: The New Indian ExpressMarch 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the need for a rhetorical education -- that is, an ...
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Stephen Hawking pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe -- here’s what it is | Lorenzo Bianchi
Stephen Hawking. Lwp Kommunikáció/Flickr, CC BY-SA March 15, 2018 (The Conversation) -- Rumour has it that Albert Einstein spent his last few hours on Earth scribbling something on a piece of paper ...
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A Rhetorical Education | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerMarch 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Quite a bit of the discussion on this blog and its predecessors has focused on controversial issues, the kind of thing that causes rhetoric to fly ...
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