Does Life really exist on a planet orbiting a ‘white dwarf’?
BBC hails a discovery of a planet around a white dwarf in the habitable zone and suggests there may be life there. That suggestion has flaws.
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Opening a new Window into the past – Ancient eDNA
eDNA, Environmental DNA, extracted from frozen permafrost opens a new window that allows us to explore past life … but permafrost is melting
Climate: ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane
An alarm is being raised concerning a big increase of Methane within our Atmosphere. The fear is that we have crossed a tipping point and that vast amounts of methane are being released from wetlands because of warming. NOAA Data That latest data we have comes via the January update from NOAA. First let’s take … Read more
How to cope with kids who embrace conspiracy theories?
Published within the British Journal of Developmental Psychology is a study that reveals that kids are prime targets for fake news. One word … “Yikes!”. Titled “Measuring adolescents’ beliefs in conspiracy theories: Development and validation of the Adolescent Conspiracy Beliefs Questionnaire” the open access paper reveals that a team of researchers created and then validated … Read more
Surgeon General of Florida refuses to verify that vaccines work
The following quote is attributed to Upton Sinclair. He was the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California during the Great Depression in 1934 and lost. He then published a book about the experience titled “I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked”. Various papers published exerts that included this now-famous quote … It Is Difficult to Get … Read more
Top 5 Surprising Revelations About the Religious
Religious labels such as “Catholic” or “Atheist” can fool us into thinking we truly understand the people behind such terms: we really don’t