Drugs Don’t Work
…was the second single from the Verve’s breakthrough “Urban Hymns” album, with “Bittersweet Symphony” being a very hard act to follow indeed. This is not quite what Richard Ashcroft had …
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Politics versus Biology
You can transform a lot, but you can’t transform biological realities – at least not yet. First this, from a year ago: Women who identify as male are not being …
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Chernobyl versus nuclear power
I don’t know whether it was the intention of the creators of HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series to scare the viewers’ pants off about the nuclear technology (I do know it was …
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Was Polish American revolutionary hero a heroine?
Pulaski Day, when the Polish-American community celebrates their Polish-Americaness annually and named after a Polish general who had died at Savannah in 1779, might have to be soon renamed Pulaska …
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Neuston, we have a problem
How often do we see good intentions not translating into good results? A very interesting new example – as we attempt to clean up the oceans from plastic (good thing …
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The Genesis Event
A new, fascinating study suggests that all modern humans descend from an “Adam and Eve” couple who lived sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago – but also that 90 …
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Low CO2 killed the megafauna star
As with the present day fauna and flora extinctions, humans have been traditionally blamed for the extinction events over the past several tens of thousands of years. Maybe not so …
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Orange Planet Bad
Donald Trump might not have had a great success at the midterms, as predicted winning some and losing some, but the Mother Nature seems to be celebrating Donald Making Earth …
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Call another Doctor Doctor
Back in September, Australia’s very own Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer went viral and became an international news after complaining on Twitter that a Qantas air crew member (gender unspecified) referred to …
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I swiped on a sexbot
Well, not really. If I did, it would have made for a fascinating blog post, and I, no doubt, would have had a more enthralling online conversation than many one …
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Is the internet making you miserable?
Kanye West seems to think so, at least in regards to the social media: “There are people who are committing suicide due to not getting enough likes,” Ye tweeted Saturday …
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The Weakest Generation
Depression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
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The miracle of the ordinary
I had an epiphany the other day. I was driving to my home, in the inner north of Brisbane, from Archerfield on the southside of the town. The route is …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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What on Earth is a Kalashnikov electric car?
I know there is Christmas in July, but is there an April Fools’ Day in August? Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a …
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Out of your league
New research from the University of the Obvious sheds light on our online dating habits: Most people who use online dating websites seek partners who are out of their league, …
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When Blue Planet turns into Blueberry Planet
God bless science – thanks to Anders Sandberg, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute we now know what would happened if the ball of space …
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Brain don’t lie: progressives less tolerant
A fascinating new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: In a new study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers found that self-identified liberals were more likely to notice when candidates deviated from the …
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