Month: November 2014
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How the Polish Buried Their Vampires
In the 1600s and 1700s in Drawsko Pomorskie, a town in northwestern Poland, a suspected vampire was buried with a sickle across his body and/or a stone in his mouth.
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Drug Overdose: The Real American Epidemic
As it turns out, our society’s habit of reaching for the medicine cabinet for every (heart)ache and pain is quite literally killing us.
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Simmer Down: Viruses Not ‘Fourth Domain’ of Life
Considering viruses to be a fourth domain would unnecessarily complicate evolutionary biology.
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Is RealClearScience Conservative or Liberal?
If we are hearing our critics correctly, we are both, and something much worse.
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Sci-Fi Now Reality: Mind Control of Gene Expression
Brain waves –> Bluetooth (microwave photons) –> Electric current –> Magnetic field –> Another electric current (in the implant) –> Near-infrared photons –> Activation of cellular genetic pathway –> Enzyme produced and secreted into the blood.
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Phil Plait’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
This article was originally published on RealClearScience. The Apocalypse is here. Science writer Phil Plait’s worst nightmare came true. The Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate. What can we expect to happen? In Plait’s words, the Republicans will “put a cohort of science-deniers [sic] into positions of authority,” which “quite literally affects the future…
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H7N9: The Next Influenza Pandemic?
Where did this new H7N9 strain come from? Genetic analyses suggest that four different avian influenza viruses swapped genes in a process known as “reassortment.”