Greece has reopened a major archaeological site on the island of Santorini. It was closed for over six years years after a roof collapsed, killing a tourist.The bronze-age town at Akrotiri reopened today, following completion of a new roof that shelters the entire site of the excavation from the...
read moreWe know that voting changes your brain a little - just reading that sentence changed your brain a little, so actions and behaviors certainly change us. But does voting change your descendants?Epigenetics is really a nascent field and that means there is a lot of interpretation. That also means people can try to make the case that politics is genetic. Which means partisan spinmeisters,...
read moreWith the passing of famed “60 Minutes” commentator Mike Wallace last week at age 93, his collective work is getting a new look, including a 1967 report on homosexuality. Is he getting slammed now due to political correctness? Was there truth to what he said, or was psychiatry composed of cranks following the latest social fads and making sweeping generalizations about people they...
read moreWhy would Stone Age man remove brains from skulls and put them on stakes? At the bottom of a pond? Why would Stone Age man carve a wooden fish?It's a science mystery.It’s unusual to find a stone burial mound this old. Swedish burial mounds did not become common until around 500 B.C., the Iron Age - its location at the bottom of a little pond is yet another...
read moreThe key air pollutants that combine to cause smog have dropped due to emissions regulations but baseline levels of ozone are continuing to creep up in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.Scientists from the University of British Columbia, along with state and environmental groups, are trying to figure out why average levels of ground-level ozone haven't dropped with emissions over the...
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