In 2009, President Barack Obama slightly eased restrictions on the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research that was first funded by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, but limited to specific lines. Using an executive order, Pres. Obama allowed for a few more lines to be created while still obeying President Clinton's Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which limited research on embryos. read...
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Doggerland, a low-lying landmass in the North Sea, could have been Atlantis just as easily as anything else might have been, and it may have been abandoned after being hit by a 15 foot high tsunami generated by a subsea landslide off the coast of Norway 8,200 years ago. During the last Ice Age, sea levels were much lower; at its maximum extent Doggerland connected Britain to mainland Europe....
read moreFood is interesting to me. It's essential, of course, but it's also a lot of cutting-edge science that people don't see. It's hard to imagine now that when I was a kid, Prof. Paul Ehrlich (and then later our current science czar, Dr. John holdren) were projecting that we would be having worldwide riots and mass starvation by now.Instead, while I was living on a small subsistence farm, American...
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