A genetically modified banana, boosted to have higher levels of alpha and beta carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A, has the best backer imaginable - The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation.It also has a big obstacle: it is really easy to scare people who don't understand the promise of biology, and fear and doubt are the specialties of anti-science groups who have consistently sought to...
read moreYou might think that with Iraq collapsing and Russia and China preparing for giant land grabs, our foreign policy would consist of more than 'global warming stinks' and 'you other countries should have nicer LGBT policies'. If so, there is good news, the State Department is now also criticizing mislabeled international seafood. read...
read more"One approach to this hallucination problem is to consider the possibility of a demonic world", writes an article in Springer-published
read moreI have no idea what is happening here but I am linking to it because...I don't know why.Weird Al Yankovic as Isaac Newton takes on someone dressed as Bill Nye in an epic rap battle about science.An easy win, right? Bill Nye couldn't even figure out how to take down Ken Ham, after all. Well, in true WWE wrestling style, Neil Tyson comes in at the end and tags up for Nye. Then it's on, baby.Who...
read moreIn the 1830s, jails were an all-purpose solution for a lot of issues. Inmates lived in squalor and people truly did not want to be there so there was a lot less crime. The downside was that nobody really cared about the people who did not belong there, like those with 'retardation' who had been abandoned, or people who were mentally ill but not criminals. read...
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