Posted on Jul 20, 2014 | Comments Off on The Plant That Saved Us From Runaway Greenhouse Gases In The Past May Do It Again
55 million years ago when the Earth was in a near-runaway climate state, dangerously overheated by greenhouse gases, the Arctic Ocean was a large lake connected to the greater oceans by the Turgay Sea.Then 50 million years ago, the channel was blocked and that body of water suffered from a lack of exchange with outside waters and became
a hot lake. But its waters were also then loaded with...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2014 | Comments Off on The Food Babe Took Down Her Goofy Microwave Oven Post – Science Win
Vani Hari. The Food Babe hates science so you don't have to. Credit: Food Babe LLCVani Hari, the self-styled Food Babe and chief science expert at Food Babe LLC, has become a celebrity with mainstream media TV because she is thin and pretty and says things with a lot of earnest belief. Sometimes she is more kooky than others, like when she insisted she never uses a microwave oven because no...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2014 | Comments Off on Why The Amazon Began To Flow Backward
Millions of years ago, the rivers flowing westward across northern Brazil reversed course and began to flow toward the Atlantic. Thus the mighty Amazon was born. Some have suggested that the about-face was triggered by gradual changes in the flow of hot, viscous rock deep beneath the South American continent. But new computer models hint that the U-turn resulted from more familiar geological...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Tea Party Supports Segregation -Sociologists
It’s not really a surprise to anyone that the social sciences in American academia skew far out of the political mainstream, and so even less of a surprise that sociologists are blasting their polar opposites on the right, who call themselves part of the “Tea Party” movement.
But the level of partisan spin in a pre-primary American Sociological Review paper is surprising even...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Vegan Cheese – No Milk, Human DNA Instead
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At a secret enclave in the San Francisco metropolitan area, synthetic biologists and DIYBio tinkerers have been hacking nature up to fix the one thing about the vegan diet that would be difficult for many Americans: going without cheese.iGEM - the 10th international Genetically Engineered Machine competition - is tackling expressing casein proteins in yeast to make cheese. Not a cheese...
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