Goodbye A. Excelsus, Hello Again Brontosaurus?
A new analysis of the long-necked dinosaur family tree says Apatosaurus excelsus is oh so wrong and Brontosaurus is oh so right.Just like a hundred plus years ago. read...
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Flakka – Chemical Cousin Of Bath Salts Is Legal, Cheap And Dangerous
Flakka - "gravel" - is all the rage with amateur druggies in Florida and Texas and wherever else people who have watched a lot of "Breaking Bad" do home chemistry. It is made from alpha-PVP, which is a chemical cousin of cathinone, found in bath salts. read...
read moreCalifornia Government Is The Big Water Management Problem
It is raining in California as I write this but most of it will do little good. The rain is going to go to a gutter and the gutter will go to a stream and that will go to an ocean.Yes, much of the fresh water that California has runs into the Pacific Ocean. You might wonder why the Pacific Ocean needs so much, since 96 percent of Earth's water is already in oceans, but the oceans are not asking...
read moreFood Identity Turned Into Federal Standards Hampers Nutrition
We want to protect consumers from product misbranding and adulteration and so the Code of Federal Regulations, which govern 'standards of identity', was born in 1938. Yet what laws never account for is "innovation" and the modern environmental movement, with its food identity fetish, exploits that bureaucracy - for everything except organic food, anyway. Organic lobbyists control a...
read moreBurial Box, Talpiot Tomb Reignite Jesus Archeology Debate
Geochemical tests on a burial box found in a tomb in 1980 have renewed questions about whether Jesus Christ was buried there. If he was buried there, in a family grave, there was no resurrection, The ossuaries have names like “Jesus son of Joseph”, “James son of Joseph brother of Jesus” and “Mary”, which is so conveniently consistent with the New Testament it could be a George...
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