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Trump is being very weird — Once again the right-wing religious deliver a stream of utterly bizarre and truly weird claims and declarations during the last week. Each and every week it is like this, and no doubt it will continue to be like this. This spotlight is not a criticism of people for being religious, […]

Weird Religious News – Holding the nation Hostage for a fantasy

This entry was posted in religion weird on January 20, 2019 by Dave

health threats — You have no doubt seen that WHO (World Health Organization) have published a list of the top 10 health threats that we face in 2019. The alpha source is this WHO listing here, let’s take a look. Ten threats to global health in 2019 Their publication of this list is […]

What are the top 10 Health Threats for 2019

This entry was posted in Medicine People society and tagged anti-vax health threat vaccines who on January 19, 2019 by Dave

insect ecosystem — The Guardian has an article that highlights the collapsing rainforest ecosystem within Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest. You can find the article here … Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished “We knew that something was amiss in the first […]

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

This entry was posted in biology Climate Change environment science and tagged ecosystem insect Luquillo Puerto Rico rainforest on January 18, 2019 by Dave

ocean warming — To answer this question all we need do is to stick a global thermometer into the ocean and measure what is going on. Easy right? Actually yes it really is like that. There exists a vast network of roughly 3,800 Argo floats scattered right around the planet. Each individual one […]

How fast are the oceans warming?

This entry was posted in Climate Change study and tagged argo ocean oceans warming on January 17, 2019 by Dave

cancer — The quick summary is that this is a good news story, the number of people dying of cancer each and every year is declining. We know this because each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cases and deaths that will occur in the United States and […]

What do the The Latest Cancer Statistics tell us?

This entry was posted in biology Health humans Medicine science and tagged cancer statistics on January 16, 2019 by Dave

shutdown — Nature and also Scientific American have published the same article that throws a spotlight upon some of the ways that the Shutdown is impacting science. The impact is quite real because the shutdown rather obviously impacts federally funded NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Additionally all grant processing by […]

Shutdown: The Impact upon science

This entry was posted in politics science and tagged science shutdown on January 15, 2019 by Dave