Science & Society
- Ocean Gate's Titan Submersible: A Suboptimal Shape and A Tragedy.
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M ost if not all deep submergence vehicles that take people to the deepest parts of the ocean have a spherical pressure hull, not a cylinder. There is a simple reason for this: symmetry. The spherical symmetry of these crafts ensures that the pressure and ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 22 2023 - 5:49pm
- No Uk Daily Mail, Humans and Dinosaurs DID NOT Live At The Same Time.
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T he UK Daily Mail published a story with the misleading headline “Humans DID live with dinosaurs…” The story then talks about placental mammals that coexisted with dinosaurs. This shows a lack of basic knowledge by the writer, the editors and anyone else ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 27 2023 - 12:36pm
- Climate Doomsday Narratives Are Working, Say Media Academics
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A decade ago surveys showed that Millennials were less concerned about environmental claims than Baby Boomers or Generation X. The reason was speculated to be environmental fatigue. Millennials saw that government recycling was only making China rich and A ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2023 - 5:31am
- Is Barbie Damaging The Body Image Of Girls?
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Launched in 1959, named after the inventor’s daughter Barbara, and owned by 99% of 3-10 year old girls in the USA, Barbie has been a popular request on young girls’ Christmas wish lists for 55 years. So, should we buy them? What are these toys teaching ou ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 20 2023 - 8:09pm
- Generational Labels Were Always Fake- But They Are Great Marketing
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Pew has announced they will no longer use 'generational labels' and instead use age cohorts. It makes sense demographically but it never made sense that anyone used them in the first place. When I was born, the Baby Boom was an event- a post-Wor ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 27 2023 - 11:36am
- Fact Checking Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'
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Unless you hate movies, you know this weekend was "Barbenheimer"- two highly regarded, very different films were on track to smash some records. And they did. "Barbie" did over $150 million while "Oppenheimer" did $80 million, ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 27 2023 - 7:17pm
- In 2023, Coming Out Is Still Complicated, And Not Just Because Of Straight Family Members
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With historically high levels of LGBTQ2+ visibility, hardly a TV show exists where no matter how small the character list, someone isn't a sexual minority, a new paper says that coming out can still mean drama- even from those inside the LGBTQ2+ commu ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 3 2023 - 10:09am
- Canadians Should Fund Transgender Surgery
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In the field of gender-affirming care for the LBGTQ+ community, there are drastic solutions- controversial if it involves those unable to grant real informed consent- but there are also therapeutic benefits to minimally invasive procedures, write a group i ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2023 - 10:13am
- Aspartame Doesn't Cause Cancer- IARC Simply Went From Bad To Worse
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Half a decade ago, France's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) tried to fight for its credibility in the face of a scientific onslaught against their latest epidemiology findings by actually lowering the "risk" of something. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2023 - 2:16pm
- No Ticking Tax Bomb Due To Aging Population: The Intergenerational Report Is Less Scary Than You’ve Heard
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What if nearly everything that’s been written about this month’s Intergenerational Report is wrong? I’ll explain. But first, here’s a sample of the headlines: “Young Australians at risk of a poorer future”, “Fewer workers to shoulder soaring income tax”, ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 4 2023 - 12:24pm