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Friends of the Earth: 'Vaccine Apartheid' Crusaders Open A New War On Food
Friends of the Earth was famously started by an anti-nuclear activist who believed his employer, Sierra Club, did not hate science enough.You read that right. Sierra Club, founded by a rabid eugenicis...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
Life Sciences
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Why Both Stimulating And Blocking GLP-1R Helps People Lose Weight
Understanding which brain circuits respond to weight loss medications and how they behave could lead to better weight loss with fewer side effects. A new study (in mice, so only EXPLORATORY) found tha...
Medicine
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Eggs From Midwest Poultry Services Recalled Due To Salmonella
About 1.6 million cage-free eggs from Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. sold in Kroger and Brookshire Grocery stores, along with smaller boutique retailers, have been recalled due to Salmonella enteritid...
Physical Sciences
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Science Made Ice Cream Better - And For Some, That's Worse
Nostalgia says things were always better when you were a child. Sometimes that is objectively true. McDonald's french fries were better, for example, before shoddy epidemiology and progressive an...
Social Sciences
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Music Salons Of The 1800s Are Still With Us Today
Why have public displays of piano playing become so compelling? At railway stations, shopping centres and airports, an instrument usually associated with concert halls bursts into everyday life. In th...
