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The Night Watch
Fri Aug 12 16:22:39 2016 - permalink -This is an essay that a very small subset of the population will find extremely funny, and the rest won't understand.
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https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch.pdf
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HPV Sharply Reduced in Teenage Girls Following Vaccine, Study Says - The New York Times
Sun Mar 6 22:58:30 2016 - permalink -I remember the fierce opposition to this ten years ago here in Texas. It was mind-boggling.
On one hand you have religious masses who were against the vaccine thinking vaccinated teenagers would become more promiscuous.
On the other hand, you have the medical community advocating for this vaccine.
The results: A 64% drop of cancer in girls age 14 to 19. And it isn't better due to lower than hoped for vaccination rates (see the one hand, above).
The lesson: Listen to the scientists who actually know what they're talking about.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/health/vaccine-has-sharply-reduced-hpv-in-teenage-girls-study-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right - The New York Times
Thu Feb 11 10:48:13 2016 - permalink -Congratulations to mankind for experimentally discovering what was mathematically discovered 100 years ago. We should all be proud. I thought the video on this article was very well made.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
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Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change - The New York Times
Thu Jun 18 11:14:18 2015 - permalink -It's worrying that the Pope himself is better aligned with mainstream scientific thinking than a large percentage of the US population and its politicians.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/world/europe/pope-francis-in-sweeping-encyclical-calls-for-swift-action-on-climate-change.html
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Free Divers Are Rewriting the Physiology of the Body—Underwater
Sun Mar 29 11:15:36 2015 - permalink -This is very interesting and makes me feel an urge to go underwater and measure my heart rate.
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http://nautil.us/issue/22/slow/the-impossible-physiology-of-the-free-diver
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The Human Bot Fly on Vimeo
Wed Jan 14 10:15:13 2015 - permalink -It is imperative with anyone interested in animals to watch this. The whole thing.
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http://vimeo.com/116518067
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Evidence of sexism in science isn't enough to convince men on the internet that there's a problem, study says | The Verge
Sat Jan 10 12:37:02 2015 - permalink -"On the internet, evidence doesn't always matter — and now there's evidence for that."
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/9/7520313/sexism-commenters-science-men-evidence-internet-stem
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Measles Is Spreading In Our Largest Cities Because People Aren't Vaccinating Their Kids | ThinkProgress
Sat Mar 15 08:22:20 2014 - permalink -The fact that things like this are happening in the USA is truly hard to believe and understand for foreigners.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/14/3408461/measles-outbreaks-cities-vaccination/
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One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows - chicagotribune.com
Mon Dec 30 21:12:51 2013 - permalink -It's astonishing that a full third of the richest nation in the world choose to "reject" one of the most widely agreed upon scientific theories in biology. Horrendously backwards.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/sns-rt-us-usa-poll-evolution-20131230,0,3398788.story
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New NASA Spacesuit Looks like Buzz Lightyear's
Fri Dec 21 09:45:46 2012 - permalink -The new spacesuit looks great, not only because it reminds me of Buzz Lightyear. Astronauts enter it through a hatch in the back. This is not as innovative as some may think: Although not mentioned in the article, Russian Cosmonaut spacesuits have used that idea since the beginning of the Cold War.
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http://www.space.com/19003-nasa-z1-future-spacesuit.html