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Science communication, genetics, and evolutionary biology from a southern transplant in New England
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Scientists have found that a toddler who lived in Montana 12,800 years ago had a diet made up in large part of mammoth. The finding may offer a clue to how mammoths and other large North American mammals became extinct. Here's my story [gift link]: nyti.ms/4gjYsvf 🧪

submitted 85 days ago • 14 comments

New England graveyards are littered with reminders of why vaccines are good, in the form of graves of young children. This one reads Tryphena P. Daughter of Mr. Ebenezer & Mrs Sophia Blake died May 18 1814 Aged 11 months 15 days

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

submitted 99 days ago • 462 comments

either people specify what they mean when they say “elite” or the term is just meaningless pejorative. both parties are dominated by elites in any conventional sense of what that means! the question is: why are right-wing elites more palatable to voters than liberal ones?

submitted 110 days ago • 491 comments

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

submitted 110 days ago • 251 comments

Well worth reading. Many of the common narratives about the election aren't consistent with available evidence at the moment. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

"Compressing long-term gene evolution to laboratory time spans at scale ... would enable the systematic detection of additional structural and functional demands governing biology...& principles by which gene diversity was generated in the first place." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe

submitted 111 days ago • 386 comments

There are many reasons why so Americans voted for Trump & distrusted democratic establishment — reasons that can be analyzed, understood, appreciated — but it doesn’t change the fact these voters were uncoerced humans with moral agency and voting for Trump was a profound moral failure.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Great group of writers at Science Based Medicine. They have their work cut out for them. sciencebasedmedicine.org/some-data-on...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

submitted 112 days ago • 151 comments

Today’s Historic Front Page: November 6, 2024 theonion.com/todays-histo...

submitted 113 days ago • 192 comments

This is abysmal lol pca.st/episode/0746...

submitted 112 days ago • 64 comments