Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Naked mole rats are very cool, but they may not be immune to cancers

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Naked mole rats are curious things, and undeniably cool. With their hairless, wrinkly bodies, oversized teeth and tiny eyes, they have been ...

The inexplicable (and increasing) popularity of Fox News

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Donald Trump may be doing badly in the polls at the moment (and in every other way, come to think of it), but don't count him out, if f...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

We know what leads to new COVID spikes, so why relax airline restrictions?

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Many countries that thought they had beaten the pandemic virus are frantically backtracking at the moment. Most of the new outbreaks have re...

This is what the abolition of the police might look like

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Getting rid of the police force, which is now the goal of many of the more radical defunders is probably not going to work. For evidence, y...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Where did all the monarchs go? (again!)

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It's not so long ago - September 2019, just nine months ago - that I was writing about how the populations of monarch butterflies were s...

American anti-mask protests bemuse the rest of the world

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As Texas, Florida, Arizona and some other largely Republican, southern states that have seen huge spikes in COVID-19 cases since relaxing lo...

Media reporting of assault case unconsciously stirs anti-police sentiment

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The language being used around the recent sentencing of an off-duty Toronto area police officer for the assault on Black man Dafonte Miller ...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Politicians take note, K-pop is a political force to be reckoned with

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K-pop fans, including the formidable worldwide BTS Army who follow established Korean sensations BTS, have been turning more and more politi...