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Climate Change

Answers to Key Questions in the Case of Oregon’s Vanishing Republicans

Senate Republicans say the legislation would have a devastating effect on farmers, dairies and the states struggling logging industry, among others. More than that, Republicans say, the bill represents an existential threat to rural life, and they want the re…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Animal Protection

Puerarin prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by enriching Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiota of mice

Citation: Wang L, Wu Y, Zhuang L, Chen X, Min H, Song S, et al. (2019) Puerarin prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by enriching Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiota of mice. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218490. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.021849??? Read More

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Bees

Warmer temperatures advance flowering in a spring plant more strongly than emergence of two solitary spring bee species

Abstract Climate warming has the potential to disrupt plant-pollinator interactions or to increase competition of co-flowering plants for pollinators, due to species-specific phenological responses to temperature. However, studies focusing on the effect of t…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Will Iran get the North Korean treatment from Trump?

The Trump administration ratcheted up tensions with Iran last week, blaming the Islamic Republic for attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and for shooting down an unmanned American drone in what America claims were international waters. (Iran denied…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Julian Assange

7/20/19: LaborFest 2019: Press Freedoms & Whistleblowers | SF – FREE

7/20/19: LaborFest 2019: Press Freedoms & Whistleblowers | SF - FREE

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Cold War

How Bad Would Nuclear Winter Caused By A US-Russia Nuclear Exchange Be?

In this post, I quantify the severity of the nuclear winter we might expect to result from a nuclear war between the US and Russia (Guesstimate model here). Researchers who have studied nuclear winter estimate that a nuclear war that produced between 50 and …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Yellow Vests

This irrational self-deception is what prevents many economists from embracing a Green New Deal

Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth is an Illusion, talks to the Institute for New Economic Thinking about where we are today. Lynn Parramore: In 2018, you and your colleague Enno Schröder…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

In Andy Ruiz Jr.’s Hometown, Boxing And Border Patrol Are All Part Of The Scenery

IMPERIAL, Calif. On Andy Ruiz Jr. Day in Imperial, the temperature had already climbed past 90 degrees by 9 a.m. The cooler wind that had been blowing earlier in the morning had retreated back to the Laguna Mountains to the west, whose peaks were now shrouded…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Feudalism

A Fortress, Disguised as a Country

Morgarten, Switzerland Here, in 1315, a force of Swiss mountaineers ambushed an invading force of Austrian feudal knights who had come to reassert Hapsburg feudal rule over the rebellious Swiss. The burly Swiss farmers and woodsmen from the forest cantons Un…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Argo AI is investing $15 million into a self-driving car research center at CMU

Argo AI will invest $15 million over five years to create a center for autonomous vehicle research at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the latest efforts by the Ford-backed company to accelerate the development of self-driving cars. The center, Carnegie Me…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Answers to Key Questions in the Case of Oregon’s Vanishing Republicans

Puerarin prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by enriching Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiota of mice

Warmer temperatures advance flowering in a spring plant more strongly than emergence of two solitary spring bee species

Will Iran get the North Korean treatment from Trump?

7/20/19: LaborFest 2019: Press Freedoms & Whistleblowers | SF – FREE

How Bad Would Nuclear Winter Caused By A US-Russia Nuclear Exchange Be?

This irrational self-deception is what prevents many economists from embracing a Green New Deal

In Andy Ruiz Jr.’s Hometown, Boxing And Border Patrol Are All Part Of The Scenery

A Fortress, Disguised as a Country

Argo AI is investing $15 million into a self-driving car research center at CMU

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