Open Letter to Bayer CropScience by Rosemary Mason “This charming company operated a factory and camp at Auschwitz during the WW2. The UK and US governments are now allowing it to control global farming methods,…
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The newly elected President of Costa Rica, one of the world’s youngest heads of state, 38-year-old former journalist Carlos Alvarado, has vowed to fully decarbonise the country’s economy and makes it the first carbon-neutral nation…
While we have yet to figure out how to travel by warp drive, we have found other ways for spacecraft to propel themselves at mind-boggling speeds across vast distances of outer space. Ion drives, for…
In March 2012 the Russian defense minister Anatoli Serdjukov said: “The development of weaponry based on new physics principles; direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons, psychotronic weapons, etc., is part of the state…
Low-protein high-carbohydrate diets may be the key to a long life and a healthy brain, according to study using mice at the University of Sydney. The research from the Charles Perkins Centre, published on Wednesday in…
The US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, AP reports President Donald Trump saying. He cited Russia’s alleged treaty violations, while at the same time vowing to “develop the…
The most powerful storm in the US in nearly 50 years. Hurricane Michael, the most powerful storm the US has seen in nearly 50 years, is moving through the Florida Panhandle, ripping apart homes and…
Professor Noam Chomsky at St. Olaf College – May 4th 2018 A detailed but depressing summary of where Professor Chomsky thinks we are with respect to the threat of nuclear war and the collapse of…
This is terrible. Exposure to the notorious pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) during pregnancy could raise the risk of a child developing autism. The agent was famously criticised for its environmental impacts in the 1960s, and has…
Scientists recently published an analysis of how humans affect evolution, and why we should care In biology, evolution is how populations change over time from their common ancestor. This process has been happening on Earth…
