By Arindam Basu | – As most of the world tries to suppress the coronavirus spread, some countries are going it alone – trying to manage the pandemic through so-called “herd immunity”. Herd immunity means letting a large number of people catch a disease, and hence develop immunity to it, to stop the virus spreading. […]
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science
Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia’s Ecology Ever be the Same?
By Darren Evans | – The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of newspapers the world over. An estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 sq km) of land have burned since 1 July 2019. At least 28 people have died. And over a billion […]
What the Dinosaurs Teach us: Earth won’t Recover from Human-Caused Mass Extinction for 2 mn Years
By Paul Bown, Samantha Gibbs, and Sarah Alvarez | – Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Earth, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, ammonites, and many other species. The asteroid was equally devastating at a microscopic level, driving ocean plankton to near-extinction. This crippled the base of the marine food chain […]
No, Ben Shapiro, Science isn’t White
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In this clip via Twitter, Ben Shapiro, who is somehow touted as a serious thinker on the Right, alleges that the scientific method is peculiar to something he calls “the West.” He appears to think it consists of Greek empiricism mixed with what he terms a “Judeo-Christian” conviction that to […]
We are about to drive 1 million species to extinction w/out a Revolution in our relationship with Nature
The report reveals the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem function is much less on lands managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities
The Coming Great Satellite Space War between Nuclear-Armed India and Pakistan
In late March, India launched a rocket shooting down one of its satellites, proving it could preemptively “blind” the Pakistanis
A New Space Race? China First to Land on Far Side of Moon
The probe, Chang’e 4, is symbolic of the growth of the Chinese space program and the capabilities it has amassed
“Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!” Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War
Artificial intelligence, or AI, soon will play an ever-increasing role in military affairs
How the Trump Admin’s War on Science is also a War on Ethics
A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists accuses Trump’s Interior Department of “relentless attacks on science”
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