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by vixen99 4y ago
Yes, and a truck load of environmental factors to mention just dioxins, pesticides, phthalates, heavy metals, temperature, air pollution (esp. ozone) and herbicides. Many others have been reported in the literature.
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by vixen99 4y ago
With a strong statement like that it would be helpful if you could provide an example or two that makes your point.
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by vixen99 4y ago
In many cases, these are invited speakers so compulsion doesn't come into it. How would you get to speak if you're not invited ? This list makes interesting reading. These are people "banned from speaking at universities in
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by vixen99 4y ago
That's the result of a survey, is it?
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by vixen99 4y ago
> Young people continuously move more to the left. And then to the right as they get older. A surprising number of British politicians on the right were Marxists in their youth.
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Analysis of nanoscale remnant seawater from the Devonian Period(sciencedirect.com)
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by vixen99 4y ago
Most of the article is paywalled.
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As energy prices explode, deforestation in Europe accelerates(wattsupwiththat.com)
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by vixen99 4y ago
Why second guess what the moderation panels come up with ? As yet we have no idea.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Even my very tattered vellum-bound copy of the writings of Seneca (in latin) dated 1643 (the year Isaac Newton was born) which I picked up for a few pence years ago is just about readable with the pages firmly attached to the spine. On the
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by vixen99 4y ago
An Israeli study reported here: https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/07/08/no-increase-myocarditi... [‘The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large Population-Base
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by vixen99 4y ago
It also amazes me that the government activists, those folk attending COP conferences, never suggest holding a video conference for COP as an example to us all. Instead an estimated 400 private jets have arrived in Egypt (where domestic cli
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by vixen99 4y ago
At least some connection with the following, surely? Years ago Scientific American had an Amateur Scientist column. This was sadly abandoned in 2001 apparently due to the lack of an appropriate contributor. Its projects are listed here. ht
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by vixen99 4y ago
Because he's not.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Amazing book. It's an extension of his earlier 'The Fabric of Reality'. There he makes the astonishing unambiguous claim (chapter 2) that 'Single particle interference experiments show us that the multiverse exists and t
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by vixen99 4y ago
From the Telegraph obituary: 'Kathleen Booth, who has died aged 100, co-designed of one of the world’s first operational computers and wrote two of the earliest books on computer design and programming; she was also credited with the i
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by vixen99 4y ago
A useful test for olive oil is its taste when swallowed. If it produces a hot sensation in the throat this is due apparently to oleocanthal, a major polyphenol in the oil. Oleocanthal has been cited in numerous publications as having anti-i
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by vixen99 4y ago
Maybe in your part of the world. But grant me that it would be dumb to pay twice as much for electricity as for gas to heat my home to the same temperature which is the case. Heat pumps? For huge numbers of poor people across the world thi
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by vixen99 4y ago
Nick Clegg is a former Liberal Democrat who became deputy Prime Minister in a coalition with the Conservative Party in 2010. Following this, his Liberal Democrat party lost 49 of its 57 seats at the next election. He subsequently got a job
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by vixen99 4y ago
The European Food Safety Panel disagrees. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa.... See conclusions: Specifically: "On the basis of the data available, the Panel concludes that a ca
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by vixen99 4y ago
Attributing attitudes with feelings of entitlement, money obsession and persecution complex to millions of people in either group surely demands some evidence. Does this exist in some reasonably objective survey or is it assumed that if you
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by vixen99 4y ago
As with Fred Sanger (chemistry) and John Bardeen (physics) who also won twice in the same category.
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by vixen99 4y ago
As you concede we shouldn't take away too many lessons from the Hadza unless we too hunt for our food with hand-made bows and arrows and forage for edible plants. Takes lots of calories to do that, calories which don't lie around
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by vixen99 4y ago
Nit pick. Fair point in some ways but it depends on your audience. If the latter consists primarily of folk with an extensive vocabulary that enables them to detect the nuance that might be intended by the use of a supposedly unusual word (
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by vixen99 4y ago
Yes. This is so important it's worth repetition. 'This is why we don't bomb Ukranian cities' is an untrue statement - among others. It isn't Western propaganda. As you put it 'Ukranian cities are absolutely bei
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by vixen99 4y ago
Unless I'm missing something I doubt there's anything unusual about the wood frog with respect to survival over winter. For varying periods in winter the temperature in Romania can reach -20 Celsius (-4 F) or even colder. Our adul
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by vixen99 4y ago
There's an issue here. 80% of the global sulfur supply comes from removal of sulfur from fossil fuels. Among countless other vital industrial uses without which life as we know it ceases, sulfur is used for making lithium batteries and
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by vixen99 4y ago
Writing gross summary statements like that is simple. Anyone can do it. Now how about backing up your claim ? What's not remotely informative about the following extracts? Or are they untrue? It's an opinion piece but there's
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by vixen99 4y ago
Maybe true over aeons but blatantly untrue in the shorter term which is what inevitably matters to us now while we're alive making that effort.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Expensive solution even so. In Romania (One of Europe's poorest countries) this month's price for a kilowatt is 57 cents (if you use > 300 kw per month on average). The UK price is about 36 pence per kw (41 cents).

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