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“My first and ongoing feeling when I hear that Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter and Facebook and other social media is relief.

"Basically, yes, though it's more complicated than that. Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist at Oxford who thinks we operate, socially, with circles of different sizes.

So, how does this sound?  You are on your lunch hour- you have 30 minutes to kill……and you’ve got 3 kids at home in your two-bedroom apartment that are bouncing off the walls.  You really don’t want to go back to using condoms and your w

"Much like self-driving cars, the advocates of which hope their use will reduce car crashes, cultured meat is promoted by those who believe in its practical and ethical benefits.

“And no country may be better positioned to capitalize on climate change than Russia. Russia has the largest land mass by far of any northern nation.

The ACSH mission statement is very clear: "To publicly support evidence-based science and medicine and to debunk junk science and exaggerated health scares." Basically, we were founded in 1978 to combat misinformation, long before the advent of "f

Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue containing articles, with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

As I drove north, dark-gray haar stretched up, tumbled over, and rolled around: frozen wisps and bulges above broccoli-colored hills.  The fog was renewed by the cold water of the Firth of Tay and sustained by windless stillness.&nbs

Remember before COVID-19 when our concern was those other little pathogens, microbes. Despite all the attention on COVID-19 and vaccines, antibiotic resistance remains a problem.