As if Getting Ebola Wasn't Bad Enough, Now There's Post-Ebola Syndrome (opens the source in a new tab)
The gift that keeps on giving. If it were contagious long after...
Science
Cousin Marriage Impacts Rule of Law and Proper Function of Institutions (opens the source in a new tab)
Brought to you by Steve Sailer, Yale University and the number 9
Today in Elon Musk (opens the source in a new tab)
100 square miles of solar panels will do it. Yawfle recommends Detroit
Most of Your DNA Is Junk (opens the source in a new tab)
Some more than others, perhaps. 75% is the new estimate.
Can Gut Microbes Encourage Altruism? (opens the source in a new tab)
Or can they encourage its opposite?
Is the Standard Model for Particle Physics Cracking? (opens the source in a new tab)
Perhaps, yes, but also not cracking the way they expected.
Let's Figure Out What It Would Take to Kill All Life on Earth (opens the source in a new tab)
Vesta-sized asteroid, or gamma ray burst. OR CLIMATE CHANGE.
Ravens Plot World Conquest (opens the source in a new tab)
Well, maybe not. But they do plan ahead.
Coffee, Already Awesome, Also Lowers Risk of Stroke and Heart Disease (opens the source in a new tab)
Coffee, red wine, chocolate, red meat, butter = health foods
Hyperloop Completes First Full-Up Systems Test (opens the source in a new tab)
Baby steps, but it looks increasingly real
Who Built Stonehenge? (opens the source in a new tab)
Not the dinosaurs. Good long read from EvolutionistX
Monster Solar Minimum Approaching? (opens the source in a new tab)
Cycle 24 at solar minimum levels three years early, for 12 year cycle
Syphilis, Genius, Madness and History (opens the source in a new tab)
Via Isegoria - several good links, and another book for my list
Visualizing Subatomic Particles (opens the source in a new tab)
Pretty pictures, good overview
Red Meat is Health Food (opens the source in a new tab)
Mangan looks at the evidence. I'd want to believe this regardless.
Gravitational Waves Might Be Just Noise (opens the source in a new tab)
LIGO has two sites - the signal is correlated - but so is the noise
Robert Recorde, Inventor of the Equals Sign (opens the source in a new tab)
Good read - had never heard of the man, though perhaps I should have
Incurable Gonorrhea Popping Up (opens the source in a new tab)
We might be nearing the end of the age of antibiotics
Cambrian Explosion of Robots (opens the source in a new tab)
Burger-making robots = Skynet ? At least it didn't spit on my burger
New Denisovan Fossil Found (opens the source in a new tab)
Only the fourth one found, this one from a young Denisovan girl