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Seance Spiritualism Of The Victorian Era Makes A 2020s Comeback
Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to directly contact the deceased.
The Conversation Sat, 08/01/2026 - 12:49 Categories TechnologyData Centers Are Created Right Where Environmentalists Want Them To Be
A populist campaign has built up around data centers and their impact on rural areas but, like with claims that natural gas and coffee cause cancer, they are lawyer-driven rather than scientific.
Hank Campbell Sat, 08/01/2026 - 11:24 Categories TechnologyHospitals Should Stop Doing 3 Things To New Moms About Breastfeeding
In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food coloring.
Hank Campbell Sat, 08/01/2026 - 08:48 Categories Public HealthYou Inherited Some Of Your DNA From Ghosts
We contain evidence of biological ghosts we know nothing about. They only haunt our DNA.
News Account Fri, 07/31/2026 - 14:58 Categories EvolutionDoes Social Inequality Make Women Exercise Less?
A longitudinal study of Black, Mixed, Asian, and Indigenous women determined that lower levels of education and other social inequality keeps them from exercising as much as white people.
News Account Fri, 07/31/2026 - 14:24 Categories AnthropologyAlignment Through World Understanding
Recent reports have shown that advanced AI agents developed by OpenAI and Anthropic can escape their evaluation sandboxes and interact with real-world systems when given sufficiently capable cyber tools.
Tommaso Dorigo Fri, 07/31/2026 - 06:07 Categories TechnologyIn 1900, The Ladies Home Journal Made Predictions That Put Nostradamus To Shame
In December of 1900, a civil engineer named John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. in The Ladies Home Journal wrote “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” and his predictions put most futurists to shame.
Hank Campbell Thu, 07/30/2026 - 19:51 Categories Science History44 Nysa - An Asteroid Now With Its Own Moon
Asteroid (44) Nysa, discovered in 1857 by astronomer Hermann Goldschmidt, has gotten a lot of study in the last 170 years but a recent analysis of data reveals it has its own moon.
News Account Wed, 07/29/2026 - 20:26 Categories SpaceEzplaz: Freeze-Dried Plasma Gets FDA Approval
Vascular Solutions, LLC, has been given U.S. Food and Drug Authority authorization for its Ezplaz Freeze Dried Plasma for transfusion in adults.
News Account Wed, 07/29/2026 - 12:30 Categories TechnologyWarning: Cannibalism Will Turn You Into A Zombie Russian Nesting Doll
Humans are calorically dense enough that it is no surprise that some ancient cultures engaged in cannibalism - or even more modern people in the right circumstances.(1) Yet it is also taboo. In Christopher Nolan's recent version of The Odyssey, cannibals appear twice.
Hank Campbell Wed, 07/29/2026 - 11:03 Categories AnthropologyPROTEXI Cancer Vaccine Platform Based On SARS-CoV-2 Immune Memory
A new cancer vaccine platform works by enhancing the ability of the immune system to recognize cancer by leveraging anti-viral memories it already has - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst outbreak of the last 70 years.
News Account Tue, 07/28/2026 - 11:41 Categories Cancer ResearchBeatrix Potter, Naturalist
The Tale of Peter Rabbit author illustrator got her start in science. Everything except astronomy. She had her limits.
The Conversation Tue, 07/28/2026 - 10:53 Categories AnthropologyIs Sparkling Water Bad For Your Teeth?
Sparkling water this decade is like baby formula of the 2010s; the target of a strange culture war that claims it has evidence of a public health crisis.
News Account Mon, 07/27/2026 - 18:22 Categories Public HealthWhy Both Stimulating And Blocking GLP-1R Helps People Lose Weight
Understanding which brain circuits respond to weight loss medications and how they behave could lead to better weight loss with fewer side effects.
News Account Fri, 07/24/2026 - 18:04 Categories NeuroscienceHow Can Scientists Claim Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all? For many years, scientists could answer that question only in general terms.
The Conversation Fri, 07/24/2026 - 13:03 Categories AtmosphericMusic Salons Of The 1800s Are Still With Us Today
Why have public displays of piano playing become so compelling? At railway stations, shopping centres and airports, an instrument usually associated with concert halls bursts into everyday life.
The Conversation Fri, 07/24/2026 - 12:52 Categories PsychologyThe Lost Roman Legion Of China
In 53 B.C., a member of Rome's First Triumverate, Marcus Licinius Crassus, wanted to show himself the equal of fellow rulers Caesar And Pompey.
Hank Campbell Thu, 07/23/2026 - 04:28 Categories AnthropologyFriends of the Earth: 'Vaccine Apartheid' Crusaders Open A New War On Food
Friends of the Earth was famously started by an anti-nuclear activist who felt like his employer, Sierra Club, did not hate science enough. You read that right. Sierra Club, founded by a rabid eugenicist, was too soft on science for David Brower.
Hank Campbell Wed, 07/22/2026 - 10:39 Categories TechnologyHalf Of Americans Should Be On Statins According To New Guidelines
The good news for Americans is that wages have outpaced costs since the Clinton years.
Hank Campbell Tue, 07/21/2026 - 12:53 Categories Public HealthToward Mode Collapse of Natural Language
Regression toward the mean is a simple phenomenon commonly described in Statistics 101 courses. If you measure a parameter describing some phenomenon, you will find that extreme measured values tend to be followed by less extreme ones.
Tommaso Dorigo Mon, 07/20/2026 - 09:07 Categories Science & Society