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12 10, 2016

Kudos to our modernity (Barack Obama, Wired and Weekly Address): UPDATED

By |2016-11-02T11:52:03-04:00October 12th, 2016|2016, education, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Politics, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Kudos to our modernity: how science continues to transform our lives for the better, to the point that now is the greatest time in history to be alive. From the editorial: This kind of progress hasn’t happened on its own. It happened because people organized and voted for better prospects; because leaders enacted smart, forward-­looking policies; [...]

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4 10, 2016

The 17th-C. Plague in London: Now We Know (Nicole Staybridge, BBC)

By |2016-10-03T17:01:33-04:00October 4th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, Literature, Medicine, News, October|0 Comments

The 17th-C. plague in London: now we know. How DNA (and Daniel Defoe) reveal the killer bacteria's identity in one of history's longest cold cases. From the article: Testing in Germany confirmed the presence of DNA from the Yersinia pestis bacterium - the agent that causes bubonic plague - rather than another pathogen. Some authors have previously questioned the [...]

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