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Donald Steiny / June 6, 2015

A Message for the Anti-Vaccine Movement – YouTube

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Donald Steiny / June 18, 2015

Best Observational Evidence of First Generation Stars in the Universe | ESO

Of all the sad things for the people who think that the Earth is only about 10,000 years old, the saddest is that they miss stuff like this, seeing back ...

Donald Steiny / June 23, 2015

Caffeine acts through neuronal adenosine A2A receptors to prevent mood and memory dysfunction triggered by chronic stress

This abstract is technical and it may not be obvious what it is saying, but it is great news for coffee drinkers (and tea drinkers too). One of the neural ...

Donald Steiny / June 18, 2015

Catholics Divided Over Global Warming | Pew Research Center

It is interesting to see that the motivated reasoning that leads to ignoring the massive evidence that the climate is being changed by humans transcends even religion. I suppose that ...

Donald Steiny / June 9, 2015

Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: NASA releases detailed global climate change projections

NASA is releasing global climate change projections to help scientists and planners better understand local and global effects of hazards. Source: Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: NASA releases ...

Donald Steiny / February 13, 2016

Climate confusion among U.S. teachers | Science

It seems that part of the challenge teaching about global warming is that many science teachers are uninformed. Although more than 95% of active climate scientists attribute recent global warming ...

Donald Steiny / November 6, 2015

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet after local destabilization of the Amundsen Basin

Note that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not the same as East Antarctic. This paper is about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which is melting rapidly. Right now, on ...

Donald Steiny / February 22, 2016

Depression Successfully Treated With 24 Minutes Of Innovative Type of Therapy – PsyBlog

This is fascinating, using virtual reality to treat depression. I wonder if it could work the other way. Some people I know seem to relate to most everything in the ...

Donald Steiny / February 23, 2016

Dragonfly telescope shines a light on dark matter

This gets a bit farther along the path to making sense of “dark matter.” Sometimes a major discovery – like finding evidence to support the theory of dark matter – ...

Donald Steiny / July 22, 2015

Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. | WIRED

This might make a difference in our lives soon. SPINY GRASS AND SCRAGGLY PINES creep amid the arts-and-crafts buildings of the Asilomar Conference Grounds, 100 acres of dune where California’s ...