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Soviet Well To Hell - How A Teacher Punked A Whole TV Network
In 1989, the communist dictatorship oddly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached the extent of a third giant hole in the Arctic Circle, Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3, where they'd been drill...
Earth Sciences
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Is Coastal Flooding Now Predictable?
A new paper posits that rather than being the random chaos theory colloquially known by things like the Butterfly Effect, recurrent coastal floods actually occur at very predictable times.The tides ha...
Life Sciences
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194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you. Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good ins...
Medicine
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ICE Crackdowns Saved Money On Healthcare In California
Since implementation of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare after President Obama, who signed it into law for his party, an unclear number of California doctors cap the number of patien...
Physical Sciences
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Flying With Gamma-Ray Counters: Another Test Or Two Of The Radiacode Zero
Yesterday I traveled all day, moving my family back to Lulea from Padova. The trip is long because there is no direct connection from Venice to Stockholm (Norwegian has one, but I prefer to avoid them...
Social Sciences
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'Let Me Begin By Saying There Is No Greater Feminist Than Me'
When a government official tells you something strange, like that they are really an ally as they prepare to put your feet to the fire, you should be concerned. History says the opposite is true.Befor...
