Stunt Science

Steve Wolf

For 20 years I have worked as a stunt scientist, creating stunts special-effects for movies, television shows and live events. I have created effects for movies with Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Whitney Houston. I also hosted a science special on the …

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We're So Wealthy Even Poor People Can Afford To Be Fat - Ask For Less Fatty Liver Disease For Christmas

The upside to greater wealth equality than at any point in human history is that nearly everyone can afford food for the first time ever. The famines of the 1980s have been effectively eliminated by…

Did Sucking Bone Marrow Give Humans Our Big Brains?

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, according to a paper in Current Anthropology.

Red And White Meats Are No Different When It Comes To Cholesterol

Eating too much meat is considered a risk factor for high cholesterol, which is a risk factor for hypertension, which is a risk factor for heart disease. Given all that statistical correlation, it's…

600 Plant Species Extinct (0.15%) NOT 'Bad News For All Species' - Scary And Clickbait BBC News - Annotated

This article is scaring people, with the usual “all going to be extinct soon ” hype that we have had so many stories about this year. It is running in many news sources. I am not singling out the BBC…