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We all know somebody who avoids meat. These schools of thought suggest those people are onto something. By Scotty Hendricks – Cute piglets, or bacon seeds depending on your point of view. Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images. …
Most people see weeds as a problem. But one farmer has found they can help make dry, damaged land lush again – not to mention absorb carbon from the atmosphere. By Georgina Kenyon – More than 60 years ago, when he was a …
By Michael Irving – A honeybee with a parasitic Varroa mite attached to its back. Alex Wild / University of Texas at Austin. – The world is losing huge numbers of honeybees to colony collapse disorder (CCD), which has devastating implications for global ecosystems …
How a killer flu spread from western Kansas to the world. By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, February 19, 2018 – Ground Zero in one of the world’s deadliest influenza pandemics started quietly, inconspicuously. It was winter, 100 years ago. And it was …
By Anthony Wood – An image showing an active region of the Sun, taken in July 2017 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA. – A solar super-storm capable of seriously disrupting modern day technology has erupted from our Sun on average …
Tunis is bursting with the creative energy of a generation taking full advantage of its newfound freedom of expression and fervor for preserving its heritage in unexpected ways. – By Erin Clare Brown – The wait for admission to the Colosseum was approximately …
By Mike Hanlon – Coachbuilt survivors from the Art Deco era. Artcurial, Bonhams & RM-Sotheby’s. – The automotive heritage industry relocates across the Atlantic Ocean this week, as Paris prepares to become the center of the automotive world once more with the staging of …
By Loz Blain – A single 3D printed, personalized wheel nut per wheel could prevent wheel theft. Ford. – Ford seems to believe theft of fancy alloy wheels is on the rise thanks to improved security systems that make it harder to steal whole …
Knocking on wood may be a holdover from the pagan days of Europe, when tree spirits were believed to bring luck. Saiful bahri 46/Shutterstock.com. – By Rosemary V. Hathaway, Associate Professor of English, West Virginia University – Ever said something like, “I’ve never …
This long opinion piece is filled with wild speculation that is intended to induce unjustified anxiety in a dietary choice that is rightly increasing in popularity. Dr. Josh Cullimore, Jan 30, 2020 – The BBC’s recent opinion piece is filled with wild speculation …
