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The Scientific Fork In The Road: Queer Genomes or Catgirls

     The morality of genetic manipulation, particularly when it comes to creating embryos, is a hotly debated topic when it comes to the consideration of medical ethics. Now there is a debate about creating children who are genetically the offspring of … Continue reading

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Quick Takes – The More Things Stay The Same In Academia: Anti-Racist Rocks; Musical Privilege Checking; Queer Science

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: The madness of the few obfuscates the hard work of the … Continue reading

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Womb Transplants: The Good, The Bad & The Nekomimi

     There has been much development in creating artificial wombs, including human trials.   Such technologies could provide solutions to many a modern day problem. But artificial wombs are not the the only prenatal alternatives out there.   Womb transplants are … Continue reading

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Happy Pi Day

     Happy π Day everyone!      Demonstrating that innovative thinking can save you decades of time, energy, and sanity, here is an explanation of how Isaac Newton revolutionized the number π! Tweet

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Firing Line Friday: The Ozone Controversy

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      With all the “green” grift and rent seeking, not to mention the calls to grant central government absolute … Continue reading

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Bird Slaughtering Death Ray To Be Shut Down

     A powerful weapon of avian devastation, which for years now had slaughtered innocent birds, is likely going to be finally shut down. “What was once the world’s largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 … Continue reading

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Normalizing Pregnancy As A Disease

     Anti-natalism is ultimately anti-human. One shouldn’t belittle or deman women form whom having children wasn’t in the cards, those who outright declare that pregnancy is a disease are indeed obsessively nuts. Such is the case of the authors of this … Continue reading

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Will Genetically Engineered Interspecies Organ Transplants Get Us Closer To Genetically Engineered Catgirls?

     Science has advanced to the point where interspecies organ transplants are being used to save human lives via genetically engineered organs: “Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail several years … Continue reading

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12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 2)

     Explore the science of snowflakes with Professor Brian Cox.      Merry Christmas! Tweet

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Point Counterpoint: Super Humans Or Artificial Intelligence?

     A semi-posthumous book by the late Henry Kissinger (along with co-authors “former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie”) raises the question of dominance by artificial intelligence and the response that ought to be employed.      While … Continue reading

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