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Fellow hominids! You wanna know HOW you lost your tails some 20 million of years ago? In brief, this piece of DNA called an "Alu" jumped around the genome and inserted itself into TBXT, a gene controlling tail length, and voila! THAT curly appendix was...
by wagthedot
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 11:40 AM PDT
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Population: The Core Issue I have been talking about the root cause of climate change since 1995: population growth. We just reached 8 billion people and we increase by 80 million people a year. Anyone who is serious about talking about climate change...
by spicey
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on Mon Nov 28, 2022 at 07:35 PM PST
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Recently I made a trip to a small town where I used to live. �This town in about 30 miles east of Kansas City, MO and the highway runs along the Missouri River. �Forty years has passed since I ...
by nailkeg
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on Fri Sep 02, 2022 at 05:57 AM PDT
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Let’s pause. Reflect on our humanity. The devastation of COVID. Because when we’re done reflecting, we put politics aside and embrace, from our hearts, the dignity, the humanity, the love. This is the only way to win. Love and life over death and...
by smartcookienyc
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on Sun Sep 12, 2021 at 09:23 AM PDT
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Yes, that’s hand holding in the title photo. We’ll do that again soon, most likely. Funny how things change sometimes though. The mean level of expertise in hand sanitation has risen dramatically, if nothing else. My least worst guess is that people...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Mar 15, 2020 at 03:00 PM PDT
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A musical interlude from the Kyoto Tachibana SHS Band putting on a display of marching music and street choreography, including having to work around a passing train. How they get a sound like that while pulling moves like that is beyond amazing. It’s...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jan 17, 2020 at 07:49 PM PST
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The game of dividing only works if others deemed lesser is followed like power move to enforce a belief that you are better or more than “them” and instead we are all created equal and a reason we are all here. Everyone has a reason to be here living...
by iiwdpn
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on Tue Oct 29, 2019 at 01:38 PM PDT
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They sold us false choices. They keep us in a mode where we ask the wrong questions when demanding what we want. And because of that reality, we allowed them to write our laws to serve capital, business interests, first - humans be damned.
This type...
by Egberto Willies
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on Sat Jun 01, 2019 at 05:50 PM PDT
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You know, it’s curious.
There are people who follow their sports teams religiously. They know stats, player bios, and the schedule backwards and forwards. Some bring the same level of dedication to their favorite bands, a tv show, a movie.
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by xaxnar
21 comments
on Thu Oct 18, 2018 at 05:49 PM PDT
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Via the BBC, something to break from the depressing news of humans being horrible.
Photographs of a Wisconsin retiree cat-napping with his feline friends have gone viral - melting hearts online and leaving a shelter inundated with well-wishes and...
by xaxnar
41 comments
on Sun Sep 23, 2018 at 07:52 AM PDT
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Darned humans! I haz to do everythink ...
by Gwennedd
109 comments
on Sun Feb 04, 2018 at 07:00 PM PST
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An ancient jawbone from a cave in Israel shows humans may have left Africa much earlier than thought Humans may have ventured from Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought based on the age of a jawbone—complete with preserved teeth—found in a cave in Israel, researchers announced Thursday.
The fossil, found on the western slope...
by CraigHunter
25 comments
on Thu Jan 25, 2018 at 12:55 PM PST
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Ugh. I HATE this cold. For the last two weeks or so, here in metro-Detroit, we’ve been below (way below) our usual temps for this time of year. I think in the past 2 weeks we’ve hit 20 for a high once, all the other temps for highs have either been in...
by BFSkinner
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on Sat Jan 06, 2018 at 02:03 AM PST
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In these bizzare and dangerous new days, I feel a glimmer of hope that warms even the coldest, chaotic, cruel midnight. It is a small thing. Such a tiny, nearly unnoticed thing.
When he raves from his foam-mouthed, slobber soaked twitter feed...
by CNAinNC
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on Thu Jan 04, 2018 at 06:05 PM PST
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Humans are evolving. It is not something we can see by physical attributes, nor is it in any particular part of the Globe. We have done this before as a species over the thousands of years and in many senses are NOT like our ancestors. We can look at...
by Rhosebard
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on Sat Dec 02, 2017 at 03:04 PM PST
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Oh this is hysterical. A New York Times opinion piece provides us with a template for a public apology next time we get caught doing something, having done something, being taped by Putin doing something, being taped by our neighbor, accused of having...
by Colorado Blue
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on Sat Nov 25, 2017 at 07:21 PM PST
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This is a little slideshow (it times out at 3:25) inspired and accompanied by Loudon Wainwright III's "Me and My Friend the Cat" (from his Album II). It's really about people (especially men) and their relationship to felines. However, while it isn't...
by Passage2Truth
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on Tue Jul 18, 2017 at 06:02 PM PDT
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About ten years ago it was announced a Mosque would be built close to me. It was around the time there was all those people protesting the ill-named 9/11 Mosque, which we all know was really a community center where you could also pray if you wished...
by webranding
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on Tue Feb 07, 2017 at 09:50 AM PST
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A universal principle that connects all humans, found in the liturgy of all the world’s great religions from time immemorial, is the principle of treating others as we would want to be treated. The embodiment of this principle is found in the...
by Marina Asbury
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on Sun Dec 18, 2016 at 02:21 PM PST
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Orangutans are one of our closest relatives. We share 97 percent of the same genetic code in our DNAs as our primate cousins. New research has been done that claims that orangutans have been able to exhibit speech skills never before believed possible....
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Aug 05, 2016 at 12:23 PM PDT
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