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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 07:02 PM PDT
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I honestly don’t remember when or how I found out how human reproduction works. By the time my mother made my father have “The Talk” with me — because that is how that dynamic generally works, errr, I’ve been told — he asked me if I knew how that went...
by skralyx
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM PST
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Commentary: African American Scientists, Explorers and Inventors By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Theodore Roosevelt Mason � "T. R. M. "� Howard � (March 4, 1908 – May 1, 1976) was a ...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Adam Smith told me the invisible hand would protect me. Health insurance companies would enter the competitive marketplace and I would be offered choices. Consumer choice within the market would keep premiums low and services easily obtained. If I felt...
by davelovell
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 05:45 AM PDT
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More than 500 million years ago, the three living groups of chordates — the ones with backbonish structures — went our separate ways. These are the cephalochordates (lancelets), the tunicates (sea squirts, salps, and some others), and the vertebrates....
by skralyx
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 09:11 PM PDT
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We’ve been trying to mount an effective response to Alzheimer’s disease for about a century now, but unfortunately we haven’t made a whole lot of progress in understanding it, let alone curing it. But a study whose very nature meant it would take...
by skralyx
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on Tue May 16, 2023 at 07:34 PM PDT
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An entire genome is made from scratch to support a new genetic code; the result is a living organism Every living organism on Earth uses pretty much the same genetic code. CCC means proline, GTA means valine, and so on for every possible triplet (codon) of DNA. All of us Earthly organisms read them the same way. If you put a gene from a tomato, a...
by skralyx
175 comments
on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 10:26 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest -�Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Oct 29, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Oct 23, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution". A very...
by AKALib
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on Mon Oct 03, 2022 at 06:04 AM PDT
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📌 from TheConversation Although voters age 18-29 have historically been the least likely age-cohort to vote, 78% of them favor legal abortion and 69% disapprove of Dobbs, compared to roughly 62% of Americans generally (according to Pew). This...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jul 16, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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“Race is the child of racism, not the father.“ -TA-NEHISI COATES Recently, I wrote a diary about Ron Johnson (Asshole, Wis), in which he gave air time to rabid anti-vaxxer doctors and had the temerity to act like it was an official hearing. I won’t...
by Kappyhour
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on Fri Jan 28, 2022 at 03:00 AM PST
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Tails are common in the animal kingdom, among fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Each species that has one uses it in different ways to help it survive. Fish use their tails for swimming. Among land animals, a tail is often used for balance...
by gizmo59
33 comments
on Thu Sep 23, 2021 at 07:00 PM PDT
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A growing number of cancers and genetic disorders are having their cover blown. We’re learning more and more about their root causes. We know — in principle — how to correct many of them, but we’re still behind in the delivery of specific therapies....
by skralyx
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on Wed Aug 25, 2021 at 09:39 PM PDT
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OK, you just don’t see results like this. A tripling of grain yield in the greenhouse? Translating to a 50% increase out in the field, for real? Are you kidding me? Something profound has been hit upon here. Not only is it a jaw-dropping result, but it...
by skralyx
297 comments
on Fri Jul 30, 2021 at 09:41 PM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. If you seek evidence of our...
by dratler
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on Tue Jun 08, 2021 at 02:26 PM PDT
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The domesticated breed of rabbit called sauteur d’Alfort doesn’t hop. �When it wants to move quickly, it stands on its front paws and walks using them exclusively. �This weird mode of conveyance ...
by gizmo59
16 comments
on Thu Mar 25, 2021 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Have you ever been sure that you were being watched? Do you wake up at the time you’re supposed to without having to set your alarm? Can you tell when a Republican is lying? (OK, that last one is too easy.) We humans have...
by skralyx
38 comments
on Sat Mar 06, 2021 at 07:40 PM PST
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Scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret from the genes of an animal named Willa that had died over thirty years ago. After Willa died, her remains were frozen and sent from Wyoming to San Diego Zoo Global that maintains a...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Feb 19, 2021 at 12:50 AM PST
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The limitations on the conditions of our lives and the form of our bodies are ultimately dictated by our genes, our DNA. Without as-yet untried genetic modification, humans can’t breath underwater, or fly, without some kind of technological...
by gizmo59
16 comments
on Sat Jan 02, 2021 at 07:07 PM PST
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