Michael Pollan On Mind-Altering Plants, A Second Pandemic Winter. December 10, 2021, Part 1

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‘Prehistoric Planet’ Defrosts Strange Animals Of The Ice Age

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the Ice Age.That’s the focus of the third season of the Apple TV series “Prehistoric ...  عرض المزيد

How Did Vaccine Policies Actually Change In 2025?

Since 1955, when Congress passed the Polio Vaccination Assistance Act, the federal government has been in the business of expanding access to vaccines. That is, until this year.2025 has been filled with almost daily news stories about federal agencies, under the direction of Heal ...  عرض المزيد

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How to Fight Bird Flu If It Becomes the Next Human Pandemic (Part 3)
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Creating a bird flu vaccine requires several layers of bioprotective clothing and typically a whole lot of eggs. H5N1 avian influenza infections have gone from flocks of chickens to herds of cattle and humans. Scientists at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute are taking their ...  عرض المزيد

What does caffeine do to our bodies?
BBC Inside Science

Sweet, caffeinated energy drinks are in the headlines again as the UK Government says it wants to ban under 16s from buying them. Some can contain the equivalent caffeine as 2 to 4 espressos. James Betts, Professor of Metabolic Physiology at the University of Bath, explains the s ...  عرض المزيد

CDC Vaccine Panel Fired by RFK, Jr., Oceans Grow More Acidic, and Pangolins Threatened by Hunting
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has fired the experts on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, sparking concern among public health officials. Ocean acidification has crossed a critical threshold, posing serious risks to marine life around the globe. An ...  عرض المزيد

Microbes Are Evolving to Eat Cleaning Supplies, and Whooping Cough Is Making a Comeback
Science Quickly

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed we’re in the solar maximum, a period of increased solar activity that could lead to more auroras. Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a fivefold surge in whooping cough cases ...  عرض المزيد