19Sep 2024 by Post

The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

authoritarianism, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, demonization, dissenters, Donald Trump, fearmongering, free assembly, free speech, health, International Court of Justice, lockdowns, masks, media, Medicine, misinformation, national sovereignty, Nature (journal), pandemic treaty, pandemics, schools, shaming, technocracy, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Wesley Smith, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization
Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body? Source
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20May 2024 by Post

Phenology: The Science of Seasonal Adaptation

abiotic changes, Albert B. Phillimore, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, biotic changes, calendars, California poppy blooms, caterpillars, Chaco Canyon, cicada emergences, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Darwin’s Bluff, El Niño, Evolution, Farmer’s Almanac, foresight, genetic adaptation, herbaceous plants, Intelligent Design, Kirsty H. Macphie, La Niña, Life Sciences, locust plagues, moisture, mosquito swarms, pandemics, phenology, physiology, plants, PNAS, Robert Shedinger, sensors, Stonehenge, superblooms, temperate, temperature
No, not phrenology — phenology. It’s not pseudoscience, but a lesser-known branch of science that includes birds, bees, and trees. Source
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