As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
2023年8月21日 · L ast year, the Biden administration announced an ambitious goal: enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes by 2030. The move would reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, and strengthen energy security. It would also help the United States — which was responsible for just 0.1 percent of the world’s offshore wind capacity last year — catch up with …
Evidence and Orthodontics: Does Your Child Really Need Braces?
2020年7月20日 · I enjoyed your article, Ms. Whitcomb. I found it very informative. Information on long term outcomes would have been a valuable addition to the material presented.
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
2024年3月6日 · 1. Fluoride blocks the absorption of iodine, so people living in the U.S. goiter belt are especially at risk of iodine deficient related diseases.
For Some Survivors, Polio Casts a Long Shadow - Undark Magazine
2023年1月2日 · I had polio at 8 yrs of age in summer of 1948. Paralyzed from neck down. Yeah long recoup; Sister Kenny method of rehab used. Ran track, ice scared, on cue basketball team in high school.
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Snip or Skip? The Complicated Debate Over Circumcision.
2024年1月1日 · Overall a fairly balanced and nuanced article on a topic usually treated with derision. If we were discussing bodily autonomy, consent, and medical justification in almost any other context, it would go without saying that surgery removing healthy tissue justified by shaky medical reasoning done without the patient’s express consent would be a no-go.
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
2022年12月12日 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought …
Down on the Body Farm: The Forensics of Decaying Corpses
2019年11月11日 · Western Carolina University’s Forensic Osteology Research Station, founded in 2007, was the second body farm facility. In addition to serving as a laboratory for studying human decay at an altitude of 2,271 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the center has provided a training ground for cadaver dogs that can detect human remains.
For Forest Blazes Grown Wilder, an Alternative: The ‘Good Fire’
2021年10月25日 · A forest fire may happen to a tree, but the reverse can also be true: A tree happens to a fire. A scientist would say that the Ponderosa pine, for instance, has adapted to fire: In other words, it has evolved to be especially cunning and seductive with the flames that help it survive.. This tree isn’t terribly picky about where it lives, populating mountains and valleys all …
The Scramble to Defuse the ‘Feral Swine Bomb’ - Undark Magazine
2020年9月14日 · Years ago, preventing feral pig populations hardly seemed worth the money, but today these animals are responsible for an estimated $2.5 billion worth of damage in the U.S. each year, mostly by mowing down farmers’ crops, as well as attacking calves, lambs, and pregnant livestock, and destroying native plants, animals, and precious habitats.