This study does not prove that people aren’t born that way. Of course there is no “gay gene.” That would make no evolutionary sense. It has to be a complex of them that, combined, cause it. Plus this seems to ignore pre-natal environment. There’s some evidence that this is a cause as well.
Speaking of which, hurricane forecasters are admitting they’re reaching the limits of being able to predict tracks, because (surprise!) hurricanes are complex non-linear chaotic systems.
This will drive the planetary-protection people nuts:
Whether the tardigrades survived is unknown—but Spivack said if they did, there is no risk of the creatures taking over the Moon as they would need to be revived by future humans that may find them.
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until they mutate and become our giant lunar tardigrade overlords.
An interesting overview, but I am aware of no serious plans for Virgin Galactic to get tourists to orbit any time, let alone in the early 2020s. Only Blue Origin and SpaceX offer that potential right now. https://t.co/Sew1biT1z3
And they repeatedly use the phrase “lunar soil.” In fact we just update Evoloterra this weekend to fix this ourselves.
There is no such thing as lunar "soil." Soil has an ecosystem and fertilizer needed to grow things. At some point, we will make soil out of the regolith, but it's not there naturally.
Finally, we have this comment, which seems gratuitous and almost a non sequitur in the context of this article:
"The planet is in the midst of a climate crisis the likes of which we have never seen…"
Oh, please. Such hyperbole.
Go tell it to the folks who had to live through effing glacial advances with neolithic technology. Or even those who ice skated on the Thames in the LIA. https://t.co/rw8vMJW4ze
This isn’t news to me. I’ve always been concerned (to the degree that I am concerned) about both, and in fact, I worry more about diastolic than systolic. I’m trying to get it down with 20 mg of Lisinopril, but it’s still 150/100 on waking. Fortunately, I’ve never had a cardiovascular event, despite having lost both parents relatively young to heart attacks. I think I have a much healthier lifestyle, though. They were both life-long smokers, and overweight (partly as a result of horrible nutrition advice from the government).