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This Tuesday (11/12/24) - Topics sensationalized!:
Periodic Table in a 2D World - Memorial for Rob Lerner - Larry's Comments - Conservative Christian Women Are Having Horrible Sex - High-speed internet access correlates with increased obesity - Gut Inflammation Link to Alzheimer's Disease Confirmed - Huge Study Shows Where Gout Comes From - Gut microbiome dynamics linked to rheumatoid arthritis - Stalling a disease that could annihilate banana production - DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals more Surprises - New Wingsuit Foil is insane - 'King Arthur's Hall' is five times older than thought - Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in an Ancient Treasure - Denisovans: New hominin group that interbred with modern Man - Primal Origins of Kissing - Elephant turn a hose into a sophisticated showering tool - Photo of an Ant's Face - Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya - Elephant turns a hose into a sophisticated showering tool - A new kind of mitochondria - Largest Organism in The World Could Officially Be The Oldest Living Thing - When Deer Were Giant - Turning SHRIMP into Fabric - Switching on The Lights at The Dawn of Time - The Big Bang Is Beyond Doubt. An Expert Reveals Why (Ha! Ha!) - "Neutrino fog" emerges, complicating searches for dark matter - Aether Theory Makes Comeback - Japan Launches Wooden Satellite - Chinese ‘Copying’ SpaceX’s Rocket Chopstick Capture - Why America Won't Work With China In Space - Jupiter's Metallic Hydrogen Core - Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice - Current sheets in turbulent plasma form in Earth's magnetosheath - 'Puter geek update - US almost built the final weapon - Trump To Dismantle AI Safeguards - Ozone Layer Hole is Continuing to Shrink.
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Study finds high-speed internet access correlates with increased obesityPopular high speed internet activities like bingeing on streaming platforms and online gaming could be increasing obesity rates in Australians, new research has found.

Huge Study Shows Where Gout Comes From, And It's Not What We ThoughtGout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but new research suggests genetics play more of a factor in developing the arthritic condition than previously thought.

Stalling a disease that could annihilate banana production is a high-return investment in ColombiaThere's no cure for a fungal disease that could potentially wipe out much of global banana production. Widespread adoption of cement paths, disinfection stations, and production strategies could net 3–4 USD of benefits for each dollar invested in Colombia.

First-Ever Wingsuit Foil Pushes Human Flight To Record LevelsPeter Salzmann, an Austrian wingsuit pilot and extreme sports enthusiast, has consistently redefined human flight’s potential. Known for pushing

Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in an Ancient Treasure StashAmidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.

The Primal Origins of Kissing Were Just Revealed, And It's So GrossNobody knows when kissing emerged among humans.

Elephant turns a hose into a sophisticated showering toolTool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report highlights elephants' remarkable skill in using a hose as a flexible shower head. As an unexpected bonus, researchers say they also have evidence that a fellow elephant knows how to turn the water off, perhaps as a kind of 'prank.'

Plastic-eating insect discovered in KenyaThere's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks of a small group of insects that have been found to be capable of breaking the polluting plastic down, though this is the first time that an insect species native to Africa has been found to do this.

Signs of "neutrino fog" emerge, complicating searches for dark matterSensitive detectors are picking up hints of high-energy solar neutrinos — called the "neutrino fog." These may overwhelm dark matter signals.

Japan Launches First-Ever Wooden SatelliteJapan recently made history by launching LignoSat, the world’s first wooden satellite, into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This innovative s

Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean.

Trump Plans To Dismantle AI Safeguards Put In Place By The Biden Admin After VictoryIn a surprising turn early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump emerged as the presumptive winner of the 2024 US presidential election. As he prepares to t

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Researchers Confirm That Conservative Christian Women Are Having Horrible SexA new study seems to confirm something tragic — that conservative Christian women really are having terrible sex.

Gut Inflammation Link to Alzheimer's Disease Confirmed Yet AgainResearchers connecting pieces of the massive Alzheimer's puzzle are closer to slotting the next one in place, with yet another link between our guts and brain.

Gut microbiome dynamics linked to rheumatoid arthritis progressionUniversity of Leeds-led research has identified specific changes in the gut microbiome of individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis, potentially discovering disease onset mechanisms.

DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise Nearly 200 Years LaterOne stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

'King Arthur's Hall' is five times older than thought, researchers discoverA historic site in Cornwall linked to King Arthur has been found to be 4,000 years older than previously thought after a new survey was carried out by a team of researchers, including experts from the University of St Andrews.

New insights into the Denisovans: New hominin group that interbred with modern day humansScientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding events that helped shape early human history. Scientists outline evidence suggesting that several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range from Siberia to Southeast Asia and from Oceania to South America, were adapted to distinct environments. They further outline a number of genes of Denisovan origin that gave modern day humans advantages in their different environments.

This Incredible Photo of an Ant's Face Is Like Something From a NightmareYou've most likely never seen an ant like this before: in an ultra-closeup, Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas snapped a shot of an ant's face that looks like a still from some fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings.

Largest Organism in The World Could Officially Be The Oldest Living ThingAge might well be just a number, but for a plant in Utah known affectionately as Pando, it could be a digit that leaves all other living things in the dust.

We Finally Know What Switched on The Lights at The Dawn of TimeWe finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early Universe.

Sadly, we will have to put up with this kind of hubris for a few more decades. Is it a case of an expert knowing more and more about less and less, another cosmologist attempting to feed the snake’s tail to itself.

Here’s what our erstwhile cosmic friend has not paid attention to:

The observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope, show us that the ‘Dark Ages’, an epoch of primordial particles which was supposed to occur after the supposed Big Bang - is not there. Instead it is a realm smack full of mature garden variety spiral galaxies consisting of second generation stars, billions of years old.

The Dark Ages seems to have completely dropped out of cosmological discussions, as if of no relevance.

What is most significant about this is that the Dark Ages was an evolutionary prediction based on our present interpretation of cosmic redshift.

It was dead wrong, but the article, as with so many others, chug along as if the lack of a Dark Ages observation is of no significance.

But if the present interpretation of cosmic redshift is wrong, then continuing to use it as a means to measure evolution in time is also wrong, which brings us to the next observation.

Seen through the eyes of the Big Bang concept, the Universe is expanding. This would imply that we have to take into account that the distant objects we are looking at were in a universe smaller than it is today, the result being that these distant objects are impossibly small for the amount of energy they are putting out, so that a single ordinary spiral galaxy must be the tenth the size of our local galaxies, yet put out 100 times the energy that one would expect from these distant galaxies.

But if you remove the now discredited cosmic redshift interpretation and just consider the distance simply by ordinary line of sight, these galaxies become just normal galaxies, similar to those we see in our local galactic group rather than fantastical objects that need fancy hand waving imaginings to explain.

So to conclude, the author and his many cohorts are seeing these distant galaxies through the lens of a defunct theory, and will continue to endlessly publish this pabulum, not unlike the geocentric earth-centered ptolemaic adherents who doggedly continued to churn out their irrelevant Earth centered model for several generations after Isaac Newton published Principia.