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7 votes
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What an underground nuclear test actually looks like
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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
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A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
5 votes -
Marie Curie's PhD thesis
8 votes -
The tempest prognosticator
4 votes -
Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
7 votes -
Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
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Chloroquine, past and present
3 votes -
A brief history of quantum mechanics
7 votes -
Russian and Egyptian multiplication
5 votes -
The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
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Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
7 votes -
From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the world
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
9 votes -
The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
7 votes -
How fungi made all life on land possible
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Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
6 votes -
Lasers reveal 60,000 ancient Maya structures in Guatemala
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
9 votes -
The missing link that wasn’t
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The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price
6 votes -
The math of Emil Konopinski
7 votes -
Albert Einstein's relativity document gifted to Nobel museum
4 votes -
Who really invented the periodic table?
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The hidden heroines of chaos
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Robert R. Wilson's congressional testimony in favor of building a particle collider at Fermilab, April 1969
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Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter
9 votes -
The Croc That Ran on Hooves
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Biosphere 2 - The lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments
13 votes -
The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
7 votes -
The Hitler Beetle and other oddities of scientific naming
4 votes -
New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines
7 votes -
When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
13 votes -
Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence
6 votes -
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
14 votes -
Was Roman concrete better?
6 votes -
Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
10 votes -
Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
4 votes -
Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
13 votes -
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity first proven correct at what is now Australian lawn bowls club
3 votes -
Forging Islamic science
6 votes -
'A Nazi in all but name': Author argues Asperger's syndrome should be renamed
18 votes -
The spectre of smallpox lingers
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Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved short stature independently
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Our pungent history: Sweat, perfume, and the scent of death
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Ancient girl's parents were two different human species
16 votes