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History of transcendental numbers
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Ronald Reagan and the biggest failure in physics
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
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How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces
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Ancient Earth map | Map showing modern locations across millions of years
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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The curious case of Nebraska Man
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A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence
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Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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The story of solar-grade silicon
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10,000 brains in a basement: The dark and mysterious origins of Denmark’s psychiatric brain collection
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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10,000 brains in a basement – the dark and mysterious origins of Denmark's psychiatric brain collection
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The man who tried to fake an element
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The nurse who introduced gloves to the operating room
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Autopsy of Adam & Eve: Looking at a selection of paper instruments from the 15th-17th century, at the Royal Society
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Archaeology’s sexual revolution
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Vaccinia
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Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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We look at a fascinating object loaned to the Royal Society - a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
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Women were the unseen healthcare providers of the Middle Ages
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Lehmer Factor Stencils: A paper factoring machine before computers
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The great American science heist
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Vicious doctors and cruel diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
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The insane engineering of the X-15 (experimental hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft)
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How scientific taxonomy constructed the myth of race
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What will the world look like in 250 million years? | Map Men
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We broke phosphorus: Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
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One town, four elements – Ytterby in Sweden is famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world
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What did the past smell like?
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
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An archaeology of marijuana
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The undying appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “death ray”
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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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