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Posts made in January, 2021

An Alternate Approach To Stopping Mosquitoes That Spread Zika – Using CRISPR To Make Them Resistant To Carrying It

The mosquitoes that carry zika, like Aedes aegypti, are considered by all but the most activist ecologists to be useless disease vectors. There is nothing they do in nature that isn't easily done by other mosquitoes and they can safely join the 99.999999999% of species that have gone extinct without causing a cascade of doom. Seriously, Send me your hate mail, @ me on Twitter, try to cancel...

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The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000

If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...

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The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000

If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...

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Twitter Was Telling The World About COVID-19 When China Was Still Suppressing Information

In January of 2020 we began to write about "coronavirus 2019" due to concern regarding increased cases of pneumonia during a mild flu season, while the Chinese dictatorship was denying there was any problem at all. Just over a week later a key whistleblower in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, turned up dead after being arrested and held prisoner for a month by the communist government for...

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Poor Kids In Developing Nations Are Geting Fatter Too – Because Food Is More Affordable

In 1975, four percent of school-age kids were overweight and the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration says that was up to 18 percent in 2016. Like with smoking and alcoholism, obesity is often a pediatric disease - people who start early are far more likely to keep doing it in adulthood. Obese people have shorter life expectancy and risk factors like Type 2 diabetes and heart disease and the...

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