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Posts made in April, 2026

How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain

If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from the 1970s, that's because they are. The food activist community, vegetarians and other diet groups, rebranded their beliefs as Make America Health Again (MAHA) after former Natural Resources Defense Council and pillar of the Democratic party Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. switched sides and joined Republicans...

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Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became the first to have his pitch speed measured during a game. Rockwell International experts clocked the ball velocity at 100.8 miles per hour.That was the fastest pitch ever recorded. Yet last season over 50 pitchers in Major League Baseball threw 100 MPH and 140 more hit that velocity in the minor...

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You’re Seeing More Redheads Than Ever And Evolution Is Why

Just a few years ago, there were concerns that minorities like blondes and redheads were going extinct. The future belonged to Miss Clairol because they're recessive genes and with just five generations of bad biological rolls, you could have less chance of Scottish hair than Senator Elizabeth Warren has of being Native American.It may be that scientists just weren't seeing the signals.Instead of...

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Did The Humanities Ruin The Humanities And Take All Academia Down With Them?

At what point is enforced identification with what is obviously a collapsing system called out by people on the inside of once-powerful industries?Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made that error. Twinkies went bankrupt to get out of union control and start over. Yet no one on the floor believe that would happen.read...

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Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don’t Get Publicity But They’re Everywhere

Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)read more

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