Dengue fever is the most common vector-borne disease in the world, the World Health Organization estimates that 2.5 billion people at risk and that up to 390 million people are infected with the virus each year. There's no medication and no vaccine, so obviously the best solution is to control the insects themselves. Not using dangerous chemicals is even better.You'd be surprised how many people...
read moreI've often argued that California's biggest industry is hypocrisy - not just talking about freedom and liberalism while banning conduct elites happen not to like this year or reconfiguring voting districts so that there is no political opposition but that we claim to care about the environment.In reality, our dirty secret, that people either don't know or don't want to know but every policy maker...
read moreYou might think last year’s Midwest drought, the worst in 25 years and causing crop losses and water shortages in some places, would have an upside; a lot fewer mosquito eggs. Nope. Pesky evolution was around a long time before pesky global warming (okay, maybe not, at one point Earth was really, really warm – […]
read morePresident Obama recently got some ridicule for hastily claiming he loved skeet shooting and therefore was not against sportsmen when he wanted to tell Americans they couldn't be trusted to decide how many bullets to buy for their guns. That he was simultaneously offering bombs and fighter jets to terrorists in Egypt while he didn't trust his own citizens with small arms ammunition was not...
read moreCzech researchers have hypothesized that carp in large tubs at Christmas markets possess a capacity to sense geomagnetic fields. read more
read moreThere is a Chinese middle class for the first time ever and they have decided to avoid their numerous conventional food scares by opting for organic food scares. read...
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