Monarch used secretive procedure to become only person in country not bound by a green energy ruleThe Queen’s lawyers secretly lobbied Scottish ministers to change a draft law to exempt her private land from a major initiative to cut carbon emissions, …
Tell us your experiences of driving electric vehicles
Electric vehicles are here to stay as new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the UK from 2030. What are your experiences of driving them?Sales of electric vehicles are rising as new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the UK from 2030. Guard…
Pandemic gives respite to Greek island sea turtles – but returning tourists could wreck it
With a new study suggesting endangered loggerhead turtles reclaimed empty shores to breed during Covid, conservationists fear the return of mass tourismNikoletta Sidiropoulou and her colleagues in the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece (Archelon) …
「見た目が地味」な植物ほど研究対象になりにくい：研究結果
特定の植物が研究対象になるかどうかは、その外見に大きく左右されるという研究結果が、このほど発表された。植物のみならず動物の研究でも起きているというこの外見によるバイアスは、人知れず絶滅する種を生んでしまう恐れもあるという。
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Vitamin D and Cancer in African-Americans
H/T The Breviary (here). Differences in vitamin D status may account for unexplained disparities in cancer survival rates between African and White Americans Authors: William B. Grant and Alan N. Peiris View affiliations Abstract: Considerable dispa…
Blue Eyes, Blacks And Occular Albinism
Photographs of this lad have been making the rounds, with what I believe to be a poor explanation of his blue eyes, on top of all the people who claim that it is a case of blatant photoshopping (forgery). He is from Zimbabwe and the photographer was Va…