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This Just In: Arctic Cold In Winter

Written by CDN

In an excited story about the recovery of artefacts from the doomed Franklin expedition’s shipwrecked Erebus and Terror, the Canadian Press slipped in the claim that “Climate change, however, is shifting the terms of the work. Less sea ice means the wrecks are more vulnerable to waves and currents generated by winter storms”.

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Is Graphene Oxide In Their Secret Sauce?

Written by Maryam Henein

The Overton Window is the range of ideas/things the public is willing to consider and tolerate. In this post-truth world, facts slowly seep into frame to hand-hold the masses across the spectrum of acceptability — think lab leak. We knew this novel virus never came from a wet market and here we are four years later and the mainstream is just accepting the lab leak now. How many more years before people realize this wasn’t accidental but deliberate?

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