The Cause of Interglacials

Written by Koen Vogel

What’s caused our current interglacial?

Numerous theories exist on what caused our current interglacial. Most explanations greatly oversimplify the cause to a “temperatures increased, so ice melted”, and fail to consider when, how or why the ice melted where it did, and why it didn’t somewhere nearby. For example, during the Oldest Dryas some ice sheets melted vigorously in both the Northern Hemisphere (e.g. western Canada) and in the Southern Hemisphere (Patagonia), while others didn’t and still haven’t (Greenland, Antarctica).

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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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Raw Milk vs. Armed Assailant

Written by John Leake

On one and the same day, I received e-mails directing my attention to two stories about life in rural America—one in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and one in Chenango County, New York—the latter being located 200 miles north of the former.

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