DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest ( www.theatlantic.com )
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think....
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People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think....
Conceiving after 35 is next to impossible—right?...
In fact, the case had essentially nothing to do with abortion. Three families pursuing IVF sued their clinic after another patient apparently wandered into the facility’s freezers without the staff realizing it and picked up a container of embryos. The extreme cold burned that person’s hand, causing them to drop the...
Organizers of the 2024 British Wildlife Photography Awards just announced their collection of winners and runners-up. More than 14,000 images were submitted in 11 different categories, celebrating the wildlife and wild spaces found across the United Kingdom. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of this year’s...
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Science fiction, when revisited years later, sometimes doesn’t come across as all that fictional. Speculative novels have an impressive track record at prophesying what innovations are to come, and how they might upend the world: H. G. Wells wrote about an atomic bomb decades before World War II, and Ray Bradbury’s 1953...
The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down::Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.
The Texas governor is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging it....
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There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
I found this essay about differing viewpoints on where Homo sapiens is headed to be very interesting.
Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.”...
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