(The Conversation) — Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio to start with stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, he has designed no shortage of statements that catch the attention of awareness. “Who am I to choose?” he famously stated about homosexual clergymen. “Nowadays […]
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Comment on this story Comment One of the more noxious tropes to emerge from our hyper-polarized politics is the idea that those on the other side of the political spectrum are necessarily less-informed than we are. Stupider. This takes lots of forms. Some are pseudo-objective assessments of polls or other […]
Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are also in our bodies. “What […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe it was just too good to be true. For a few weeks in late January and early February, the U.S. economy seemed to have reached a rare sweet spot. Inflation was steadily slowing from painful heights. And growth and hiring remained surprisingly sturdy despite ever-higher interest […]
Covid can trigger damage to the heart on a cellular stage that can guide to long lasting troubles, together with irregular heartbeats and coronary heart failure, preliminary study suggests. Covid’s effects on the coronary heart have been perfectly documented, but a new analyze zooms in on the microscopic adjustments assumed […]
Oklahoma City KHN — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response. With doubt, fear, and misinformation running rampant nationwide — both online and offline — […]