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How You Could Fool A Forensic Test With Flour And Yeast
There’s a basic test used to identify bodily secretions at crime scenes. It’s not the only test, but it is useful in primary investigations — unless you spill a lot of commercial flour around.
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Study: Some Deepak Chopra Tweets Are Indistinguishable From Bullshit
Deepak Chopra is known around the world for spouting pseudo-scientific garbage wrapped up in spiritual feel-goodery. A new paper in the journal Judgment and Decision Making even uses Chopra’s tweets to show how some people have trouble distinguishing profound statements from bullshit.
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This Map Shows Just How Long Travel Took 100 Years Ago
You might battled queues, delays and cancellations while you travelled over Christmas, but be grateful you’re travelling in 2015 when travel time is measured in hours — rather than in days, the metric used in this 1914 map.
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How Fast Can We Transition To A Low-Carbon Energy System?
Starting later this month, the world’s nations will convene in traumatised Paris to hammer out commitments to slow down global climate change. Any long-term solution will require “decarbonising” the world energy economy — that is, shifting to power sources that use little or no fossil fuel.