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Pigeons and People Have Been Frenemies for Longer Than You Think
Bones discovered at an archaeological site in Cyprus suggest the birds have been strutting around human settlements since at least 1400 B.C. Source link
Ebola Containment Efforts May Have Been Hindered by USAID Shutdown and CDC Cuts
Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa. Source link
The Good List: 6 Things to Add Delight to Your Day
Travel cake, telegrams and a possibly addictive word game. Source link
Surgeon General’s Office Issues Screen Time Warning
The post of surgeon general has remained empty since President Trump took office last year. Source link
Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?
Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments Source link
New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees
Jennie Durant’s Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book’s grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures? Source link
Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test
Previously classified photos and documents show the scientific work that went into the world’s first atomic test in 1945 – a test that, just weeks later, would see nuclear bombs dropped in Japan Source link
Ebola Crisis Sparks Debate Over Global Health Double Standards
To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound. Source link
RFK Jr. Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force
The health secretary has undermined the work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force over the past year. Source link
Thomas Massie’s Defeat Could Come Back to Haunt Trump
Jeet Heer The president’s successful campaign to remove the rebel congressman has a real chance of backfiring. The post Thomas Massie’s Defeat Could Come Back to Haunt Trump appeared first on The Nation. Source link