Expert: How Trump speaks in coded language to his base
In the run-up to the election, an expert breaks down the language President Donald Trump uses to speak to his base of voters.
yesterday • ~5 min
Tags: politics history language bias society-and-culture elections voters us-presidents
Giant 'toothed' birds flew over Antarctica 40 million to 50 million years ago
Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous 'toothed' bird that lived for a period of about 60 million years after dinosaurs.
Oct. 27, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: birds asteroid dinosaurs extinction fish fossils reptiles jaws specimens ice-age antarctica ice new-zealand ducks earth snow museums penguins squid marsupials skeleton southern-ocean continents cretaceous-period natural-history 1980s pterosaurs vultures southern-hemisphere albatross university-of-california-berkeley
Fantastic beasts in the real world and where to find them
London's Natural History Museum is set to stage one of the most ambitious exhibitions in its history.
Oct. 26, 2020 • ~5 min
Tags: jk-rowling natural-history-museum
Clovis only made stone tools for about 300 years
The Clovis, some of North America's oldest inhabitants, probably only made stone tools for about 300 years, new research shows.
Oct. 23, 2020 • ~5 min
Tags: archaeology science-and-technology early-humans ancient-history stone-tools north-america
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma may settle legal claims with a new 'public trust' that would still be dedicated to profit
The government has tried to harness profit-driven drugmaking to serve public health before. The results were underwhelming.
Oct. 21, 2020 • ~10 min
Tags: history opioids philanthropy-and-nonprofits opioid-crisis oxycodone business-ethics oxycontin corporate-culture sackler-family purdue-pharma opioid-litigation
Translating lost languages using machine learning
System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history.
Oct. 21, 2020 • ~5 min
Tags: machine-learning artificial-intelligence linguistics history language big-data research electrical-engineering-computer-science-eecs computer-science-and-technology algorithms computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing
Ammonite: Who was the real Mary Anning?
In a romantic Victorian-era drama, Kate Winslet plays the role of fossilist Mary Anning. Who was she?
Oct. 16, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: geology women-in-science palaeontology natural-history-museum lyme-regis
What is osteopathic medicine? A D.O. explains
Almost 10% of physicians in the US are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and that proportion is rising. Their medical knowledge matches that of other doctors; the difference is the philosophy behind it.
Oct. 16, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: history-of-medicine physicians musculoskeletal medical-training medical-schools medical-students musculoskeletal-pain patient-care
How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it's usually here to stay.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: influenza history-of-medicine infectious-diseases epidemiology public-health covid-19 coronavirus hivaids pandemic malaria hiv tuberculosis plague vaccines measles sars-cov-2 vaccination disease severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-sars black-death global-pandemic ebola-virus covid-19-pandemic middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-mers smallpox emerging-diseases disease-outbreaks smallpox-eradication disease-eradication coronaviruses leprosy endemic history-of-public-health disease-modeling
Study offers clues to how climate affected 1918 pandemic
A new study of ice-core data shows that an unusual, six-year period of cold temperatures and heavy rainfall coincided with European deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu.
Oct. 5, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: science-technology history environments-sustainability alvin-powell michael-mccormick spanish-flu rainfall world-war-i alexander-more initiative-for-the-science-of-the-human-past long-island-university nottingham-university paul-mayewski university-of-maine
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