AIDS from Africa, tobacco from the Americas, oil-based economy from the middle east...it's almost like the planet is allergic to colonization.
AIDS from Africa, tobacco from the Americas, oil-based economy from the middle east...it's almost like the planet is allergic to colonization.
So, the original HIV incubator was a result of Belgian policies in their administration of the Congo Free State/crown-owned colony or its successor the Belgian Congo?
You'd still be rolling your eyes, because on CSI, they'd do it in 2 minutes with the help of a Batch script in Python for their Visual C++ traceroute software. Oh, and with three hands on the keyboard at all times.
An international team of researchers has traced the "epidemic ignition" of HIV/AIDS to 1920s Kinshasa, what is now…
Stories like this make me sympathize with southerners. It's one thing to say a place is backwards but so often the conversation turns to just trashing everyone from the south. I'm sure you know what I mean. That must fucking blow whenever stuff like this comes up.
Most Christians are not idiots. In fact creationism is a relatively new phenomenon. Idiots are not, however.
They mock ridiculous Christians. As a believer myself, I have yet to see them truly mock the faith.
When Muslims make claims such as that Sun revolves around the Earth, they most certainly deserve to be ridiculed:
15/15. Religion N/A. Honestly, I thought this was pretty basic stuff—the reported numbers seem really low.
Remember when the Gods would destroy those who would use their names in a way that made them look bad?
A friend of mine had an "Ankh if you love Isis" bumper sticker on her car. It and all the other stickers she had were vandalized last week. Apparently some people may have been unaware of the ~4000 year gap.
It's also not a good time to wear t-shirts promoting the metal band.
Third Rock Radio mixes alt/indie rock with embedded NASA stories and interviews with popular science communicators.…
What's Pat Sajak's opinion of this?
In the short film Mis-Drop, we watch a soldier's first and final mission from the perspective of a head-mounted…
"An anonymous dude is very upset that, after he maneuvered his "big girl" girlfriend into an open relationship so he could score with mad babes, she's getting loads more dates than him."
A meta-analysis including nearly 1.3 million children posted online last week in the journal Vaccine has…
In 1966, George E. Mueller, NASA associate administrator for Manned Space Flight, produced a concept drawing of what…
The world is full of ruined cities, but some have such mysterious rises and falls that they haunt our imaginations.…
For Jezebel’s 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting some classic posts from our archive. Here’s to the next ten.
The arrival of Endeavour in Los Angeles last week has been described by many as the final note in the coda to NASA's…