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Planetary scientists have taken what they know about Mars’s atmosphere and applied that model to Venus – giving new insights into how hydrogen disappeared from the planet most similar to Earth
https://theconversation.com/venus-is-losing-water-faster-than-previously-thought-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-early-planets-habitability-229342
#News #Science #Space #Chemistry

This month’s total #SolarEclipse is a fun experience for young children and an opportunity to teach some important science along the way
https://theconversation.com/3-ways-to-use-the-solar-eclipse-to-brighten-your-childs-knowledge-of-science-224298

Lithium-ion batteries aren’t perfect. They don’t work well in the cold and can sometimes catch fire.

Here’s the science of why – and the solutions coming out of the lab.
https://theconversation.com/lithium-ion-batteries-dont-work-well-in-the-cold-a-battery-researcher-explains-the-chemistry-at-low-temperatures-222571

So many diseases to treat, so little money and time.

While future profits play a big factor in which diseases get prioritized, advocacy and research incentives can also tilt the scale.

For example, that seemingly silly viral ALS ice bucket challenge in 2014 was a real fundraising success, and led to the discovery of five genes connected to ALS, and new clinical trials

https://theconversation.com/crispr-and-other-new-technologies-open-doors-for-drug-development-but-which-diseases-get-prioritized-it-comes-down-to-money-and-science-219572
#health

Five of Uranus’s moons might be ocean worlds − and if there’s water, there might be life. But we won’t know until we go looking.

https://theconversation.com/unwrapping-uranus-and-its-icy-secrets-what-nasa-would-learn-from-a-mission-to-a-wild-world-215219

#space #science #astronomy

Some dark craters on the Moon are never exposed to light − ice could be hiding in these permanently shadowed regions.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission marked a big step for mankind toward finding it.

https://theconversation.com/scientists-suspect-theres-ice-hiding-on-the-moon-and-a-host-of-missions-from-the-us-and-beyond-are-searching-for-it-216060
#space #science

From math to evolutionary game theory, looking at cancer through different lenses can offer further insights on how to approach treatment resistance, metastasis and health disparities.

Our health and biomedicine editor Vivian Lam celebrates the work of 7 researchers in this quick read:
https://theconversation.com/cancer-has-many-faces-5-counterintuitive-ways-scientists-are-approaching-cancer-research-to-improve-treatment-and-prevention-215698
#health #cancer #MedMastodon

“Meta officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by adolescents after TikTok – is harmful to teen girls’ body image and well-being. But the company swept those findings under the rug to continue conducting business as usual, according to a Sept. 14, 2021, Wall Street Journal report.”
These charges have reemerged in a lawsuit filed by 41 states and the District of Columbia.
https://theconversation.com/states-sue-meta-for-knowingly-hurting-teens-with-facebook-and-instagram-here-are-the-harms-researchers-have-documented-168043
#SocialMedia @psychology

Florida’s revised #history standards includes this:

“Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Two anthropologists explain this as a deeply entrenched ‘switching mechanism’, where “the story about the horrors of the slave system is transformed into a story about opportunity, success and the American dream.”

https://theconversation.com/why-separating-fact-from-fiction-is-critical-in-teaching-us-slavery-214233

#Histodons #Education @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

We passed 20,000 followers in this week on #mastodon!

In less than a year, we've accumulated 29% of the followers we got in 9 years of regular posting on the #birdsite, and we get far, far more engagement with our content here.

Thank you.

We will continue to post regularly here because we have found it is a community that values our kind of thoughtful journalism, written by experts for the public.

If you know folks who haven't discovered us yet, we'd really appreciate a boost #Newstodon

Instead of violating unjust laws, protestors using “uncivil obedience” follow the law (but in a way that undermines its very rationale).

Examples include atheists who have used laws to keep ‘pornography’ out of schools to request that the Bible be banned, and the Satanic Temple, which has used rules permitting religious after-school clubs to found clubs for young Satanists.

More from an expert of this growing form of #protest:
https://theconversation.com/uncivil-obedience-becomes-an-increasingly-common-form-of-protest-in-the-us-209928

You don’t need to crawl before you walk – at least according to the CDC.

It has eliminated crawling from the list of major developmental milestones it tells parents and caregivers to watch out for.

https://theconversation.com/babies-almost-all-try-crawling-to-get-from-point-a-to-point-b-but-cdc-says-its-not-a-useful-developmental-milestone-207815

#parenting #health #medmastodon

When the African wildcat became the domestic #cat, only 13 genes were changed by natural selection during the process. (By contrast, almost 3x as many genes changed during the descent of dogs from wolves.)

Lions, tigers and pumas are the attention-grabbing celebrities of the feline world. But of the 41 species of wild felines, the vast majority are about the size of a housecat.

More fascinating cat science for #InternationalCatDay here:

https://theconversation.com/cats-first-finagled-their-way-into-human-hearts-and-homes-thousands-of-years-ago-heres-how-208909
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

For one last #BlackHistoryMonth moment, let’s remember one of the trailblazers who have faded from memory:

Allison Davis was the first Black American to earn tenure at a predominantly white university, and his pioneering anthropological research (conducted with his wife Elizabeth Stubbs Davis) had substantial real-world policy impact, by showing the effects of racism and the discriminatory nature of IQ tests.

https://theconversation.com/allison-davis-forgotten-black-scholar-studied-and-faced-structural-racism-in-1940s-america-71933
#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #Histodons

📷: Davis family

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let's remember Bayard Rustin.

The civil rights leader, when he is remembered at all these days, is remembered for brilliantly organizing the 1963 March on Washington.

Not everyone appreciated his pioneering approach to intersectionality - and as a gay man, he was sometimes seen as a liability.

His biographer makes a case for Rustin as the signature radical voice during the 20th century
https://theconversation.com/meet-bayard-rustin-often-forgotten-civil-rights-activist-gay-rights-advocate-union-organizer-pacifist-and-man-of-compassion-for-all-in-trouble-197250
#BlackMastodon #LGBTHistory #GayRights #histodons

#PopeBenedict, who died at age 95, presented his case for Christ and Christianity’s transforming power as sources of truth, beauty and love in a way that even critics respected.

But his theological legacy will have to contend with the shadows of the numerous controversies that marked his time as pope and, later, as pope emeritus.

https://theconversation.com/pope-benedict-xvi-a-man-at-odds-with-the-modern-world-who-leaves-a-legacy-of-intellectual-brilliance-and-controversy-143942

#News #Pope

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