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The Irish Civil War began on June 28, 1922. It was fought between the provisional government of Southern Ireland (which became the Irish Free State on December 6, 1922) and the IRA members who were unwilling to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, which had formally established the Irish…
Read More »Health officials have declared that California is experiencing an epidemic of pertussis, better known as whooping cough. So far this year California alone has experienced 910 confirmed cases and there are 600 potential further cases under investigation. Five infants have died so far, all under the age of three months.…
Read More »This is the seventh of a series of posts I will be doing on human evolution. The previous one can be found here. As always, please leave any questions you’d like to have answered. For quite some time scientists have known that there were three separate instances of hominids leaving…
Read More »Last Thursday, the Senate voted 53-47 to block the passage of Senate Joint Resolution 26, which read as follows: “A joint resolution disapproving a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the endangerment finding and the cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the…
Read More »This is the sixth of a series of posts I will be doing on human evolution. I apologize for not being able to link to the prior ones. As always, please leave any questions you’d like to have answered. In my previous post I introduced us to humanity’s cousins, the…
Read More »The United States remains one of the few developed countries where a significant portion of the public does not accept the scientific consensus that dramatic climate change is occurring and is the result of human activity. In a recent essay in Science the philosopher Philip Kitcher of Columbia University examined…
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