Science and reality
The year was 2003, and Mark Siddall was in South Africa a-hunting the elusive hippo rectum leech.
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Rural areas have the slowest—or in some cases, nonexistent—Internet connections.
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Enough is enough. The Administrator of NASA calls on congress to fully fund the space program.
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The software a group of scientists used to replicate 100 psychology studies is a framework for the future of science.
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Katrina looked like a pixelated blob in 2005 hurricane models.
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Outbreaks force governments to play an excruciating game of catch up as they scramble to develop vaccines for new pathogens. It doesn't have to be that way.
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Ecuador has earmarked $500 million to deal with the impact of a potential eruption of Cotopaxi as the volcano continues to rumble.
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Turbo Diesel, Chocolope Kush, and all those other crazy names people use to describe their weed are basically meaningless.
The post Sorry, But the Names for Weed Strains Are Kinda Meaningless appeared first on WIRED.
As the seas rise and storms worsen, it's worth taking a look at how poorly US infrastructure is going to do under climate change.
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Americans haven't been smacked with anything worse than a Category 2 hurricane since 2005.
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