Now that the dust has settled and the new European Parliament (EP) is seated, I thought we could look at where we stand and where we come from. If you are not familiar with the messy EU parliamentary politics,

...CONTINUES from part 1 I've seen the future, brother, and it's murder The USA currently supports most of the world's dictatorships and we all know-how it has been imposing/deposing world leaders and

TL;DR: capitalism attacks and undermines the same institutions and rights that fascists would be attacking if in power and/or that are in place precisely to prevent fascists from taking or wielding ultimate

In a couple of weeks or so it will be a year since I joined Steemit. Overall, I feel like I've had a pretty good experience so far and wanted to do a little retrospective (giveaway further down below for

A "lost" 1994 lecture by Carl Sagan has been found and published last week on November 9th (the 84th anniversary of his birth). In it, Sagan goes through many of his highlights, which include

This is a continuation of a previous post from last week. I'd recommend reading that one first. from CC BY-SA 4.0 source by Quince Media and from CC BY-SA 3.0 source by Marcus Werthmann The brain is sexually

Adapted from CC 2.0 source by Ted Eytan. An ultra far-right, authoritarian homophobe/transphobe will soon assume the presidency of Brazil[1] and according to a memo leaked a couple of weeks ago, the Trump

I have previously shared with you stories about how human activity clears forests at a rate of 27 soccer fields per minute and is decimating populations of orca whales, king penguins or coral reefs. Now,

We are all probably aware of the recent IPCC report exhorting immediate action before 2030 to prevent catastrophic climate change. Yesterday I came across a report I thought would be interesting to all

People love to bring this up to defend capitalism. "Socialism kills innovation!" they like to say. "Look at IBM, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google... Capitalism clearly creates the kind of

public domain source by NOAA. First discovered in the 1800s, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) entered mass production in the 1930s for their properties as lubricants, insulators and coolants, among other

Academy Award-winner Peter Jackson—who you may know for directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy, or perhaps even his earlier slapstick-gore B movie classics—spent the last four years working on restoring

Ah, pooping. Defecating. Moving your bowels. Taking a dump. Dropping a load. A very private matter, perhaps even taboo. We all do it, but we are pretty ashamed of the act and shy away from talking about

A new study published last week has linked intravenous drug abuse to a gene variant of RASGRF2 (known as RASGRF2-int) which has the presence of a viral element in its sequence. The RASGRF2 gene codes for

Forests currently cover around 30% of the world's land area, even as human activity—mainly agriculture and commodity production—clears forested areas at an estimated 27 football (soccer) fields per minute.

Antibiotic resistance has been a growing concern in the scientific community for years. Through their use, misuse and abuse, we have slowly but surely been selecting for antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The EU Parliament has yesterday voted in favour of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 2016/0280(COD). The Directive will go through a final vote next January and, once passed, will

A week ago someone asked me about the origin of life. I gave them some basic pointers but since it's not my area of expertise I went on to read a bit on the latest developments in the field. I then thought

In a previous post I shared with you a study projecting that the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), an upper-level predator in the southern polar ecosystem, would have to relocate en masse in the

Last Friday it was reported that the USA is preparing to bomb Iran in the coming weeks according to senior Australian government sources that remain anonymous. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull