Outrage After Kyrgyzstan Reburies Its Only Ancient Mummy

An Asian elephant calf and its mother flee from a mob, throwing fiery balls of tar, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Black Opal - Lightning Ridge, Australia

Jimmy Kimmel sends a message to the Anti-Vaccine movement.

He invited some real medical professionals to address the issue of the anti-vaccine movement, watch the full clip here.

The Evolution of Multicellular Life

Hawaii Becomes the First State to Pass a Bill in Support of Universal Basic Income

Hawaii's government is going to evaluate UBI.

As the threat of automation grows, governments will have to deal with growing unemployment. UBI is growing in interest, and while there’s still research to be done, I’m glad that people are at least having the conversation.

Also, since automation is coming for middle and upper class jobs too, I expect to see progress to be made a bit more quickly. Hopefully.

Oceans under greatest threat in history, warns Sir David Attenborough

Blue Planet 2 producers say final episode lays bare shocking damage humanity is wreaking in the seas, from climate change to plastic pollution to noise

Sorry for the doom and gloom today, but these have literally been the articles that I’ve come across today  =[

Use them as motivation for the mid-term elections.

Altered Tetanus Vaccine May Protect Against Allergies and Alzheimer’s

Research from the Universities of Dundee and Oxford has shown how combining the tetanus vaccine with a viral particle that normally affects cucumbers can be used to treat psoriasis and allergies, and may even protect against Alzheimer’s disease.

The research is in Nature Vaccines. (full open access)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aF_unlvjccA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque

Christopher Columbus: What Really Happened

Biggest collection of dinosaur footprints found on Australian coast

Paleontologists have published a description of one of the best collections of dinosaur footprints on Earth from a stretch of beach on the northern coast of Western Australia. They include one of the largest dinosaur footprints known, as well as the first fossil evidence of stegosaurs in Australia.

Dinosaur footprints exposed on a Western Australia beach prove to be part of the most abundant track sites on Earth. Some are among the largest ever found.

Image by Steven Salisbury et al.