How glorifying ignorance leads to scientific illiteracy | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | February 2025

As of the 1990s, North Korea began to deforest much of its lands to serve agricultural purposes. However, only a few years later, flood problems, largely related to that same act of deforestation, led to food shortages and famines. More than 30 years later, these problems continue to affect the North Korean people. (Credit: World…

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Measurement of the effects of the consumption of dietary proteins on the cytetic models of protein throughout the body

The idea that “we are what we are eaten” has been widespread for hundreds of years, and the relationship between body composition and food consumption has been investigated for a long time. The synthesis and decomposition of body protein (protein kinetics throughout the body) in response to dietary consumption has been studied for almost a…

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Reorganization of phylogenetic genes and implications

Scorpions, a diverse group of arachnids consisting of more than 2,000 valid species, have received limited research attention in terms of their complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomas). To increase the frequency of taxonomic sampling of the species available for mythogenomous -based study, we rebuild the complete mythogenomas of five scorpions, Androctonus Amoreuxi (Audouin, 1826), Hottentotta Tamulus…

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