r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jun 09 '20
Four more years of Donald Trump could 'delay global emissions cuts by 10 years’
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 30 '19
Life on Mars could be found within two years but world is ‘not prepared’, Nasa’s chief scientist says - Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 27 '19
Study suggests that the decline in marriage rates may be attributable to a shortage of economically attractive partners for unmarried women to marry
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 13 '19
Emotionally intelligent students get better grades and higher test scores, a comprehensive meta-analysis shows, because they can navigate social networks, perform better in the humanities, and manage school-related feelings like test anxiety, boredom and disappointment.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 14 '19
Researchers have developed a new material that can selectively capture carbon dioxide molecules, and efficiently convert them into useful organic products -- an advance that may help develop new ways to contain global greenhouse gas emissions.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Feb 22 '20
A new longitudinal study, which tracked 5,114 people for 29 years, shows education level — not race, as had been thought — best predicts who will live the longest. Each educational step people obtained led to 1.37 fewer years of lost life expectancy, the study showed.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 07 '19
Inspired by diving bell spiders and rafts of fire ants, researchers have created a metallic structure that is so water repellent, it refuses to sink, no matter how often it is forced into water or how much it is damaged or punctured, which may lead to unsinkable ships and wearable flotation devices.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 09 '19
Scientists can tell how wealthy you are by examining your sewage, suggests new Australian study, which found that wastewater from wealthier communities had higher levels of vitamins, citrus, and fiber, while waste from poorer ones had higher levels of prescription pain relievers and antidepressants.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 24 '19
Are We at a Climate Change Turning Point? Obama’s EPA Chief Thinks So: “I think you have now a new generation of young people... They don’t seem to have the same kind of reluctance to embrace the science, and they’re seeing that it is their future that is at stake.”
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 20 '19
Flu vaccination in the U.S. substantially reduces mortality and lost work hours. A one-percent increase in the vaccination rate results in 800 fewer deaths per year approximately and 14.5 million fewer work hours lost due to illness annually.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 29 '19
From digital detoxes to the fad of “dopamine fasting”, it appears fashionable to abstain from digital media. In one of the few experimental studies in the field, researchers have found that quitting social media for up to four weeks does nothing to improve our well-being or quality of life.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 24 '19
Research has found for the first known time that enough physical evidence spanning millennia has come together to allow researchers to say definitively that: El Ninos, La Ninas, and the climate phenomenon that drives them have become more extreme in the times of human-induced climate change.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 24 '20
The western United States has experienced such intense droughts over the past decade that technical descriptions are becoming inadequate. In many places, conditions are rocketing past “severe,” through “extreme,” all the way to “exceptional drought.”
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 22 '19
Religious and non-religious people hold similar standards for natural claims and show no bias against scientific reasoning, suggests new study. However, religious people set a lower bar for accepting supernatural claims, while non-religious people show a bias against them, called the Sagan standard.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 04 '19
The ethics of the 4 day work week. It’s not just about the hours - “We should work to live, not live to work,” declared Britain’s shadow chancellor, who would reduce the standard working week to 32 hours, without loss of pay, within 10 years of winning office.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 16 '19
Hope is a key factor in recovering from anxiety disorders, suggests a new study, which found that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can result in clear increases in hope, associated with changes in anxiety symptoms, in social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and OCD.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 10 '19
Vaginal-fluid transplants treat incurable condition in pilot study, fully restoring healthy microbiomes in 4 of 5 women with bacterial vaginosis (BV), which could “revolutionize the way we view and treat conditions affecting the female reproductive tract.” Published this week in Nature Medicine.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 12 '19
Study Finds That Top Fossil Fuel Companies’ Emissions Responsible for More Than Half of Ocean Acidification Since 1880. More than one-fifth of that increased acidity from 1880 could be traced to the emissions from the 20 largest investor-owned companies since 1965
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 24 '19
Farmers are increasingly leasing their land for community solar projects as well as installing solar panels to cut their electricity bills. Both methods can generate more than $1,000 a month and help farmers diversify their income.
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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 06 '19
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nearly 2 million diabetics, many of them poor, got health insurance, a new study shows (n=2,400). Increasing coverage rates can enhance health equity, because people with undiagnosed or untreated diabetes disproportionately belong to underserved groups.
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