Month: December 2018

‘Project Blitz’: Here’s the new plan Christian nationalists have to seize even more power 

“the ‘religious vote’ for Trump was primarily the result of Christian nationalism,” an Old Testament-based worldview fusing Christian and American identities

Source: ‘Project Blitz’: Here’s the new plan Christian nationalists have to seize even more power | Alternet

Statement on COP24 Sit-In

We are in the midst of a climate emergency, facing droughts, storms, and ecosystem collapse of an unprecedented intensity. The lives and livelihoods of billions are at risk, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people bearing the brunt of a climate crisis that fans the flames of injustice everywhere.

Source: Statement on COP24 Sit-In

Remarkable vid of a mouse embryo developing | Uncommon Descent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqtL8dYM1H0&feature=youtu.beThis series of videos from McDole et al. shows the development of a mouse embryo, captured using adaptive light-sheet microscopy, and highlights cell division (part A), cell movements (part B) and tissue dynamics (parts C, D) during em

Source: Remarkable vid of a mouse embryo developing | Uncommon Descent

Smithsonian: The asteroid strike was only one factor in dinosaur extinction | Uncommon Descent

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and produced cataclysmic disruptions that, it is believed, killed off about 75% of species (the K/Pg extinction). But many researchers think there must have been other factors at work.

Source: Smithsonian: The asteroid strike was only one factor in dinosaur extinction | Uncommon Descent