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Photograph courtesy of Andrew Knoll A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters, by Andrew H. Knoll (Custom House|HarperCollins, $22.99)   Earth, with its mountains and rivers, forests and grasslands, oceans and marshes, is home to an extraordinary range of life. It is also the source of the food—and air—that sustain humanity, and of the natural resources—coal and oil, gold and diamonds—that have supported civilization, with all its cultural and social glories and shortcomings. But the planet has not always been so hospitable to life, as Fisher professor of natural...

Tue, 03/02/2021 LAWRENCE — A new study in the journal eLife from researchers at the University of Kansas Department of Molecular Biosciences reveals that virus variants in fruit fly (Drosophila) populations separated by hundreds of miles have been evolving along a strikingly similar path. “Drosophila is a 120-year-old model system for understanding all sorts of different things — genetics, in particular,” said co-author Robert Unckless, assistant professor of molecular biosciences. “The idea was that in each of these isolated populations, host-virus co-evolution can happen somewhat ...

Did you notice it? What caused a power flicker across the North Island 21 Jan, 2021 12:00 AM 2 minutes to read The North Island experienced a sudden power flicker last night. Photo / File Most of the lower and central North Island experienced the random event around 9.25pm. Thousands reported losing power for a matter of seconds with reports of flickering lights and TVs spontaneously turning off then back on. The event affected the North Island, with people in Whanganui, Wellington, Upper Hutt, Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and Ruapehu reporting the brief loss of power. Advertisement "Who's the idiot ...

overton, in your books, "stealing democracy," what's the voting matrix about? >> guest: there's a movie, "matrix," and basically in that movie, computers are in control, but people think they are in control, but really computers are in control, and i was fascinated by unseen factors that control our live, invisible systems that control our live, and that's how it is really with regard to our election system. we don't think about it. we think that, you know, the people select the politicians, but actually, in fact, this matrix of election laws and systems and regulations, you know, th...