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Can You Get a Disease From a Toilet Seat?
Here’s how wary you should be when using a dirty bathroom, and how likely it is that a disease could infect you from the toilet seat.
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Carbon Offsets Aren’t Going to Save Us, We Need Stronger Action
This week, the Albanese government is attempting to reform the safeguard mechanism to try to make it actually cut emissions from our highest polluting industrial facilities. Experts and commentators see Labor’s plan as a cautious, incremental change that doesn’t yet rise to the urgency of the intensifying climate crisis. But it could generate momentum after…
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Lie Detection Tests Are Still Hopelessly Inaccurate
Most methods for detecting lies actually detect signs of stress – which makes them extremely unreliable.
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Your Shower Thoughts, Answered: Where Does Wind Actually Come From?
The short answer is wind happens because the Sun heats some parts of the planet more than others, and this uneven heating starts a wind going. That means wind energy is really a kind of solar energy! All winds are made the same way Wind systems on Earth vary from the global-scale trade winds and…