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  • Your Excuses For Eating Meat Are Predictable And Wrong, Study Finds....Oof, right in the cognitive dissonance.

    07/01/2024 12:38:21 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 88 replies
    IFL Science ^ | June 04, 2024 | DR. KATIE SPALDING
    People also often try to simply change the topic of conversation. Image credit: zeljkodan/Shutterstock.com ================================================================== Eating too much meat is bad for you, bad for the environment, and fatal for the animals involved. Those are straight facts, indisputable and proven through years of study. But counterpoint: have you considered that vegans are annoying? If the comments section under just about any media promoting a vegetarian or vegan diet is anything to go by, the answer to that question is probably “yes”. And, in any case, what about all the poor plants, huh? You okay with murdering them, IFLScience? The blood...
  • Ancient Solar Storm Reveals Vikings Were In North America Exactly 1,000 Years Ago

    07/28/2022 2:35:32 PM PDT · by Chuckster · 56 replies
    IFL Science ^ | Oct 20, 2021 | DR. KATIE SPALDING
    Most estimates have relied heavily on information gleaned from Icelandic sagas, but since these were only written down centuries after the fact and talk about things like glittery one-footed assassins, researchers have wisely taken them with a grain of salt.But the new study, published today in the journal Nature, has pinpointed the Viking presence in North America to an exact year: 1021