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Researchers have retrieved samples of 1.4 billion-year-old air from ancient crystals and found something surprising about a supposedly “boring” time period. The team studied the gases and fluids locked in halite crystals (rock salt) from Canada, shedding light on the composition of the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs walked the Earth. It turns out the planet was sporting more oxygen than expected—at least, in that exact moment in time—as they explained in a study published last month in PNAS. Direct samples of air “The carbon dioxide measurements Justin obtained have never been done before,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s...

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, many people have been trying home-made remedies to boost their immunity. In a recent video, it was claimed that two drops of lemon in the nose could “completely kill” the coronavirus in the body. The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has shared a post about this viral video, saying that there was no scientific basis to the claim.

Y'all The drive by truckers had a song (never gonna change) that went... Daddy used to empty out his shotgun shells, Fill 'em fulla black eyed peas. Aim real low at your feet and your ankles, And rip right through your knees Does anybody have any first hand experience with loading shotgun shells with black eyed peas? How about loading shotgun shells with rock salt? What kind of rock salt do you use? What is the effective radius of a rock salt load? Anybody ever used black eyed peas, pinto beans, anything like that for a .12 ga load? I...