{"id":1265,"date":"2015-07-28T23:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2015-07-28T23:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T05:38:59","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"SCIENCE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a few interesting science-related links.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has determined that about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/jul\/23\/genes-influence-academic-ability-across-all-subjects-latest-study-shows\">60% of differences in academic performance are due to genetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been known for some time that there&#8217;s a positive correlation between intelligence and lifespan. Now, they&#8217;ve determined <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ije.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2015\/07\/24\/ije.dyv112.long\">that link is also genetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to have seen links to the original data sources documenting this <a href=\"http:\/\/realclimatescience.com\/2015\/07\/mind-blowing-temperature-fraud-at-noaa\/\">climate change fraud<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve been reading this website off-and-on for a few years, and it seems pretty reliable. There <em>is<\/em> a link in the comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/img\/climate\/research\/ushcn\/ts.ushcn_anom25_diffs_urb-raw_pg.gif\">this graph at NOAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EM Drive has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/independent-scientists-confirm-that-the-impossible-em-drive-produces-thrust\">independently verified to produce thrust<\/a>, although nobody can explain how yet. If this is real, this is big &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen claims of 4 hours to the moon, 70 days to Mars, and a year-and-a-half to Pluto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a few interesting science-related links. A new study has determined that about 60% of differences in academic performance are due to genetics. It&#8217;s been known for some time that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}