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Laura Helmuth
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Editor in Chief of Scientific American, @sciam.bsky.social Formerly at Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, Science. Past prez National Association of Science Writers. Birder
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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about ā€œnatural birthā€ and ā€œwomen have been doing this forever without helpā€ need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. Itā€™s been very low (~1ā€“3 per 100,000) ever since.
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Thanks so much! I reported it.

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Thanks so much! I reported it.

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Going to keep saying this until someone important steals it: ā€œVance is running a more neo-Nazi-coded campaign than David Duke did.ā€Going to keep saying this until someone important steals it: ā€œVance is running a more neo-Nazi-coded campaign than David Duke did.ā€

Five Things to Know About J.D. Vance
Five Things to Know About J.D. Vance

GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D.

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Heads up! A new comet is already bright enough to see naked eye and may be a show stopper in a couple of weeks! www.scientificamerican.com/article/will... šŸ”­šŸ§Ŗ

Will Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Be the Brightest of the Year?
Will Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Be the Brightest of the Year?

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could soon shine very bright in Earthā€™s skies

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If you've ever wondered WTF is up with all the attention to UFOs in the past few years, this explains it nicely. It's worth knowing how pseudoscientific thinking spread and grew through mythologists, bad government decisions, credulous media coverage & more šŸ§Ŗ

What Really Happened at the Pentagonā€™s Once-Hidden UFO Office?
What Really Happened at the Pentagonā€™s Once-Hidden UFO Office?

An office in the Pentagon investigated UFOsā€”and the paranormalā€”over a decade ago, segueing into a long saga leading to Congressional hearings and breathless news stories today. But the real story look...

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If i were a political reporter covering jd vance I'd ask him why he paused his Georgia campaigning based on weather predictions by an agency he, as shown in project 2025, wants to gut

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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Editor in Chief of Scientific American, @sciam.bsky.social Formerly at Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, Science. Past prez National Association of Science Writers. Birder
16.8k followers2k following1.2k posts