Whitney Tipton Republish Reprint House Democrats on Monday set aside $50 million in their initial labor, health and education bill to study gun violence, ending a 20-year congressional hold on the subject. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will split the money to study firearm injury…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett For the seventh time, a government agency has contradicted claims made by environmentalists and found hydraulic fracturing doesn’t pose a grave threat to drinking water. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published a study Wednesday that examined 116 water wells across the energy-rich regions of Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr A daily regimen of marijuana for elderly individuals may boost cognitive function, slow the onset of dementia and generally improve their memory. Andreas Zimmer, a researcher at the University of Bonn in Germany, led a study looking at the effects of marijuana extracts on the cognitive functioning…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A new study published in the highly influential journal Nature suggests rising global temperatures during the 19th and 20th centuries may be linked to greater plant photosynthesis, reports the Blaze. Researchers estimated based on models that “the sum of all plant photosynthesis on Earth grew by 30 percent…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman People who use the internet more often are less likely to be politically divided, contradicting the popular belief that the web definitively perpetuates polarization, according to a new study. Trying to decipher what is exactly causing the apparent growing schism in contemporary politics, researchers at Stanford University…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman A new study backs up increasingly available data that humans are falling victim to phantom vibration syndrome system at a shockingly high rate. Over 80 percent of college students experienced the phenomenon of thinking that their mobile phone was ringing or vibrating, according to a study by researchers at the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The push by U.S. regulators to crush the electronic cigarette industry may be slowing in the wake of a joint study with researchers from the United Kingdom revealing that switching to vaping considerably cuts health risks. “You had researchers from both countries and the CDC involved in…
By Amber Randall A report released by a Republican senator Tuesday reveals the U.S. government spent over $800,000 to investigate monkey drool. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake published the “Wastebook: PORKemon Go,” which highlights 50 examples of government waste that cost taxpayers approximately $5 billion. One such waste was the taxpayer-funded study of monkey drool…
by Kevin Batts The chances of you being killed by an illegal immigrant terrorist in the United States is 1 in 10.9 billion per year. This is according to a new study by Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy analyst for the Cato Institute. The study which looked at terrorism committed by immigrants is touted as the…
Facts are important. No matter how we feel about a particular issue, it is important to weigh all available facts as objectively as possible. A black economist from Harvard decided to do just that; spending more than 3,000 hours combing through police reports and statistics with his team. However, the results surprised him. Professor Roland…