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Summer is hurricane season, which seems far away right now. But it never hurts to be prepared, because hurricanes do more than devastate the landscape–they’re bad for pregnant women and their unborn children as well. Exposure to hurricanes can cause significant adverse fetal distress risks and can lead to longer-term health care problems for affected children. These risks contribute previously hidden human and economic costs to the impacts of severe hurricanes.
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During the football playoffs, we began to wonder how humans, unlike any other species on Earth, learned to throw long distances. New research suggests that this unique evolutionary trait is entangled with language development in a way critical to our very existence. In fact, throwing made us human.
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It isn’t just war in the Sudan that is tearing apart Africa, it’s earthquakes as well. Cracks began to be seen years ago, but it recent months they’ve increased, meaning that the continent is breaking apart in slow motion.

On the Before it’s News website, Axel Bojanowski quotes geologist Cynthia Ebinger as saying, "The volcano was bubbling over; flaming-red lava was shooting up into the sky." The fissures began appearing years ago. But in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. Researchers say that lava in the region is consistent with magma normally seen on the sea floor — and that water will ultimately cover the desert.
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If a star were to explode near the Earth, we would be hit with millions of deadly particles and cosmic rays, causing mass extinctions due to the high radiation of cosmic rays, which strips away our planet’s protective ozone layer. Astronomers think this happens about every 60 million years (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
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