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Is this a photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to Apollo Project code that she wrote?
The image below is widely circulated on Facebook:
The caption says:
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to the code she wrote by hand and that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]
Is it true…
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Is this photo of a road detouring around a tree authentic?
This image has been widely shared. It has appeared on my Facebook wall after a recent event in Australia where a sacred tree was chopped down to make way for a new road. It was offered as an example of how it could have been preserved. (For clarity:…
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Do Milankovitch Cycles fully explain climate change?
The Milankovitch Cycles is the effect on the climate caused by variations in astronomical movements by the Earth relative to the Sun.
A recent Natural News article attributes of the recent effects of climate change to Milankovitch Cycles:
For more…
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Are there vaccine ingredients which may not be disclosed ("hidden", "trade secret", or similar)?
I sometimes encounter people claiming that there are ingredients in vaccines that can be kept secret by the manufacturer. I would be surprised to hear this, because the manufacturers have to conduct studies which show that the vaccine is safe. How…
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As of February 2019, were US wages rising at the "fastest pace in decades"?
The President of the USA, Donald Trump, told during his "State of the Union address" speech on 5th February 2019, that
[...] wages in America are rising at the fastest pace in decades
Source: at about 46 minutes on this video from YouTube.
Note…
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Was an elderly woman forcibly euthanized in the Netherlands?
A disturbing story appeared on my news feed this week,
Elderly Woman Forcibly Euthanized
The article says that in the Netherlands an elderly woman with dementia was euthanized against her will.
But this article has come from the DailyWire, a…
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Is the US federal government still paying Civil War survivor benefits?
I read an article claiming that the US federal government is still paying out a Civil War survivor pension today, over 150 years after the Civil War ended. Is this accurate?
In 1924, Mose Triplett, who had served in both the Union and the…
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Could someone who sent a letter in 19th century London expect a reply within 2 hours?
The official QI Twitter account (@qikipedia) today said the following:
If you sent a letter in 19th century London you could expect a reply within 2 hours
Is there any merit to this claim?
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Did Einstein say this quote about war & patriotism?
Can this quote be correctly attributed to Albert Einstein? If so, can we have a source for it?
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him
the spinal…
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Will the healthcare premiums of a 64 year old making $26,500 a year grow to $14,600 under the GOP Health Care Plan?
This picture was posted on the Facebook page, The Other 98%.
Is this really true? Will the premium be more than half of the income of a 64 year old under the proposed new system? And is the old rate true?
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Is this picture of a bent propeller genuine?
This picture has been floating around the internet recently:
Is it a genuine picture or photo-shopped? Or perhaps its some sort of optical illusion similar to the wagon wheel effect?
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Do researchers receive no income from revenues arising from their published papers?
According to this article Meet the Robin Hood of Science (about the creator of a website to bypass paper access restrictions and paywalls),
Elbakyan made a point that will likely come as a shock to many outside
the academic community: Researchers…
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What is the origin of this photo of an unexploded bomb?
The viral image below purports to show three TV screenshots of the same photo of a bomb, with the source of the being attributed to three different sources:
First image: Ukrainian Channel 5. The text translates to "Russia bombs".
Second image:…
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Does fossil fuels use since 1990 account for half of all the fossil fuels used in history?
This recent claim appeared on Twitter:
If you are 29, you’ve been alive when half of all the fossil fuels ever burned throughout all of human history have been burned
The source appears to be an article in PeakProsperity.com. The source makes the…
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Do Ostriches bury their heads in the sand
I have always believed that Ostriches when frightened bury their heads in the sand.
Upon closer re-examination of this belief, I came to the following conclusions:
Ostriches typically live in arid areas.
Arid areas have dry surfaces.
Dry surfaces…
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