Offbeat: Pitcher injuries increase as pitch count rises — (Reports)
More than half of high school baseball pitchers report experiencing pain in their throwing arms during the season. To better understand the cause...
Offbeat: Study shows EU pesticide ban failing to protect suburban bees —
Bees living in suburban habitats are still being exposed to significant levels of pesticides despite the EU ban on the use of neonicotinoid...
Offbeat: Ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant...
In China, people breathe air thick with the lung-damaging pollutant ozone two to six times more often than people in the United States,...
Offbeat: Troubling disadvantages, including bias, against women in business, study finds —
Women CEOs in America are paid less, have shorter tenures and their companies are punished in the stock market, even when their firms...
Offbeat: What’s giant panda conservation worth? Billions every year, study shows —
In China, the giant panda is clearly a cultural icon. And yet panda conservation, and the panda itself, is often criticized because of...
Offbeat: Scientists call for better monitoring —
Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian Government that things are looking better for the red apes. In the...
Offbeat: Proportion of deaths that are opioid-related has increased by nearly 300 percent in...
One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is related to opioids, suggests a study led by researchers...
Offbeat: Under time pressure, selfish people act even more selfishly —
When they must act quickly, selfish people are likely to act more selfishly than usual, while pro-social people behave even more pro-socially, a...
Offbeat: Genetics doesn’t matter much in forming society —
Genetics isn't as important as once thought for the evolution of altruistic social behavior in some organisms, a new insight into a decade-long...
Offbeat: Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers —
Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who adopt farming work around ten hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a new study suggests, complicating...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
