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Isn't there plenty of O_2 indoors also?

The US/Allies were fine with the March 1917 revolution--the Karenski government kept shooting American/Allied bullets with American/Allied guns against the Germans on the eastern f…

Iron ore has no appreciable carbon in it before it enters the blast furnace.

The coke that is mixed with the iron ore is the coke that heats the furnace. As the coke (carbon) reacts with oxygen, some of the carbon monoxide then strips oxygen from the iron o…

"Blast furnaces do not need fuel to create iron" Blast furnaces need fuel to raise the temperature of the blast furnace input to speed up stripping what becomes slag and the oxygen…

"In the main approach to steelmaking today, iron oxide is placed into a blast furnace with coke, a hard, porous substance derived from coal... This and other steps in the process p…

And the North Korean doctors missed the injuries _hours_ after he hung himself? The guards hid the noose? The doctors would only miss the injuries if they were being told to miss t…

How can a person hang themselves without leaving bruises? Without ligature marks? Is he some kind of ninja?

The author dedicates a full section to a possible attempt at suicide. However, he doesn't even try to correlate that with the physical examinations. How does one go braindead in a …

This is a bizarre statement. It was Trump claiming that the boy had been tortured and beaten.

Nearing the summation, the author uncritically quotes a "senior-level American official." --"The North Koreans have never tortured a white guy physically. Never.” Earlier in the ar…

There is a more pressing reason that has pushed farmers to continually buy new equipment. Farm credit services pressures farmers into this practice. When giving out a loan for oper…