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So, everyone knows about the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, throughout the 1840's, which had such an dire impact on Ireland's population. I was thinking- what would have happened if the British had followed their own establised precedent, and had dealt with the Potato Famine in the same manner...

So, I was looking at a new researchers paper on HIV/Aids, and it turns out that the transmission of the virus to humans happened far, far earlier. While the first documented case of HIV infecting a human only happened in 1959, tracing of the HIV genome itself indicates that the first outbreak of...