First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
A Million-Year-Old Mammoth May Hold The Key...
By Irena Šoljić
What Will It Take For Real Farming In Space?
Up-to-date With The Big Bang, Mass, And Protons
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 35 million tons of plastics... Read >
The Zagros Mountains are nestled in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey... Read >
A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to... Read >
A new Artificial Intelligence analysis of data of ovarian cancer patients... Read >
Gym Bro, Curl Gurl, Gym Rat if you choose not to identify as any gender - everyone... Read >
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KM3NeT: Most Energetic Neutrino In The Universe Detected
The Kilometre Cubic Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) collaboration has reported detection of a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 million billion electron volts) by its ARCA detector. The event, KM3-230213A, is the first evidence that neutrinos of such high energies ...
Unsupervised Tracking
Pattern recognition is an altisonant name to a rather common, if complex, activity we perform countless times in our daily lives. Our brain is capable of interpreting successions of sounds, written symbols, or images almost infallibly - so much so that people like me, who have sometimes trouble ...
Hey AI, Design A Calorimeter For Me
As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve and improve their performance on more and more general tasks, scientists struggle to make the best use of them. The problem is not incompetence - in fact, at least in my field of study (high-energy physics) most of us have grown rather well ...
The Multi-Muon Analysis - A Recollection
As part of the celebrations for 20 years of blogging, I am re-posting articles that in some way were notable for the history of the blog. This time I want to (re)-submit to you four pieces I wrote to explain the unexplainable: the very complicated analysis performed by a group of physicists within ...
Climate Shifts May Bring New Apple Growing Areas
Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their apex status to other areas.The paper in the pay-to-publish journal Environmental Research Letters ...
Epidemiologists Can Link Weedkillers To Your Prostate Cancer Even If You Were Never Exposed
A recent epidemiology paper links common weedkillers to prostate cancer and further claims four of them cause death. Obviously they can't show that, there is no plausible biological mechanism, no increase in prostate cancers, and no evidence any of the people who got prostate cancer had contact ...
Environmentalists Should Embrace 'eDNA' Technology
Once upon a time, environmentalists embraced biotechnology as key way to reduce pesticide use. Rachel Carson, author of "Silent Spring", was a fan of genetic engineering. That was before we all learned that environmental groups are only 'for' something if it means they can raise money being against ...
Knee Point Prediction And Battery Capacity Degradation
Electric cars and solar and wind energy alternative schemes have a few crippling limitations; low energy densities and unavailability when people need energy most. Batteries could help with that second one except current batteries are legacy technology that are held back by subsidies and mandates ...
Yellowstone Wolves: Good For Urban Environmentalists, Bad For Everyone Else
A new analysis claims that crown volume of stream-side shrubs is a key metric for evaluating trophic cascade strength and they attribute the 1,500% increase in a small number of sites to increased numbers of wolves.The data they used were collected from 20 streams during the years 2001 to ...
In Finland, Farmers Are Now Forced To Yell At Geese To Try And Keep Crops From Being Ruined
While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought on by the descendants of eugenicists who had founded "environmental" groups like Sierra Club to promote their beliefs(1), President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
The Protein Signature Of Long Covid In Children Revealed In Lab Tests
"Long Covid", the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that erupted in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread worldwide, causing millions of deaths, is difficult to pin down.Pediatricians report it affects on average 0.5% of children who got the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus ...
Vaccinate Plants Against Insects And Disease
Science is always looking for new ways to protect plants and the environment. In Hawaii, for example, when their staple papaya was under attack by aphids that transferred the "papaya ringspot virus" to plants, legacy breeding and pesticides did not work. A gene gun sending in a GMO did.(1) In the ...
Chocolate Is A Treat - It's Not An 'Antioxidant' Or Anything Except Valentine's Day Candy
Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was funding the Chair in Nutrition at UC Davis when a ...
Hims Telehealth Company Under Fire For Super Bowl Ad
Hims Inc., rebranded as Hims & Hers Health, Inc. after they went public in 2020, began as a telehealth company for erectile dysfunction and hair loss products.No real issue there, the products are well-established and a phone call or website consultation is more convenient and far faster ...
Corporate Media - 'Young People Are Dying' But People Are Actually Healthier Than Ever
Are young people dying off en masse or are predatorts at environmental groups who prey on public gullibility rending their holistic shaman-blessed hemp garments because a wave of improving public health has spread across America?'People are dying' is just a headline to grab eyeballs. More accurate ...
Cardiac Medication Digoxin Off Label Reduces Risk Of Breast Cancer Metastases
While off-label uses of medication may be controversial in political media, in science and health they lead to important gains. A new example is the cardiac disease drug digoxin used at a low and safe dosage for one week for nine patients with metastatic breast cancer.The number of cancer cells ...
Anti-Science Epidemiologists Have A New Friend In Government
In September, epidemiologists out to scare people about homeopathic - "detectable" - levels of pesticides published a paper hoping to get journalists promoting fear and doubt about agriculture.Being the opposition to science in academia is a good place to be. They can get a publication to check ...
3 Pro-Science Action Items For EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed former Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Though the Trump administration has promised reform, there will be big challenges in that. Though high-profile jobs are appointees, the nuts-and-bolts work of governance is done by career ...
Two Fewer Almonds: That's All You Need To Prevent Weight Gain
When people see labels or menus listing the calories in their food, it doesn't change their consumption in any way beyond what experts call "statistical wobble." About two fewer almonds worth of calories per meal. But two almonds over time can add up to a lot.That's the conclusion in the data of ...
Brits Associate Accents With Crime But Trust Scottish Accents Most
With Burns Night this weekend, Scotland will celebrate its heritage. In the First Among Equals country to the south that controls them, Scottish accents used to mean trouble. Now, it is the sound of safety for both English men and women.A new study finds that the English, even some Welsh ...
Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor
Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few years later, epidemiologists inside the once ...
My Most Important Column Ever
This column deals with political opposition, resistance, and the
future of the nation. It dissects the Trump-Musk financial bromance and
the role of VP Vance. Bear with me to its end, then please comment pro,
con, or in between.
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When Told Lower Incomes Mean Less School Funding, College Students Become More Liberal
So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually anyone who arrives legally can start a business with little problem and get rich.A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but more things are free for the poor. They're ...
Lessons, Advice, And Reflections On Editing A Scholarly Book
In 2023, I bit the bullet by signing a
book contract with Springer to work on a difficult compilation of scientific
misconduct and problematic science publishing practice. It was planned as an
edited book that required expert contributors of the field to write chapters on
the various topics ...
Back in December 2024, astronomers caught wind of something unusual—a small, fast-moving rock... more »
This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture... more »
Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing... more »
March is here, and with it begins a season of intense travel for me - something which for some... more »
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