Something Happened In Silicon Valley
The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
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By Mark Pierce
First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
A preambleSubnuclear physics obeys the laws of quantum mechanics,
which are... Read >
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s rumored retreat on fracking shows just how... Read >
FDA-approved flu treatments target viral enzymes of influenza but the virus... Read >
Death rates from non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes... Read >
How can companies get the best possible performance out of their employees... Read >
John Hunter had a gift for dissection. As a child he was an unexceptional student... Read >
How Synthetic Pumpkin Spice Took Fall Away From Organic Apples
In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed and both Tesla and LinkedIn were founded. Those were all interesting but not revolutionary; cars and job sites already existed, and we knew a lot about DNA, we just didn't have a complete "map" of a genome.The biggest shift in culture was the introduction ...
Searching For Impossibly Rare Decays
I recently ran into a description of the Mu3e experiment, and got curious about it and the physics it studies. So after giving it a look, I am able to explain that shortly here - I think it is a great example of how deep our studies of particle physics are getting; or, on the negative side, how ...
A Remarkable Graph: The Full Dalitz Plot Of Neutron Decay
The neutron is a fascinating particle, and one which has kept experimental physicists busy for almost a century now. Discovered by James Chadwick in 1932 in a cunning experiment which deserves a separate post (it is a promise, or a threat if you prefer), the neutron has been all along a protagonist ...
Now For Something New Around Uranus
There us something new to talk about around Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun. Uranus is a “sideways planet” due to its extreme axial tilt, and the ice giant owes its cyan-color to a deep atmosphere composed of hydrogen, helium and methane. And it has moons. Lots of moons. ...
How The Ancient Volcanoes Of Ultima Thule Impacted Climate Then And Now
Some sixty million years ago a fountain of hot rock that rises from Earth’s core-mantle boundary unleashed volcanic activity across a vast area of the North Atlantic, from Scotland to Greenland. We can detect the effects in spectacular basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland.But why ...
Why The French Get Grumpy When It's Warmer
The French look at not owning air conditioning as a point of pride, and it may have made them so grumpy it explains why they passed laws saying no one can install it unless they get permission from their neighbors, and perhaps even the city or prefecture government.They can talk about mitigating ...
How European Forests May Look By The Year 2100
A new computer simulation says that climate change may may ruin the tall beech trees common in Europe. Unfortunately, many other simulations already said it was too late to curb runaway emissions by India and China as of 2016.For the last 2,000 years, the area from southern Sweden to central France ...
USDA Results Show Science Can Feed The World If Governments Get Out Of The Way
Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for government-mandated sterilization and abortion to prevent it.(1)Science didn't buy into the doomsday narrative and the poor have benefited.Rather than the world ...
Human Exceptionalism In Evolution: How We Walked Upright
One key hallmark of being human is walking on two legs. It was a seismic shift seen in no other primates. Like much of evolution, it happened in fits and starts. The 4.4 million year-old Ardipithecus of Ethiopia was a tree climber with a grasping toe that would walk upright 3.2 million ...
No Sense Of Smell? Try Radio Waves
We usually associate smell with bad things, like body odors or fire or a gas leak, but a keen sense of smell helps us enjoy food and other pleasures in life. Many things cause loss of smell; aging is number one, but also brain injuries and loss of smell was a common complaint about COVID-19 infections ...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease May Accelerate Dementia
You have probably heard the phrase “follow your gut” – often used to mean trusting your instinct and intuition. But in the context of the gut-brain axis, the phrase takes on a more literal meaning. Scientific research increasingly shows that the brain and gut are in constant, two-way communication ...
RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects.Kennedy has claimed that mRNA vaccines “encourage new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics” ...
None Of Us See The Same Colors But Our Brains See Some Things In Common
Colors trigger unique brain responses, the subjective nature of our brains and eyes, not to mention different media, is why a famous blue dress experiment took countries by storm.To try and help determine how different people have the same brain responses to colors, researchers measured color ...
40% Of Advanced Cancer Patients Are Ignored On Their Care Goals
Advanced cancer often brings preparation for the worst and proponents of the modern health care system use terms like "advocate" and "empowered" when everyone who isn't part of the system knows patients have trouble doing the former and certainly are not the latter.Government, health insurers, ...
What To Do If The Dog Gets Into Your Cocaine
Cocaine toxicosis in animals is a real thing. You shouldn't do cocaine, even during the Biden administration it didn't become legal and it's more dangerous than that kratom people buy in a gas station. Drug dealers secretly despise their customers so it could adulterated with lots of bad things ...
New Vaccine For 21 Strains Of Pneumococcal Disease
A new international, randomized clinical trial is evaluating a vaccine developed to protect against 21 strains of pneumococcus, up from the current 13 strains covered now. That means greater protection to babies against the common infection that causes pneumonia, sinusitis and meningitis.Pneumococcal ...
Deontological Decisions: Your Mother Tongue Never Leaves You
Ιf you asked a multilingual friend which language they find more emotional, the answer would usually be their mother tongue – the one they used while growing up and probably still use at home. This does not mean they are incapable of expressing emotion in another language, but there is a clear ...
Trust As Commodity: How Ukraine Public Services Keep Going During War
Three years into war with Russia and martial law, public services continue to operate and citizens continue to have confidence in them. A new analysis of survey results in Government information Quarterly says trust in public figures and a sense of cooperation are key factors.The surveys were conducted ...
Prenatal Depression May Be A Sign Of Privilege
New survey results find that sociocultural factors may be involved in how likely someone is to report moderate to severe depression symptoms and get a prenatal depression diagnosis.The differences across racial and ethnic groups and maternal nativity were evident in the cross-sectional study ...
Yankeedom, New France, Left Coast: 'Wellness' Is Regional And Based On Which Europeans Settled There
People in the northeast of the United States think they have greater "wellness" than everywhere else except California. People in the southern United States think they have more wellness than everywhere else.Which is right? They both are. Wellness may be in social media ad campaigns and have diets ...
Bringing Technology Home
One of my institute’s projects is gaining too little traction with its target city. No surprise: The project is expensive, heavy on newer smart infrastructure, and this U.S. city is in the middle of a budgeting round. It’s evident to all, though, that the new infrastructure is critical to maintaining ...
Knucklehead Democrats
"Knucklehead" and “Wimp” were the toss-up for titling today’s column.A few Democrat politicians are almost heroic as they respond to the current sh*tshow in Washington: Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Reich, JB Pritzker, Melanie Stansbury, AOC, and even Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin ...
So Good Badminton Banned It: The Spin Serve Gets A CFD Analysis
In all racket sports, a well-executed serve can establish a real advantage. Badminton is played by around 220 million people across the globe and a“spin serve” took badminton by storm when a Danish player at the Polish Open 2023 badminton tournament used it to dominant effect. Like in table ...
How Trump Is Making Taiwan Safe(r)
Let’s write a letter to Donald Trump. Trigger warning: Lots of sarcasm here.
Not-so-dear Don,
Well, Don, those “sh**hole” countries are not “eating” the tariffs as ...
As a member of the public, how can you determine whether Tylenol, also known as acetaminophen,... more »
Air India Flight 171 - Ask The expertsAn open letter to H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., Chairman and Chief... more »
In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same... 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 »
