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On The Utility Function Of Future Experiments
At a recent meeting of the board of editors of a journal I am an editor of, it was decided to produce a special issue (to commemorate an important anniversary). As I liked the idea I got carried away a bit, and proposed to write an article for it. In general, writing a scientific article is ...
Did Environmental Working Group Manufacture A Study Just To Sue Quaker Oats?
On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from the organic food companies which fund them) to compile a 'Dirty Dozen list' of foods which contain pesticide residues (100 percent of them) but ...
A New Free Tool For The Optimization Of Muon Tomography
Muon tomography is one of the most important spinoffs of fundamental research with particle detectors -if not the most important. It was realized already some sixty years ago that muons produced in the upper atmosphere by energetic cosmic radiation (protons or light nuclei) constituted a very ...
On Overfitting In Statistics And In Machine Learning
I recently held an accelerated course in "Statistical data analysis for fundamental science" for the Instats site. Within only 15 hours of online lectures (albeit these are full 1-hour blocks, unlike the leaky academic-style hours that last 75% of that) I had to cover not just parameter estimation ...
What Will It Take For Real Farming In Space?
If humans in space are happening any time soon, it will be despite government involvement rather than because of it. NASA couldn't even build a telescope without going 25 years and 1,000 percent over budget. By the time all cultural parties pick away at a manned space program, it will be so expensive ...
Carbon Offsets Won't Work Until There Is Science In How Trees Are Planted
Former Vice-President Al Gore has a giant mansion but buys carbon offsets to mitigate the damage. Do they work?It depends, and that means it is unlikely. Lots of corporations dove into the carbon offset market, Mr. Gore made hundreds of millions of dollars investing in them, but there is no standard ...
New Analysis Adds To The Heat Pump Controversy
Decades before solar and wind took over green marketing dollars, back when environmentalists still promoted natural gas and hydroelectric power, heat pumps became an energy-saving fad.The problem with them became evident nearly as fast as that electric car range you think you'll get - it is only ...
New York City Is Not The Future - Metro Areas With Multiple Hubs Is
New York City makes no sense on paper. It is expensive to get into, expensive to live in, yet crowded and dirty. The heat is overwhelming in the summer while in the winter the wind effect among all those buildings cut can through your parka.There is no way to undo its monocentric development now ...
Why Some Female Whales Live So Long: Menopause
Humans and five whale species are the only mammals known to go through menopause. Why is unclear but a new study sought answers.Scientists found that females of short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales and experience menopause live around 40 years ...
1 In 10 Pregnant Women Who Get COVID-19 May Get A Long Covid Diagnosis
Any long-term effects of COVID-19, which originated in China and became the third coronavirus pandemic of the century, in the general adult population remain unclear. Some clearly have it while others are told it as an undefined blanket term, like fibromyalgia or chronic lyme disease.A new paper ...
Cigarettes Have Long-Term Consequences For The Immune System
Cigarettes are a co-morbidity for almost everything and a risk factor for the rest, but it isn't just first-order disease that may be in the future of cigarette smokers.A cohort of 1,000 healthy volunteers aged 20 to 70 in 2011 were examined to see why human immune systems vary significantly in ...
Seizures Implicated In SIDS And SUDC Deaths
An examination of more than 300 sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, commonly known as SIDS in babies or SUDC in toddlers, including extensive medical record analysis and video evidence donated by families to document the inexplicable deaths ...
It's About Calories, So Kimchi Is Not A Weight Loss Superfood - But You May Eat Less
Fermented foods have become popular in recent years, partly due to their perceived health benefits.For instance, there is some evidence eating or drinking fermented foods can improve blood glucose control in people with diabetes. They can lower blood lipid (fats) levels and blood pressure in people ...
Estradiol Hormone Used During Menopause Linked To Cocaine Addiction
Estradiol is an estrogen hormone used medically during menopause and after hysterectomies to help reduce symptoms such as hot flashes and to prevent osteoporosis (bone loss) in women, but a new paper says it is linked to cocaine addiction.Women are more likely than men to develop an addiction, ...
COVID-19: Healthcare Workers Exited At Dramatically Higher Rates
Like some soldiers become conscientious objectors if they end up in an actual military situation, or when over 300 armed government union employees suddenly forgot they had guns while kids were being murdered in Uvalde, healthcare workers, 18.8 million strong just in the US, were more likely to ...
Safe: In Utero Exposure To Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination
An analysis of 2,261 and 1,940 infants ages 12 and 18 months, respectively, found that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy had no impact on infant neurodevelopment. There was concern about vaccines by pregnant women because American epidemiologists had spent decades promoting the belief ...
Social Media Brings Out Our Baser Natures - Anger Is Rising In Democracies
Like old media such as newspapers and televisions, content on social media is tailored toward audience engagement. Television and newspapers have long known that 'dead bodies sell' but in social media it can be sold in real-time. It has sped up information - and cynicism. Fifteen years ago Reuters ...
Emergency Room Bro Culture Needs To Change Before Millennial Doctors Will Take The Speciality
If a small survey in California is indicative of young physicians nationwide, emergency room culture will need to change for younger residents to have interest.The news comes at a worrisome time. Increased government control of health care has meant plummeting interest in emergency medicine ...
Reduce School Violence By Eliminating Grades, Say Academic Psychologists
One of the few things that can get a government union employee in a mandatory industry like education fired is hitting a student. Yet the link between increased tolerance and less accountability for students has correlated to increased violence by teachers. If there are no repercussions for behavior ...
Sociology: The Illegal Immigration Problem Is Making All Latinos More Stressed
A sociological look at data from 2011-2018 led the authors of a new paper to cite an increase over time in psychological distress among Latinos, including citizens, in the U.S. They cite changes in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was deemed illegal by the courts ...
Plank It: Meta-Analysis Shows Isometric Exercises Help Lower Blood Pressure The Most, By A Lot
Risk factors like salt and sugar intake and high blood pressure for heart attacks and disease need constant rethink if they are going to be more than folk wisdom.Low-salt and sugar-free have too many vested interests to get critical thinking on how valid population-level statistics are for individuals ...
Correlation: Sitting Is Bad For Your Health And Exercise Won't Help
Advances in technology in recent decades have obviated the need and desire for humans to move. Many of the world’s population sit for long periods throughout the day, whether in front of a computer at work or in front of a TV at home. Given that the human body is made to move, all this sitting ...
Losing Weight Can't Cause Cancer But Welcome To Modern Epidemiology
As the century turned, the science community began to become critical of a once-honored field; epidemiology. If you are not familiar with it, it is people who correlate causes to outcomes. They don't show it, they usually are not scientists, but they look for links and then if those look ...
Gender Bias: Both Men And Women Prefer To See Women In Google Image Searches
If Google image search results overwhelmingly returned results showing men, that would be evidence that ending gender bias still has a long way to go. In the bias community, results showing women are the same thing.And the authors of a new paper say female and male gender associations are more ...
Avi Loeb he prolific Harvard astrophysicist, dances on the edge of cosmic controversy. His research... more »
March is here, and with it begins a season of intense travel for me - something which for some... more »
This plant above is what is regarded as a typical fern. However, a quite different looking type... more »
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