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By Irena Šoljić
As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve and improve their performance... Read >
The Zagros Mountains are nestled in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey... Read >
If you read almost any science blog other than mine, you're probably aware... Read >
A new Artificial Intelligence analysis of data of ovarian cancer patients... Read >
In September, epidemiologists out to scare people about homeopathic - "detectable"... Read >
For convenience, let’s say it started with Photoshop. That program made it... Read >
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 ...
Chemical Looping Plastic And CO2: Science Even Environmental Groups Can't Hate
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 35 million tons of plastics are generated just in America, and 12.% of that becomes is garbage like plastic containers and bags and even appliances.Sorry folks, politicians in states like California who insist it's being recycled are lying ...
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 ...
Trump Administration Authorizes $100 Million For New Vaccine Research
In its second year, Avian Influenza has wrecked the U.S. poultry industry and caused egg prices to rise sharply. A month into a new presidential term, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has been given $1 billion to get the problem under control.Hundreds of millions fewer chickens mean ...
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 ...
Marijuana's Impact On Working Memory Revealed In Brain Scans
A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working memory task, while 68% of recent users also ...
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 ...
Female Physicians 50% More Likely To Commit Suicide
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have revealed an alarming trend: female physicians were 53% more likely to commit suicide than females in the general population. Women are still only 25% of physician suicides, men are 80% of doctors who kill themselves, and the obvious risk factor ...
Scientization Of Politics: Seed Oils Are The Latest Nocebo Fad
You may suddenly have read a lot about the dangers of seed oils - e.g. sunflower and canola oil - and wonder why this is just being discovered. The harms weren't recently discovered, they've still never been discovered. They're not harmful so nothing has changed except the demographic criticizing ...
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 ...
Gym Paradox: People Want To Get Healthier But Until They're Healthier Don't Feel Comfortable
Gym Bro, Curl Gurl, Gym Rat if you choose not to identify as any gender - everyone knows what it means, and it can be pretty intimidating if you walk into a fitness center as a new member. Imagine feeling like you have to get in shape before you can join a gym to get in shape.Fitness executives ...
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 ...
Recent observations have virtually eliminated any concern about an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4... 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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