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Something Happened In Silicon Valley
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By Mark Pierce
An old adage goes that 'if life gives you lemons, make lemonade', which basically... Read >
When most people think of hurricanes, they imagine winds gusting over 100 miler... Read >
The discovery of the Denisovans 15 years ago set off a chain of evolutionary... Read >
Diets high in phytosterols, such as vegetarian diets, have long been linked... Read >
Processed and
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University of Southern Denmark recently demonstrated a soft robot capable of... Read >
Bubbles In Ice Could Be A Future Medium For Secret Codes
Scholars have developed a method to encode binary and Morse code messages in ice. A 'message in a bubble' has limited practical utility, information storage in Antarctica and the Arctic is expensive but less challenging than storing message in ice, but they are more covert than paper documents ...
Isoprene: Plants Can Make Their Own Pesticide But The Environmental Cost Is High
As the developed world becomes more removed from science and health, it is easier to embrace beliefs that science and medicine are not needed at all, with some claiming that vaccines and pesticides are not really needed, the natural world can do it without modern tools.Companies will cater to that ...
With New Acceptance Of Vaccines, The Left Needs To Rethink Pesticides Next
A few short years ago, the western left - America and Europe - had a holy trinity of things they opposed; medicine, food, and energy. There is no hope for energy, even 100% higher electricity rates in places like Germany and California won't get them to budge from insisting solar and wind are viable ...
Win A MSCA Post-Doctoral Fellowship!
Applications for MSCA Post-doctoral fellowships are on, and will be so until September 10 this year. What that means is that if you have less than 8 years of experience after your Ph.D., you can pair up with a research institute in Europe to present a research plan, and the European Commission ...
Meta-Analysis: Flower Strips With Two Or More Species May Reduce Pesticides
A new paper has found that flower strips along fields and ditches may be more than just a gimmick that lets people feel like they are improving the environment or saving bees. They may attract pests that eat pests that eat crops.If so, this could help Europe, which has declared it wants to reduce ...
The Way To Finally Make Organic Farming Sustainable Is To Allow Modern Gene Editing
The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern gene editing. The only way Europe can reach the goal of 25% Organic™ farmland that its government-funded environmental groups demand, a 250% increase, is by moving into the 21st ...
Climate Change Implicated In Teen Pregnancy
Young women are at at increased risk of school dropout, transactional sex, gender-based violence, and early pregnancy, leading authors of a new paper to declare climate change a public health emergency rather than just an environmental issue.The authors received anecdotes from 297 participants ...
Pesticides: Environmental Threat Or Anti-Science Populism?
With former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dictating a lot of science policy for the Trump administration, anti-science activists have been quietly cheering even though they uniformly voted for his opposition.They need a win. Claims that bees are dying off have been ...
The Lizard Poop Of Madagascar
Some 88 million years ago, Madagascar broke off from India.Isolated from all other landmasses, plants and animals evolved in seclusion, creating a biodiversity hotspot unlike anywhere else on Earth. One way biodiversity spreads is by endozoochory, which is the process name for animals eating plant ...
Chinese Researchers Are Rewiring Brains Using Interfaces
Human evolution and culture have been shaped by our increasing ability to communicate. A new review from China believes that brain-computer interfaces mark the next leap: a direct connection between mind and machine. They note breakthroughs in neural signal decoding, AI, and bioengineering but ...
A Decline In Financial Skills May Be A Harbinger Of Alzheimer’s
It is a time-honored tradition for the young to ridicule the old and vice-versa but some warning signs in the elderly may be serious. Elderly people are often financially savvy, and get more so with age - unless Alzheimer’s begins to set in, according to a new paper.Scholars analyzed existing ...
The 'Still Explosions' Of Lichens On Stone
Lichens on stone, those “still explosions” as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, which is remarkable when you consider how commonplace they are. It seems these ecologically and culturally significant whatever-they-ares unfairly fall victim to something ...
Taurine’s Anti-Aging Hype Takes A Hit In Rigorous New Study
A new study is pouring cold water on the idea that taurine – a nutrient found in the body and in foods – is a magic bullet for aging. Researchers led by Maria Emilia Fernandez at the U.S. National Institute on Aging found that taurine levels in blood do not reliably decline with age in humans ...
Cancer Is Killing Fewer Americans Than Ever
The science and medical response to activists claims that drinking water, weedkillers, and food coloring are killing people is to ask, where are the dead bodies?They were there because those don't cause cancer, any more than manufacturing a PM2.5 air quality standard 30 years ago saves any lives ...
Remote Health Care Messaging Is Increasing Physician Burnout
Telehealth, replies to messages or a quick video consulation with a health care provider, are designed to save time for everyone and reduce costs.It may also be causing greater rates of physician burnout, according to a recent paper. Female physicians seem to be impacted most, according to ...
Protein Is Key To Helping Older People Prevent Muscle Injuries
More and more people over the age of 50 are taking up physical exercise. Medical associations resoundingly agree that this is a good thing. Physical exercise is not only key to disease prevention, it is also a recommended part of treatment for many illnesses.However, starting to move at this stage ...
Humans Have Always Adapted To Changing Climates - It's Why We Conquered The World
In the Cradles of Civilization, there are entire cities covered in sand that were once thriving places. The climate shifted and humans did with it. One of our greatest cultural achievements has been our ability to adapt to a natural world that is out to destroy and rebuild everything, including ...
Social Media Addiction Behavior, Not Time, Is A Harbinger Of Young Mental Health
Screen time is a concern for parents and mental health advocates but looking at screen time may be treating the symptom rather than the disease. What is a true harbinger for risk of mental health problems is addictive behavior in young people.National surveys have documented rising screen use but ...
Yelling Fascism Is The Fashion, But The Left Is Actually Less Diverse
If you think you are in a totalitarian regime because the US President federalized National Guard troops, you may need to get a little more intellectual diversity. An experiment instead showed that those on the right are more likely to look into the facts and learn that federalizing the National ...
Editorial: This Week’s LA Non-riots
A Facebook friend opined that Los Angeles protesters could “turn LA into another Portland.” I expand for you my rejoinder to his post:No, this is much more about Trump exercising power, than about undocumenteds in LA (an issue which, to be real, didn’t bother people very much until 47 made ...
Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling
In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill' - a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return - wanted to keep their success.Some environmental groups, like Public Interest Research Group, supported state ...
Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert
Over 40 years ago, President Ronald Reagan, the most pro-science president of the 20th century, proposed a lot of bold initiatives. A Superconducting Super Collider was one goal, a big boost for government funding of basic research was another, and he also laid out a Strategic Defense Initiative ...
Climate Entrepreneurship And IT
I learned a lot last week by listening to the New Mexico Tech Talks https://www.linkedin.com/company/nm-tech-talks/, and by participating in a related podcast https://lnkd.in/gP8mciQS. Learnings about entrepreneurs’ climate initiatives, about modern software development and AI, and ...
Social Media Savvy: Democrats Request Community Notes On Twitter Twice As Often?
Disinformation and misinformation are common tactics and in the 2008 they entered the social media realm. Senator Barack Obama came from behind to overtake Senator Hillary Clinton to secure the Democratic nomination and then used the 100% greater funding he got by reneging on his promise to limit ...
Astronomy, it seems, finds itself at the mercy of political caprice and economic machinations yet... 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 »
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