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The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
A few short years ago, the western left - America and Europe - had a holy trinity... Read >
Young women are at at increased risk of school dropout, transactional... Read >
In 1943 the eminent physicist Erwin Schrodinger gave a series of lectures in... Read >
According to the FDA, a drug is a substance (other than nutrients) intended... Read >
Chicago Sun-Times writer Marco Buscaglia used the popular LLM ChatGPT... Read >
During my long trip to South America, which just ended (leaving me fighting... Read >
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 ...
Lemons To Lemonade Is Like Soda Cans To Hydrogen
An old adage goes that 'if life gives you lemons, make lemonade', which basically means turn something negative into something positive. Pollution is bad but a new study shows that it may some day be a net win for energy.Like solar panels and quantum computing, hydrogen has been 'ready real ...
NEW: Infuzide Shows Promise Against Multidrug Resistant Pathogens
There is no balance of nature and never has been, the universe is always looking for new ways to kill and create, which is why pathogens evolve resistance to drugs over time. It is estimated that antimicrobial resistance causes over 1,000,000 deaths each year and is involved in 35,000,000 more ...
Egyptian Blue, The World's Oldest Synthetic Pigment, Gets Recreated
Anti-science activists have been in a war on food coloring for decades, and with one of their own having power in the new presidential administration, have even banned some, but artificial dyes have been used in many products for millennia.The world's oldest known synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...
Hurricanes: Water, Not Wind, Is Deadliest
When most people think of hurricanes, they imagine winds gusting over 100 miler per hour, but water has been responsible for 86 percent of all direct hurricane and tropical storm fatalities in the United States for almost this entire century.Floods, rip currents, and storm surges are the big risk ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pathogens, Pests And Perils In Global Food Security
In wealthy countries, the richest and the aspirational well-off can afford to pay extra for food only grown using toxic pesticides they are assured are healthy for the planet, but the 99.99999% have to think about affordability.Every time a chemical is removed due to manufactured outrage by environmental ...
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 ...
Phytosterols In Vegetarian Diets Linked To Lower Risk Of Diabetes
Diets high in phytosterols, such as vegetarian diets, have long been linked to lower risk of heart disease and diabetes by lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol but food surveys, questionnaires, and diaries are not reliable enough to make clinical determinations while in mouse experiments ...
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 ...
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 ...
WISEcode: Psychologist Proposes A New Way To Exempt Processed Foods From Harm Claims
Processed and
Ultra-Processed™
foods have been heavy-rotation buzzwords in the food activist community since the Obama administration but gained increased attention once the Trump administration came into power and a chief evangelist against modern food, former Natural Resources Defense Council ...
Does Ecology Have A Cultural Cancer?
A new paper argues that academic ecology is culturally corroded. 'Stay in your lane', 'do you want to die on that hill?' and other territorial and undermining behavior were reported by 44% of predominantly ecologists who responded to a survey. They say it was most common as graduate students ...
Who Paid For Prostitutes First, The Human Or The Monkey? The Chen Paper Turns 20
It is often joked that 'prostitution was the first profession' and, that it is not a profession aside, the sentiment may be true. Someone with a lot of food and the ability to prevent it being taken may have worked out a deal with someone who had no food but willingness to satisfy a different basic ...
Soft Robot With Inflatable Actuators And Kirigami Skin Debuts
University of Southern Denmark recently demonstrated a soft robot capable of navigating complex terrains using a combination of inflatable actuators and a patterned "kirigami" skin, all moving via rectilinear motion.You probably think it looks like a worm and it can certainly go places only small ...
For World No Tobacco Day, NFL Biosciences Wants You To Buy Their Tobacco Product
NFL Biosciences is has a Marketing Authorization Application for a smoking cessation technique derived from an allergen treatment in the 1970s that has been quietly used as an unauthorized smoking cessation tool for 10 years. A lot like vaping pens were before the Obama administration tried to ...
Legal American Owners Don't Create Gun Epidemics, Smuggling By Mexican Drug Cartels Does
Illegal firearm trafficking is inseparable from the illegal drug trade: Weapons are often bought with drug money, can strengthen cartels and can be traded for drugs.In the spring of 2021, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, known as ATF, started a gun-trafficking investigation ...
RIP Richard Garwin, 'The Only True Genius' Fermi Ever Met
Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only true genius” ...
According to observations made by NASA using the James Webb Space Telescope, there is a three point... 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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