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Electric Cars Hand Honda Their First Loss in 70 Years

Electric Cars Hand Honda Their First Loss in 70 Years

Mar 15 2026 | comment(s)

Communist dictator-funded social activists are scrambling to do damage control again after Honda has followed GM, Hertz, and many others in declaring a giant loss due to their electric car business.

Because they assumed that every future President would be like Joe Biden and continue to mandate and subsidize it. That didn't happen. The Trump team surprised a lot of people by winning again in 2024 and while some of the decisions made by his employees have been opposed to legitimate science and health, he was not wrong on solar and electric cars.

Paid flaks kept saying electric cars are taking over the world, solar powering it was surpassing "fossil" fuels(1), it was cheaper than conventional energy, and better for the environment.
Weekend Science: Why Don't Young People Want To Date?

Weekend Science: Why Don't Young People Want To Date?

Mar 13 2026 | comment(s)

Younger man, Generation Z according to marketing groups who invent new generations every 10 years, have a lot less interest in dating than in years past.

It could be that they feel besieged in culture. When sociologists blame the "Johnny Bravo" cartoon, which caricatured masculinity by having him get dunked on by women every episode, for toxic masculinity, you know we have a cultural militancy problem.


Rosie The Riveter Was Born On This Day In 1920 - Or Not

Rosie The Riveter Was Born On This Day In 1920 - Or Not

Mar 12 2026 | comment(s)

Rosie The Riveter was born on this day in 1920.

Well, one of them.

And maybe on this day. All of those diet claims about centenarians and their lifestyles could be suspect if so many are fraud or clerical error the data are meaningless. No one is even sure when Rose Will Leigh, the original archetype for "Rosie the Riveter", was born.

The B-24 Liberator bomber consisted of 450,000 parts held together by 360,000 rivets of 550 different sizes. It weighed 18 tons. During World War II, Henry Ford's Willow Run plant in Michigan produced 8,685 of them, thanks to 42,000 employees working around the clock.
For Cancer, Alternative Medicine Is The Same As Doing Nothing

For Cancer, Alternative Medicine Is The Same As Doing Nothing

Mar 04 2026 | comment(s)

Medicine works. When progressives insisted Science Is A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy it was dumb. Vani Hari and Joe Mercola, DO, and the rest jumping on the MAHA train and claiming Science Is A Left Wing Conspiracy (enjoy endorsing glyphosate you two!) is still dumb.

Because facts are real.
Valentine’s Day Psychology: The Pet Name Your Date Is Most Likely To Hate Is...

Valentine’s Day Psychology: The Pet Name Your Date Is Most Likely To Hate Is...

Feb 07 2026 | comment(s)

Valentine's Day is when the social sciences get to shine. It's when people revisit things about the science of kissing (kissing is good, unless it's bad) by anthropologists like Dr.
Gen Z Likes To Flirt With AI Versions Of Themselves

Gen Z Likes To Flirt With AI Versions Of Themselves

Jan 28 2026 | comment(s)

A  recent survey of 2,000 Americans aged 18-28 wanted to get insights on how "AI" Large Language Models are shaping behavior. 
More Meat, Less Carbs, And No Raw Milk - The New Dietary Guidelines Are Better Than Expected

More Meat, Less Carbs, And No Raw Milk - The New Dietary Guidelines Are Better Than Expected

Jan 10 2026 | comment(s)

In 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt instructed his US Department of Agriculture to create a set of nutrition guidelines for a population that was gaining increased access to more foods, thanks to railways, but were more and more often in cities.

Wilbur Olin Atwater, Ph.D., did just that, and it was great, and we could have stopped there. Yet that is not the way of government. His recommendations were entirely sensible. Think about calories first. Eat meat and vegetables, limit fatty and carbohydrate foods. It was immensely popular but popularity breeds jealousy and now a desire by scholars to 'make their mark on history' and feel proud they have changed the world every five years.
Christmas Gift Book Reviews - Clay By Franck Bouysse

Christmas Gift Book Reviews - Clay By Franck Bouysse

Dec 12 2025 | comment(s)

Lard wasn't that long ago. Given the renewed prevalence of Health Whisperers, those progressive forms of trad wives who fetishize the ancient ways and call soup "bone broth", it is probably an alternative sold at high cost to people who also buy raw milk.

For my father, lard was a way of life. Bread made in my grandmother's kitchen with lard and salt and pepper was his school lunch. That wasn't bleak to him, he didn't go to therapy about it, it was just his life. We were poor when I was a child, below the poverty line most of the time, but not as poor as he'd been. He had provided us a better life than he'd had. 
If You Like MAHA, Thank Obama

If You Like MAHA, Thank Obama

Dec 02 2025 | comment(s)

In 2008, Senator Obama won the election against Senator John McCain to become America's 44th President. It brought a lot of excitement to the science community. Before social media, opinion was easy to manipulate. Academics who, let's be honest, are almost 90% Democrats, were ready to believe the worst about Republicans. Bush banned stem cell research and it would cure Alzheimer's if a Democrat was in office(1), they repeated. Solar was ready but Republicans blocked it, while nuclear energy had to stay banned because it always led to nuclear weapons, they insisted.(2)
Student Loans Were Touted As The Path To Higher Income - Most Made Young People Poorer

Student Loans Were Touted As The Path To Higher Income - Most Made Young People Poorer

Nov 24 2025 | comment(s)

In the 1980s, Democrats produced data showing that a college degree meant hundreds of thousands of dollars in lifetime earnings difference than a high school diploma. It should be a right, they said, and universities readily agreed. Student loans became unlimited and suddenly it wasn't just rich dumb kids or scholarship winners, everyone could go everywhere.
EPA Rolls Back TSCA Encroachment By The Biden Administration

EPA Rolls Back TSCA Encroachment By The Biden Administration

Nov 07 2025 | comment(s)

In 2016, President Obama listened to reason and signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and created a mandatory requirement for EPA to evaluate existing chemicals using transparent methodology and risk-based assessment.

No more simplistic epidemiology. Which meant no more junk that had anti-science activists declaring that a weedkiller turned frogs gay or PFAS in pizza boxes created greater risk for obesity than pizza.
My Book Halloween Science 2.0 Is Now Out!

My Book Halloween Science 2.0 Is Now Out!

Oct 10 2025 | comment(s)

Are kids walking at night on Halloween safe? What's the physics of ghosts? How many toxic chemicals are in that organic pumpkin I bought? Is there a Secret Sadist out there putting razor blades in candy?

You can find out the answers to all those questions and more in Halloween Science 2.0. It covers the history of the holiday, of course, this is Science 2.0, not a textbook, through the lens of biology, anthropology and more!

Former NRDC Lawyer Robert Kennedy Just Handed His Friends A Huge Lawsuit Opportunity

Former NRDC Lawyer Robert Kennedy Just Handed His Friends A Huge Lawsuit Opportunity

Sep 18 2025 | comment(s)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer and once such a pillar of the Democratic party that President Obama floated his name to run the Environmental Protection Agency.

Now he controls the agency that controls EPA. That is a big win for anti-science progressives. And because they are playing chess, not checkers, anti-science Republicans think it's their idea.
Gen X Is Getting Its Own Captain America

Gen X Is Getting Its Own Captain America

Jul 15 2025 | comment(s)

Gen X is getting its own Captain America. This is a big deal. Culturally, the Boomer majority gave way to the next large demographic, Millennials, while Gen X got slighted. Even though we had the best music since the 1940s.

On the plus side, being a minority means we don't get hate. Gen Z dislikes millennials for being cringe, millennials dislike Gen Z for being so Puritan, and everyone dislikes Boomers because they won't stop talking about Woodstock and Kennedy. Some argue that instead of being too small to matter we are the coolest but that's subjective.
FDA Goes After Illegal Kratom 7-OH Supplement Sellers

FDA Goes After Illegal Kratom 7-OH Supplement Sellers

Jul 15 2025 | comment(s)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent seven recent letters sent to companies selling products containing 7-hydroxymitragynine, also known as 7-OH.1, an illegal opioid.

It became popular because it is found in the dangerous supplement kratom, illegal even in the country that exports it to the United States, and supplement grifters also began selling the compound in gummies, drink mixes, and shots.


Agricultural Science Wins In The One Big Beautiful Bill

Agricultural Science Wins In The One Big Beautiful Bill

Jul 15 2025 | comment(s)

It's always easy to be critical of government, but while the new administration cut grants for sociologists who want to "study" why people still play Everquest 2, it also boosted funding for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and programs like the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program and the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank.
Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers - Bulky, Beautiful, Limited

Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers - Bulky, Beautiful, Limited

Jun 30 2025 | comment(s)

Once a decade, I buy a pair of good sunglasses. I didn't know I was doing that, it wasn't intentional, I only realized it when I bought a pair of Persol sunglasses in 2005 that my wife mentioned it seemed to be a pattern. It really wasn't. I still had a pair of Aviators from the 1980s and she bought me a pair of sunglasses in the 1990s so it wasn't really a trend, it was coincidence. In 2015 or 2016, while living in New York City due to running a nonprofit there, I was tired of my old glasses and walked into a Sunglass Hut on Fifth Avenue and bought a new pair.
French Cigarette Ban Will Eventually Improve Public Health, But Pollution Right Now

French Cigarette Ban Will Eventually Improve Public Health, But Pollution Right Now

Jun 24 2025 | comment(s)

In less than a week, France is implementing a ban on cigarettes in some public spaces, like near schools or on beaches. While this may not be a public health win right away, any more than boycotting Exxon on Tuesday changes gas prices, it could be a pollution victory sooner rather than later.
The Largest Camera In The World Reveals Its First Image

The Largest Camera In The World Reveals Its First Image

Jun 23 2025 | comment(s)

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released the first image using the largest camera in the world. The 3200-megapixel resolution wide field of view Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera.

Its high-definition images use six different color filters can photograph 45 times the area of the full moon in the sky with each exposure. So wide it can capture the entire southern sky in just three nights of shooting.  
Nightshade: AI Scraping Arms Race Escalates

Nightshade: AI Scraping Arms Race Escalates

Jun 10 2025 | comment(s)

It's a good thing America is pivoting back to nuclear energy after a 30-year Clinton-induced hiatus because "AI" tools require a lot of energy, and a new tool to prevent scraping will make the cost for AI tools even higher.