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Environmentalists, What Are You Asking From Dedmoroz Lenin For Earth Day This Year?

Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of...

How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain

If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from...

Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became...

Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere

Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand...

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6 Ways The US FDA Is More Scientific Than Europe

6 Ways The US FDA Is More Scientific Than Europe

Jul 03 2013 | comment(s)

The American FDA allows ingredients that are banned in other countries.
Wikipedia Is Less Sexist, Thanks To A Survey Recount

Wikipedia Is Less Sexist, Thanks To A Survey Recount

Jul 02 2013 | comment(s)

One of the sillier arguments regarding gender inequality (and most of them regarding the developed world are pretty silly in 2013) is that Wikipedia, with anonymous editors of suspect credibility, is somehow sexist because fewer people self-identified as female on an internal survey.
Methane In Drinking Water - What's The Rumpus?

Methane In Drinking Water - What's The Rumpus?

Jun 29 2013 | comment(s)

Methane has been in water since man has been able to drink water from the ground - but when environmental activists sink their teeth into a fundraising issue, it suddenly becomes a cancer epidemic (nuclear power, along with everything else) and, in the case of hydraulic fracturing - fracking - the Earth deflating and even setting water on fire.

Now, water on fire is hilarious. Pittsburgh, like every other place, has lots of chemicals in its water and most prevalent is the one that makes people ridicule Cleveland. Yet if you ask most people about when the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was on fire, or why, they won't know. It's just...Cleveland.
Fracking Opponents Disappointed In President Obama Being Reasonable On Natural Gas

Fracking Opponents Disappointed In President Obama Being Reasonable On Natural Gas

Jun 28 2013 | comment(s)

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Weekend Science: Recreating 5,000 Year Old Sumerian Beer

Weekend Science: Recreating 5,000 Year Old Sumerian Beer

Jun 28 2013 | comment(s)

Could you make an ancient beer using nothing but ancient tools?

Probably, if you know how to make beer anyway.  But would it be authentic ancient beer? Archaeologists and brewmasters have been trying to make just that kind, sparing no effort to replicate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian beer using nothing more complex than clay jugs and a wooden spoon.

It's the ultimate artisan brew. 
Bruno Was A Martyr For Magic, Not Science

Bruno Was A Martyr For Magic, Not Science

Jun 27 2013 | comment(s)

The contrarian in me forces me to argue against sides I would ordinarily agree with when the argument is made from a flawed premise; California's Proposition 37 got a thumbs down from me because there's no reason a terrifically unhealthy Whole Foods organic cupcake should have zero ingredient labeling requirements while a cupcake mix you buy in a store should have a warning label - the Whole Foods organic cupcake is far less healthy in every way.