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Meat And Cheese Scare: Protein May Be As Bad For You As Smoking

There is good news for smokers; a cigarette is apparently no more harmful for us than a chicken wing. Or it's bad news for those Paleo diet people - they might as well be smoking cigarettes. Or if you have seen scare journalism and miracle veget ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2025 - 8:40am - 0 attachments

Let’s Get Vertical

... semiconductor factory into a farm illuminated by special LED fixtures made by GE. At 25,000 square feet, the farm is nearly half the ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - May 21 2025 - 11:11am - 0 attachments

'Virtual Water' Theory Says Your Cup Of Coffee Requires 140 Liters Of Water

Professor John Anthony Allan from King’s College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies has been named the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. Professor Allan pioneered the development of key concepts in the understanding and communicati ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2025 - 3:38pm - 0 attachments

Remember That '140 Liters Of Water In My Cup Of Coffee' Claim? Here's Why Virtual Water Is Bogus

... an unsuitably-large one could only power a tiny 0.1-watt LED for 45 minutes. It's just physics. So a few days ago people were aghast ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 20 2025 - 3:35pm - 0 attachments

Friends Of The Earth Hate Clean Energy - And So Does President Obama

Nuclear power is not an environmental issue. There is just no way to spin that it is.  What started off with activists being anti-nuclear weapon has morphed into irrational, anti-science stances against all energy - even reactors that simply c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2025 - 9:27am - 0 attachments

U.S. Forest Service Thanks Environmentalists For Getting Out Of The Way

... much since these byzantine restrictions were enacted - and led to the increased emissions that come with the fires - is because people are ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 10:29am - 0 attachments

Energy Consumption Will Increase 48% By 2040, Led By Countries Exempt From Climate Treaties

Earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information released a report projecting that by 2040, world energy consumption will have grown by 48% from 2012 levels.   That sounds like a terrific advancement for developing nations.  We worry about ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2025 - 4:01pm - 0 attachments

Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review

In today's Wall Street Journal , I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review . It's big news when a journal busts a 'peer review ring' that had manipulated its way to 60 papers sailing through peer review that then had to be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2025 - 12:13am - 0 attachments

Companies In Rehab (And Governments. And Universities.)

... review panel identified the shortcomings in training that led to operators’ wrong responses to the reactor’s indicators and gauges. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jan 3 2025 - 10:59am - 0 attachments

Why We Buy Into Magic At Christmas

... connotations, too. The virgin birth, the star that led the Magi to the baby Jesus, the bestowing of gifts to the messiah and the ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 23 2024 - 1:56pm - 0 attachments