The Regenerative Ranching Racket
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Inflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
By W. Glen Pyle
Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics
Yes, I know - I have touched on this topic already a couple of times in this... Read >
A genetic link to caring about global warming? Al Gore has truly jumped... Read >
Almost since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a piece of the SARS-CoV2... Read >
Thrombolytic agents, commonly called "clot-busting" drugs, are frequently used... Read >
It seems like a great idea, doesn't it, to send an automated rover to Mars... Read >
If pharmaceutical companies are unethical, scientists are just tinkerers and... Read >
The CAPSTONE Mission Launches A New Era In The Colonization Of The Moon
Forbes reports that the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) will be launched from the RocketLab’s Electron rocket and Photon spacecraft by June 27, from the LC-1 launch site in New Zealand. The NASA lunar orbiter will text and verify ...
On The Impossibility Of Space Diving
Since E.E. “Doc” Smith’s 1934 novel, Triplanetary, people have dreamed about performing the first space dive. As we make our first steps toward commercialising space travel, many people have started to wonder if we are any closer to achieving the first space dive. Where Does Space Begin ...
Old-School Statistical Learning Tools Challenge Neural Networks In Physics Problems
Neural networks are everywhere today. They are used to drive vehicles, classify images, translate texts, determine your shopping preferences, or finding your quickest route to the supermarket. Their power at making sense of small or large datasets alike is enabling great progress in a number of ...
W Pairs From Double Parton Scattering
When I explain to the public (in this blog, or at public conferences or schools) how the Large Hadron Collider operates, I have to gloss over a lot of detail that is unnecessary to grasp the important concepts, which enable other discussions on interesting subnuclear physics. This is good practice ...
Congo Basin Peat Bank - NOT Lungs - No Impact On Breathing - One Of The Most Intact Tropical Rainforests And We Are Saving It
This was potentially a good article by the BBC except that sadly it used an absurd click bait title and had several serious factual errors
I recommend the Mongabay articles on the same topic as far better: The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series and ...
Time Crystals Open The Door To Quantum Computing
Time crystals are quantum systems whose lowest energy-state is where its particles are in constant motion. First proposed in 2012 by Frank Wilczek, time crystals are analogous to common crystals, except, whereas common crystals have atoms arranged periodically in space, time crystals atoms’ are ...
Would Peer-To-Peer Charging Reduce Range Anxiety And Make Electric Cars Mainstream?
One of the sillier commercials for a cell phone I have seen in recent memory is some guy shaking his head in sadness that his phone is out of battery and a kindly person places her phone on his to give him a boost. They were able to use the Qi wireless charging capability to share energy with each ...
You Don't Want To Be A Billionaire, And That's A Good Thing
Some politicians and cultural activists may claim that humans are propelled by consumerism but a new paper finds that isn't true. And that it is not true is a good thing.If we were all driven by greed, there would be no poverty. Developing nations would embrace science and have plentiful food. ...
Odin Tubulin May Be A Missing Link Beween Single-Celled Organisms And Humans
Eukaryogenesis is the point at which animal and plant cells separate from bacteria. In animal and plant cells, tubulin forms microtubules which are critical to their internal organization, because they support the cell, giving it structure, shape, and internal organization. Because it is so essential ...
Lost Hammer And A Blueprint For Life On Mars
Some areas on Mars are extremely salty, very cold, and have only a hint of oxygen - just like Earth. Yet even in the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in the Nunavut territory of Canada’s High Arctic, researchers have found microbes that have never been identified before. Using genomic and ...
A Species ‘Stock Market’ To Put A Price Tag On Biodiversity
The value of bees in pollination is overstated, outside the on-demand almond grower market the pollination done by bees would be taken up by 400,000 other species if bees disappeared tomorrow, but that doesn't mean they are not an important part of the ecosystem in other ways.The problem is that ...
Polar Bear Genome From 100,000 Years Ago Shows It Was Genetically Modified
Genetic admixture didn't begin in the 1970s, when insulin became the first government approved genetically modified organism (GMO) and AquAdvantage salmon, where an Atlantic salmon expresses a natural gene from a Chinook salmon to grow faster, certainly was not the first time such genetic engineering ...
Long COVID Linked To Higher COVID Specific T Cells
A new study correlates SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells to lung function and those who suffer from long-term COVID symptoms, which impacts an unclear number of people. The study found that patients suffering from long COVID symptoms had virus-specific T cell levels more than 100 times higher than those ...
Stop Eating Affordable Vegetables, It’s Just Too Dangerous, Claims Organic Industry Funded Paper
There is some produce advice coming from the activist camp yet again, but what they are selling is rotten.
A recent paper senior authored by famed organic industry proponent Dr. Michael N. Antoniou raised an alarm about insecticide
and herbicide residues found in the fecal microbiome of 65 ...
DNA Repair Genes May Be Why More Smokers Don't Get Lung Cancer
Smoking is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen, determined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer before they were hijacked by activist epidemiologists out to scare people about the modern world.Yet it is not a magic bullet. Only 10 percent of smokers will get lung cancer, which does not ...
Media Hype Creates Demand For Black Market Knockoffs Of Molnupiravir And Nirmatrelvir
Antivirals, such as Merck’s molnupiravir and Pfizer’s nirmatrelvir, are given to people infected with COVID-19 when prescribed by a doctor or as part of a clinical trial. Yet entire websites exist that sell it without prescription anyway.COVID-19 caused numerous parts of culture to flip. In ...
Rich People Who Grew Up Poor Are Less Likely To Be Sympathetic To The Poor Than Those Born Wealthy
A saying in psychology goes that more truth comes out when people are drunk. This is even when it comes to politics, where studies showed that young people who espouse more liberal beliefs get more conservative when they are inebriated. They stop saying what they think they should be saying based ...
AI To Elephants: The Legal Question Of Who Is A Person
Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organization) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The campaigners sought a writ of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf to request that she ...
People Are Living Longer And Better Than Ever But A Sociologist Says There Are Warning Signs About The Future
A new paper says Generation X adults in the United States are more likely to have a greater number of chronic health conditions than those that preceded them, which will please environmental groups who claim that everything from pesticides to natural gas to cell phones is killing us, but is not ...
Metonymy: Why A Word Like 'Gate' Added Lets People Know It's A Scandal
On June 17, 1972, Washington, D.C., police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “third-rate burglary,” its scope would grow to consume Richard Nixon’s ...
Supply Chain Issues Are Creating A Food America Environmentalists Want - And That's Bad
In the 1960s and '70s, population apocalypse stories were popular. Movies like "Soylent Green" and books like "The Population Bomb" and "Ecoscience" provided dystopian views of the future, where science would fail and government would be forced to get drastic, with forced sterilization and abortion ...
Abortion: For 59 Percent Of America Nothing Changes. What About The Rest?
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has been overturned, which means that the Supreme Court ruled that the right to an abortion is not federally protected by the US Constitution (in the 1973 case, that it couldn't be illegal under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment), and is instead up to states ...
Back To The Future Of Science Fiction
Vernians are the true believers who think Jules Verne's books are scientific manuals rather than fantastic stories. To my knowledge, there are few, if any, true Vernians around. Still, there are neo-Vernians today who see Verne's books are scientific manuals illustrating the theories of his day ...
Sweden Has Gender Equality But Other Discrimination
Sweden is often lauded for its gender equality. The gender gap in unpaid (house)work is narrow. Wide access to affordable, state-subsidized daycare, together with the right for parents of young children to work part time, means that women’s participation in the labor market is relatively high ...
Bored Ape Yacht Club has been exposed as a ironic or post ironic racist meme using modified Nazi... more »
Veritasium has come in for quite a bit of stick recently over his videos on electricity. However... more »
Chess is a wonderful game, one that contains in itself a universe of situations, choices to make... more »
One of the constant things that one encounters in the world of science is idealization. Nevis Laboratories... more »
Look how epic this little guy is! He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that... more »
