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By Mark Pierce
Something Happened In Silicon Valley
These days I am putting the finishing touches on a hybrid algorithm that optimizes... Read >
A new study examining regional snow cover trends across the Northern Hemisphere... Read >
In late January 2026, New York Magazine published a striking piece of cultural... Read >
A bad liver today currently means a replacement, but having enough transplant... Read >
A cohort analysis of preschoolers in Canada has led the authors of the paper... Read >
By this time 26 years ago, the "Dot-Com Bubble" was ready to burst. People... Read >
On The Illusion Of Time And The Strange Economy Of Existence
I recently listened again to Richard Feynman explaining why the flowing of time is probably an illusion. In modern physics time is just a coordinate, on the same footing as space, and the universe can be described as a four-dimensional object — a spacetime block. In that view, nothing really ...
RIP - Hans Jensen
Today I was saddened to hear of the passing of Hans Jensen, a physicist and former colleague in the CDF experiment at Fermilab. There is an obituary page here with nice pics and a bio if you want detail on his interesting, accomplished life. Here I thought I would remember him by pasting an excerpt ...
2026 Plans
This year opened in slow motion for me, at least work-wise. I have been on parental leave since December 16, when my third and fourth sons were born within one minute from one another, but of course a workaholic can never stand completely still. In fact, even as we speak I am sitting and typing ...
Letter To A Demanding PhD Supervisor
A fundamental component of my research work is the close collaboration with a large number of scientists from all around the world. This is the result of the very large scale of the experiments that are necessary to investigate the structure of matter at the smallest distance scales: building and ...
El Niño Climate Effects Shaped By Ocean Salt
Once the weather got political, more attention became focused on the cyclical climate phenomenon El Niño. Critics charged that too many early models were shaped by understating its effects while proponents insisted its efforts were worse due to CO2 emissions.There is something for everyone. It ...
Prehistoric Peter Pan Syndrome
In older countries it has become common for young people to live with their parents until, and sometimes well after, they get married. A new study finds that some parts of the animal kingdom don't even stop growing until what it middle age for humans. An analysis of 17 tyrannosaurus rex specimens ...
The Hemp Industry Has A Placebo For Your PFAS Chemophobia
Environmental activists have claimed for decades that PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are "forever" chemicals that have been causing disease. Once former Natural Resources Defense Council environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined the Republican team, their belief in homeopathic ...
Bacteroides Fragilis May Be A Fifth Columnist Helping Colon Cancer In Your Body
The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A new study from a Danish research team offers a possible clue. When they looked beyond the bacterium itself ...
At 2 Months, Babies Can Categorize Objects
At two months of age, infants lack language and fine motor control but their minds may be understanding how things look and figuring out to which category they belong, which would push back earlier beliefs about the foundations of visual cognition.A new study recruited 130 two-month-old infants ...
Environmental Activists Hate CRISPR - And They're Dooming People With HIV
Existing treatments control HIV but the immune system does not revert to normal. They is why people living with HIV remain susceptible to infections and it underscores the need for immunotherapies.That requires modern tools like CRISPR-Cas9 and others. Tools that environmentalists oppose, insisting ...
Using Cholera To Battle Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer, cancer of the colon and rectum, is the third most common form of cancer in the world and has the second highest mortality rate. When caught early enough, it is usually treated with surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, methods that can have significant side effects.A new study ...
Mushrooms Linked To Fewer COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial tested a four-day oral supplement, “FoTv,” which is made from the mycelium — the root-like network — of two types of mushrooms: Fomitopsis officinalis and Trametes versicolor (FoTv). Participants began taking the supplement on ...
Losing Weight Improves The Heartbreak Of Psoriasis For Some
For many people living with psoriasis, the red, scaly skin patches are only part of the story. Another challenge is the uncertainty about whether there is anything they can do themselves to help manage their skin.Treatments have improved greatly in recent years. Creams, tablets and injectable medicines ...
Could Niacin Be Added To Glioblastoma Treatment?
Glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, is treated with surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible and then radiation and chemotherapy.Like all cancer, that may not be the end of it. Sometimes, the aggressive cancer returns. A recent study sought to find out if high doses of vitamin B3 ...
Opportunistic Salpingectomy Reduces Ovarian Cancer Risk By 78%
Opportunistic salpingectomy, proactively removing a person’s fallopian tubes when they are already undergoing a gyecological surgery such as hysterectomy or tubal ligation, may be a way to reduce ovarian cancer risk. Most ovarian cancers originate in the fallopian tubes rather than the ovaries ...
Theory Of Mind Is Wrong About Autistic People
For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind blind”. The phrase suggests an inability to grasp what others think or feel. It is simple, memorable – and wrong.The ...
Dogs And Coffee: Finally, Epidemiology You Can Trust
In 2026, it is easy to feel intellectually knocked around by all of the health claims you read, and all claiming to be supported by science. Weedkillers causing cancer, food coloring causing diabetes, vaccines causing autism, and ultra-processed foods causing everything else are part of a Vast ...
Scholars Who Got Sold On The Academic Life Feel The Pressure
Professor Peter Mitchell got a Nobel Prize in 1978 for a chemiosmotic hypothesis of how ATP is made. Basically, how mitochondria turn fat, protein, and sugar into energy. Like most science, his breakthrough was built on 70 years of work by people before him, including Professor Fred Crane, who ...
I Earned It, You're Privileged - The Paradox In How We View Achievement
The concept of “hard work v privilege”, and what either one says about someone’s social status, is an important one. Politicians regularly draw dividing lines between “hardworking families” and those receiving “handouts”. Others distinguish between those whose wealth increases while ...
Does NBA Income Inequality Impact Team Performance?
A new paper says that players where a few superstars get the money leads to less cooperation and poor team performance. The authors say this salary compression is why teams won fewer games.The authors also suggest that companies should strive for more equity in pay, to increase synchronized ...
Chloe Kim And Eileen Gu In Media As Anti-Asian Narrative
Olympians Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu are both Americans but have Asian descent. Yet Kim competed for her country in 2018 while Gu chose to instead compete for Communist China, which does not allow dual citizenship yet actively recruits foreign athletes to be on their Olympic team even if they have ...
Misandry Vs Manosphere: Both Use Unscientific Woo To Advance Their Beliefs But One Sells Better
Culture wars are as eternal as shooting wars, and that means there will always be war profiteers. Misandry and Manosphere poles get media attention when opening new fronts and those mean products appealing to both and then demography papers will follow.A new one highlights the risks of social media ...
Turning 60
Strange how time goes by. And strange I would say that, since I know time does not flow, it is just our perception of one of the spacetime coordinates of our block universe... The thing is, on February 5 I will turn 60. An important date for anybody - I could say a milestone. First of all ...
A study has been making the rounds and has been published in BJSM. It is a meta-analysis of various... more »
Air India Flight 171 - Flawed EE Bay Water Ingress TheoryRichard Godfrey, in many videos on the... 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 »
