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Inflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
By W. Glen Pyle
Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics
The title of this post is no news for particle physicists - particle detectors... Read >
In the 1966 Harry Harrison novel "Make Room! Make Room!" concerns about population... Read >
All coronaviruses, and certainly SARS-CoV-2, have become famous as a respiratory... Read >
Do be careful, masks, distancing, get vaccinated, ventilation, avoid crowded... Read >
In 2008, Senator Barack Obama was opposed to gay marriage and worried vaccines... Read >
Prior to 2021, if you found an anti-vaxxer, it was also going to be someone... Read >
The Real Future Of Solar Power Is Space
If you believe solar power is ready for mass usage, you are likely an activist, in the industry, or one of the customers who really believes they are selling electricity back to the utility at the same price they are paying when they need it and it isn't being paid for by people in the apartments ...
Quantum Gravity And The Search For A Unified Physics
Quantum gravity has fascinated scientists for over a century. The term refers to any theory that seeks to describe gravity in the regimes in which quantum effects cannot be disregarded. Scientists have proposed string theory, loop quantum gravity, and many other theories, but none has achieved ...
Exoplanets Were Discovered For The First Time Using A Sophisticated Radio Antenna
As was reported in The Guardian last October, Australian scientists made up part of a team that used the world’s most powerful radio antenna, the Low-Frequency Array (Lofar) in the Netherlands to detect exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. These new techniques will someday be able ...
Do Lunar And Solar Gravity Impact The Behavior Of Life On Earth?
It is well-known that the gravity from the moon impacts ocean tides, sailors knew it long before anyone knew what gravity even was. A new
literature review and small meta-analysis hopes to add to the body of work showing how much gravity impacts plants and animals as well. The meta-analysis ...
Air Pollution From Wildfires Can Do In One Day What PM2.5 'Virtual' Pollution Never Will
When you see a TV weather personality put up an air quality map for the last 10 years, it might make you believe that pollution is far worse than when you were young.It isn't, air quality in America is actually better than any time in the last 100 years, but a suspect data set embraced by the Obama ...
Warming And Clean Air Caused The Little Ice Age During The Renaissance
The Little Ice Age, lasting from early 15th to mid-19th centuries, was one of the coldest periods of the past 10,000 years - since the last real Ice Age ended.Why it happened is one of the persistent questions in historical climatology.The cold spell set in around 600 years ago and was responsible ...
How To Predict Lightning Using AI
There is a saying that goes 'lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice' but it was never wise to bet your life on it. What it means is that getting hit at all is rare, for a human well over a 1 in 1,000,000 chance, but even if only 300 people are hit and under die, it still happens a lot ...
Spurious Correlation: Epidemiology Paper Links Virtual Air Pollution To Fatty Liver Disease
A new study hopes to link long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a name change from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease because it is associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. We always want to think about air quality but the paper has two ...
Politicizing Aphid Poop
We all know there is no Beepocalypse by now, right? Seeing it referenced in sit-coms from the 2010s is as anachronistic as watching "Soylent Green" from the 1970s and seeing them lament that they didn't listen to scientists and make the hole in the ozone layer larger. Sure, Washington Post ...
Greenlanders Have Lower BMI, Fat Percentage And Cholesterol - Evolution May Be Why
Over the course of evolutionary history, Greenlanders have benefited from a genetic variation that offers an incredible advantage; two copies of a gene variant make it so that they absorb sugar differently than other people do.A new study finds that up to 3 percent of Greenland residents, based ...
Dinosaurs Weren't Green, Some Even Had Colors Like Peacocks
Popular imagery is that dinosaurs were a bland color, but most birds are have bland color palates as well. Then you have parrots or peacocks. In between the extremes of bland and flamboyant, there are pink pigeon feet, red rooster combs and yellow pelican pouches.That may have been the case for ...
ACE2: New Chewing Gum Reduces Coronavirus Viral Load In Saliva
A recent study finds that chewing gum laced with a plant-grown protein named ACE2 serves as a “trap” for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral load in saliva and potentially tamping down transmission.Vaccinations for COVID-19 have begun to stamp out the pandemic but even people who are fully ...
Chewing Gum May Increase Diet-Induced Thermogenesis And Therefore Mean Less Weight Gain
A new study finds that oral stimuli during the chewing of food can help increase energy expenditure of body and prevent obesity.Chew your food well is ancient wisdom. In the past, the belief was perhaps because there was less food anyway. Chewing it longer gave the brain and stomach time ...
Magnesium Helps The Immune System, Including Against Cancer
Magnesium is important in the immune system’s ability to tackle pathogens and even cancer cells but that doesn't mean you should run to a supplement huckster or naturopath. It is magnesium in blood that is needed for T cells to operate efficiently and that means science and medicine, not woo ...
There Are Few Countries In Which It's Good To Die
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 81 countries, rich and poor, mostly do poorly on how well their health systems provide for the physical and mental wellbeing of patients at the end of life. The survey of end-of-life care showed only six countries earned grades of A, while 36 earned Ds or Fs. ...
Vilca-Chicha: Peruvians Created A Literal Opiate Of The Masses To Exercise Control
As Peru's Wari kingdom sought to shore up their crumbling empire over 1,000 years ago they did it with their own form of bread and circuses - cocaine, ayahuasca, and a beer with psychedelics mixed in.Since the concoction was only made by elites without a penalty of death, festivals became a way ...
Supreme Court Finds Biden Can Mandate Vaccines For Federally Funded Hospitals But Not All Businesses
The Supreme Court dealt another blow to federal overreach by the Biden administration but then rightly upheld vaccine mandates if an organization is federally funded.Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, nearly all hospitals are federally funded. So a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Maybe There Is No One True Native, Everyone Displaced Someone Else
People in Britain, from Scotland to Wales, may maintain a cultural identity, but how much of it is real versus an arbitrary social construct? How much should be decided by genes versus how people choose to identify?A new study opens up as many questions as it answers about Bronze Age Britain. Where ...
The COVID-19 Pandemic Reduced Stigma About Depression
There has long been something of a stigma about mental health issues. If a celebrity goes into an alcohol or drug clinic, 30 days later their career is back on track, but a reputation for depression makes filmmakers worry they won't be able to take the stress of a new project.The COVID-19 pandemic ...
CDC Boondoggle: First Career Bureaucrats Didn't Want To Send Coronavirus Tests, Then They Sent Faulty Ones
It is common in a polarized political climate to try and blame the other political party when missteps happen but most government employees are not political appointees, they are career bureaucrats, and sometimes care more about protecting their fiefdoms than in helping the public. A good ...
For AI To Make Health Care Decisions, It Needs 6 Things
When it comes to baseball and football, coaches always know the numbers. That helps them make informed decisions on risk and reward. Less well-known is that clinicians also often make important healthcare decisions with the aid of algorithmic tools that draw on large amounts of complex data ...
Blade Runners Do Not Have A Competitive Advantage
Do amputee sprinters using running prostheses, or blades, have a competitive advantage? The world’s fastest 400-meter sprinter, Blake Leeper, was ruled ineligible to compete in the Tokyo Olympics due to having an assumed advantage, but a new study with the most comprehensive set of data ever ...
When Adult Children Cut Ties With Their Parents, Parents Believe Differently Than The Kids About Why
A survey of over 1,000 mothers who were part of the Understanding Parental Estrangement Survey conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center in 2019 and estranged from their adult children revealed a disconnect between what the kids might say is the reason and parents believe. While ...
Omicron Data Show We're Beating COVID-19 But It's Hard To Know That From Social Media
If you read social media, you might believe we're teetering on the brink of societal collapse due to COVID-19 but one metric tells the real health story; ICU beds.Deaths have been cut almost in half from this time last year while ICU occupancy is down 40 percent. If you're a positive person, you'll ...
The Thirty Meter Telescope is moving forward as the state of Hawaii seeks to address real injustices... more »
One of the constant things that one encounters in the world of science is idealization. Nevis Laboratories... more »
This video which appeared two weeks ago greatly surprised me, making me realize how little I know... more »
Look how epic this little guy is! He is a crab — and if you asked him, the fiercest warrior that... more »
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