The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
Learning Through Student Feedback
By Mark Pierce
Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science...
Something Happened In Silicon Valley
I came to know through a social network (I have many colleagues as friends... Read >
President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order restarting coal... Read >
The cochlear implant has helped many regain hearing functionality and a new... Read >
When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor... Read >
In a world where misinformation, voluntary or accidental, reigns supreme; in... Read >
When the Proposition 65 referendum, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement... Read >
No Goldilocks, Webb Telescope Didn't Discover Life On K2-18b
K2-18b, detected in 2015, orbits a star 124 light years away. Though it is over 800% as large as Earth, its space in the habitable zone of its star, like where we are, means the possibiliy that liquid water could exist on its surface.The science community calls it The Goldilocks Zone. Like the ...
Not So Elementary (the Cosmos, That Is)
Recently there are appeared a paper showing how Physics - Iron–Helium Compounds Form Under Pressure. which suggests that there might be helium from the original nebula from which the Sun and solar system formed still locked up in the Earth’s core.
This association of helium with iron ...
Toponium Found By CMS!
The highest-mass subnuclear particle ever observed used to the the top quark. Measured for the first time by the CDF experiment in 1994, and subsequently confirmed by CDF and D0 in 1995, the top quark is the heaviest elementary particle we know of, and it is a wonderful physical system per se, ...
French Chicks Impacted Most: Activists Set Their Sights On Banning Tebuconazole
A French team conducted experiments using sparrow chicks and write in Environmental Research that their tests led to slower growth, with females impacted most. They targeted the common fungicide tebuconazole, popular on food crops because it can stop everything from necrotic ring ...
Big Organic Continues To Oppose Food That Uses No Pesticides
I get pitches for stories every day and sometimes I want to see if the world that opposes science has made any progress now that a member of a Republican administration who was formerly one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is being helped by ...
Duckweed Science May Lead To Food That Farms Itself
Duckweed split into different species 59 million years ago, when the climate was more extreme than even the most aggressive climate simulation produced now.A new study, genome sequences for five duckweed species, reveals how duckweed can essentially farm itself, and because it can double in ...
Mammals On The Ground Before The Dinosaurs Were Gone
For decades, natural history books have taught that when a
catastrophic asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the
dinosaurs and gave mammals – until then mostly small, tree-dwelling creatures –
a chance to flourish on the ground.
It’s the classic “mammals rise ...
If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over
Greenpeace is facing bankruptcy after a $667,000,000 judgment. For the first time ever, the number of U.S. federal employees declined. Democrats have begun to consider they might be wrongly defending terrorists. They even became pro-vaccine for the first time this century. The best thing President ...
Genetic Engineering Could Solve Spider Mite Infestations With Fewer Pesticides
The world is producing more food using fewer pesticides than ever, thanks to modern science. The gap between modern pesticide usage and organic food pesticides needed per calorie of food got so large, up to 600% more organic pesticides used, that California stopped itemizing organic pesticides ...
H5N1: Raw Milk And Raw Pet Food Are Unsafe But Raw Cheese Aged 60 Days Is 87% Not Killing You
The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that ...
Messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) Vaccine Shows Promise For Pancreatic Cancer
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a molecule that provides blueprints for cells to make a protein that may be needed by the body. Though around for nearly 60 years before COVID-19 erupted from Wuhan, China, it didn't get a lot of attention from government-funding agencies, where the grant system ...
Trump Administration Authorizes $100 Million For New Vaccine Research
In its second year, Avian Influenza has wrecked the U.S. poultry industry and caused egg prices to rise sharply. A month into a new presidential term, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has been given $1 billion to get the problem under control.Hundreds of millions fewer chickens mean ...
Chocolate Is A Treat - It's Not An 'Antioxidant' Or Anything Except Valentine's Day Candy
Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was funding the Chair in Nutrition at UC Davis when a ...
Hims Telehealth Company Under Fire For Super Bowl Ad
Hims Inc., rebranded as Hims & Hers Health, Inc. after they went public in 2020, began as a telehealth company for erectile dysfunction and hair loss products.No real issue there, the products are well-established and a phone call or website consultation is more convenient and far faster ...
Birth Control Pill: Less Ovulation Linked To Less Ovarian Cancer
A new Artificial Intelligence analysis of data of ovarian cancer patients links birth control pills to a 26% reduced risk for those had ever used it, and 43% for those who had used the it after the age of 45.That does not mean you should take it as a way to prevent cancer, it is an endocrine ...
Corporate Media - 'Young People Are Dying' But People Are Actually Healthier Than Ever
Are young people dying off en masse or are predatorts at environmental groups who prey on public gullibility rending their holistic shaman-blessed hemp garments because a wave of improving public health has spread across America?'People are dying' is just a headline to grab eyeballs. More accurate ...
Climate Change Is Causing More Snowflakes
In a bizarre experiment, scholars declared that survivors of one of California's annual wildfires instead suffered PTSD due to climate change.It was a small group, 27 who had been near a fire in 2018, 21 who had seen smoke, and 27 in the control group. Participants had EEG brain scans taken while ...
Life-Size Sculptures Uncovered In Pompeii Debunk Myths About Ancient Women
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And it’s easy to understand why: there’s plenty on offer within this monumentally well-preserved ...
Yes, We’re Living Inside A Simulation
Darn right, we are. Though not in the way argued for or against by my fellow Science2.0 bloggers. Here's why.I‘m going to self-plagiarize three paragraphs from a 2019 blog, then expound further:Taking movies like The Matrix way too seriously, some prominent scientists have declared it not unreasonable ...
Is Canadian Patriotism Why Religion Is So Unpopular In The Country?
In 1961, less than one per cent of Canadians identified as having no religion. In 2021, 43 per cent of those between 15 and 35 considered themselves religiously unaffiliated. Organized religion — and especially Christianity — is in decline. Secularization is advancing apace. Most sociologists ...
On A Roll
What? Another boring chess game?Buzz off, this is my blog, and if I feel like posting a chess game, that's what is going to happen. But if you like the game, stay here - this is a nice game.Again played after hiours today, and again on a 5' online blitz server (chess.com). What amazes me is that ...
When The Attack Plays Itself
After a very intense day at work, I sought some relaxation in online blitz chess today. And the game gave me the kick I was hoping I'd get. After a quick Alapin Sicilian opening, we reached the following position (diagram 1):As you can see, black is threatening a checkmate with Qxg2++. However ...
Reporting Live From The SmartZero City Conference, Taipei
What are sustainable cities, and can we build them? I put my Institute Fellows’ decades of experience together with the content of this fine conference, and conclude: (1) A sustainable city will attend equally to innovation, to human opportunity and dignity, and to the Earth. (2) Cities are not ...
Sticky Pesticides Reduce Chemicals Needed To Protect Plants
It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose 78 percent of fruit, 54 percent of vegetables, and 32 percent of cereal crops. Most farmers want to optimize razor-thin margins and protect their biggest asset, land, so they are ...
According to observations made by NASA using the James Webb Space Telescope, there is a three point... 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 »
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