It’s really odd that this article was published in The New Yorker, because although it’s not about the current AGW climate change controversy it certainly dwells on the wild swings that have occurred to earth’s climate in the past. Worth … Continue reading →
…before they decide they’re not good for you again. That article, about the back-and-forth and back-and-forth on eggs and cardiovascular health, illustrates what’s wrong with most nutritional research in humans. Way too many uncontrolled variables. A reliance on self-reports. No … Continue reading →
This experience must be enthralling: After the groundbreaking test flight, we caught up with Moses to learn about what it was like to see the curvature of the Earth and experience weightlessness in actual space. We also wanted to know … Continue reading →
I’m not entirely sure that I understand this, but I’m entirely sure that it’s interesting: Taking quantum mechanics seriously predicts a unique, single quantum reality underlying the multiverse. The homogeneity and the tiny temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, … Continue reading →
The brain’s reparative plasticity is especially marked in young people, such as this boy who had one-sixth of his brain removed when he was just six years old: What happened to Collins is a remarkable example of neuroplasticity: the ability … Continue reading →
I read two articles today that dovetailed with each other, although one concerns humans and the other mosquitoes. Then again, haven’t humans and mosquitoes long been intertwined? Here’s the first: The twins, called Lulu and Nana, reportedly had their genes … Continue reading →
Here’s a story about hand transplants and their variable results, benefits and risks, and the stories of some of the patients who’ve had them. Reading the article, I was struck by a number of things. The first is how far … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is such a huge topic that I’m splitting it into parts.] There’s a lot of derision on the right about the Green New Deal. It goes something like this: it’s so stupid, and so against what the American … Continue reading →
Or is it the other way around? From OAC’s Green New Deal [emphasis mine]: …[W]e are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases…we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas … Continue reading →
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to watch out for deadly mushrooms.
Continue reading →I have no idea whether this is stunning, wonderful news that will come true, or something that will fizzle. It would be tremendously wonderful if it was the former: A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found … Continue reading →
And not the “illegal alien” kind—the extraterrestrial kind. Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, thinks it just might have been: On October 19, 2017, astronomers at the University of Hawaii spotted a strange object travelling through our solar system, … Continue reading →