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Earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information released a report projecting that by 2040, world energy consumption will have grown by 48% from 2012 levels.   That sounds like a terrific advancement for developing nations.  We worry about ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2025 - 4:01pm - 0 attachments

In today's Wall Street Journal , I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review . It's big news when a journal busts a 'peer review ring' that had manipulated its way to 60 papers sailing through peer review that then had to be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2025 - 12:13am - 0 attachments

... review panel identified the shortcomings in training that led to operators’ wrong responses to the reactor’s indicators and gauges. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jan 3 2025 - 10:59am - 0 attachments

... connotations, too. The virgin birth, the star that led the Magi to the baby Jesus, the bestowing of gifts to the messiah and the ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 23 2024 - 1:56pm - 0 attachments

Soybeans are a tremendously successful crop and a new study that traced the genetic changes in varieties over the last 80 years of soybean breeding found that increases in yield gains and an increased rate of gains over the years are largely due to the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2024 - 10:17am - 0 attachments

I find myself fascinated how similar people, with similar values, can feel so differently about social engineering.  This comes out in political discourse, and certainly is a hot topic today, with those more in favor of socialism, which I’ll refe ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 1:33pm - 0 attachments

... all of that and 200 other lesser-known scientists who led to the birth of modern science, "Before Galileo" is the book for you. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2024 - 10:10am - 0 attachments

... for decades, and Clinton finally killing it in the 1990s, led to more use of coal, which increased CO2 emissions - the thing Bulletin of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 19 2024 - 9:54pm - 0 attachments

... "Research at our nation's medical schools has led to discoveries that have changed the face of American medicine," Arthur ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2024 - 5:20pm - 0 attachments

To modern cultural sensibilities, "Victorian" means 'repressed' because it seemed overly formal to people that want to wear flip-flops into the office, yet they clearly got some things right.(1) The name derives from the reign of Queen Victoria in the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 10:21am - 0 attachments