Learning Through Student Feedback
By Mark Pierce
First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
Something Happened In Silicon Valley
The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
Today, the best way to prevent malaria remains DDT. Though banned in the US... Read >
For decades, natural history books have taught that when a
catastrophic asteroid... Read >
Last week I described how a boulder-sized meteorite exploded in the skies... 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 >
I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns... Read >
KM3NeT: Most Energetic Neutrino In The Universe Detected
The Kilometre Cubic Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) collaboration has reported detection of a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 million billion electron volts) by its ARCA detector. The event, KM3-230213A, is the first evidence that neutrinos of such high energies ...
Unsupervised Tracking
Pattern recognition is an altisonant name to a rather common, if complex, activity we perform countless times in our daily lives. Our brain is capable of interpreting successions of sounds, written symbols, or images almost infallibly - so much so that people like me, who have sometimes trouble ...
Hey AI, Design A Calorimeter For Me
As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve and improve their performance on more and more general tasks, scientists struggle to make the best use of them. The problem is not incompetence - in fact, at least in my field of study (high-energy physics) most of us have grown rather well ...
Chemical Looping Plastic And CO2: Science Even Environmental Groups Can't Hate
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 35 million tons of plastics are generated just in America, and 12.% of that becomes is garbage like plastic containers and bags and even appliances.Sorry folks, politicians in states like California who insist it's being recycled are lying ...
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 ...
The Earth Beneath Our Feet: How The Zagros Mountains Are Shaping The Middle East
The Zagros Mountains are nestled in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey, and are the scene of an unfolding geological story deep beneath it. An international team of researchers led by the University of Göttingen released a press statement on the back of publishing the most astonishing ...
Climate Shifts May Bring New Apple Growing Areas
Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their apex status to other areas.The paper in the pay-to-publish journal Environmental Research Letters ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lost In Austin - The Evolution Of An American City
The book is author Alex Hannaford’s lament about changes in Austin, Texas, since his initial visit to the city in 1999. This at first spurred your reviewer, who moved to Austin in 1969, to think, “1999? Well, isn’t that just too precious?” Yet Hannaford hits ...
Female Physicians 50% More Likely To Commit Suicide
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have revealed an alarming trend: female physicians were 53% more likely to commit suicide than females in the general population. Women are still only 25% of physician suicides, men are 80% of doctors who kill themselves, and the obvious risk factor ...
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 ...
Number Theory In The English Department
(Image by Henry Reich) One thing, singular. Two or more things, plural.
Subjects must agree with verbs in number: It is, they are.
Of all the cows in the meadow, none are white. Or, none is ...
Summer Lectures In AI
Winter is not over yet, but I am already busy fixing the details of some conferences, schools, and lectures I will give around Europe this summer. Here I wish to summarize them, in the hope of arising the interest of some of you in the relevant events I will attend to.From June 8 to June 12 we ...
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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