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If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over

If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over

Mar 24 2025 | comment(s)

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 Donald Trump may have done for science and political sanity is to switch from Democrat to Republican and bring Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk along with him. It forced Democrats, who are nearly 90% of career government employees, to suddenly defend things they had opposed for decades.(1)

Like nuclear energy. Which means we could usher in a new Golden Age of Science.
Learning Through Student Feedback And The Role Of Digital Engagement

Learning Through Student Feedback And The Role Of Digital Engagement

Mar 20 2025 | comment(s)

In this article I'm going to examine how student feedback plays a pivotal role in enhancing learning design and engagement, particularly in online education environments. I will explore the mechanisms by which timely, constructive feedback not only improves course content and delivery but also empowers students as co-creators in the learning process.
Something Happened In Silicon Valley

Something Happened In Silicon Valley

Mar 20 2025 | comment(s)

Genetic Engineering Could Solve Spider Mite Infestations With Fewer Pesticides

Genetic Engineering Could Solve Spider Mite Infestations With Fewer Pesticides

Mar 19 2025 | comment(s)

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 separately to improve the optics of the organic industry.
The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown

The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown

Mar 18 2025 | comment(s)

Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly -something that is theoretically possible but only rarely achieved in practice- you are in statistical heaven: you can use the maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation, and you can get to understand a lot about the whole problem. 
Lost In Austin - The Evolution Of An American City

Lost In Austin - The Evolution Of An American City

Mar 16 2025 | comment(s)

       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?”

H5N1: Raw Milk And Raw Pet Food Are Unsafe But Raw Cheese Aged 60 Days Is 87% Not Killing You

H5N1: Raw Milk And Raw Pet Food Are Unsafe But Raw Cheese Aged 60 Days Is 87% Not Killing You

Mar 14 2025 | comment(s)

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 food. And stop buying raw milk. All of it. Now. And never start again.
Cheminformatics: NIH Funds A More Scientific Mosquito Repellent

Cheminformatics: NIH Funds A More Scientific Mosquito Repellent

Mar 12 2025 | comment(s)

Today, the best way to prevent malaria remains DDT. Though banned in the US by a politician over the objections of scientists, it is still recommended by the United Nations for use where malaria has not been wiped out. Our FDA even wrote the book on how to spray it in homes.

Despite 70 years of effort, viable affordable replacements remain elusive but a new program hopes LLMs could help find one. The  National Institutes of Health funded a proposal to use machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to help generate new mosquito repellents.
Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science For Modern Brain Tumors

Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science For Modern Brain Tumors

Mar 11 2025 | comment(s)

Claims about occupational hazards, chemicals correlated to disease, occur every week, from non-stick spatulas to flame-retardant couches, and the group targeted more by those efforts than pregnant women are first responders like firefighters.

A new paper links gliomas in the brain or spinal cords to a specific mutation and then using epidemiological correlation to "suggest" cause from haloalkene, a common chemical in use for 600 years and in the 20th century in nearly every home with fire extinguishers, but then denying they are trying to suggest cause down at the bottom.
Number Theory In The English Department

Number Theory In The English Department

Mar 09 2025 | comment(s)

(Image by Henry Reich)       

One thing, singular. Two or more things, plural.

Subjects must agree with verbs in number: It is, they are.