Lately I have been writing lots of reference letters for students who are applying to Ph.D. positions in Physics, and in so doing I have found myself pondering on the dubious usefulness of that…

Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute 2 + 2 Does Not Compute, But 1 of 4 AND 1 of 4 DoesOn 12 June 2025 a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, India.…

Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute 2 + 2 Does Not Compute, But 1 of 3 AND 1 of 3 Does On 12 June 2025 a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, India.…

The polyphagous Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a Lepidopteran pest, has European farmers in a panic and, when the environmental NGOs government funds are not around, it has politicians…

Eric Weinstein's theory of Geometric Unity is wrong. So is every other so-called theory of everything that anyone has proposed so far.  His has a deeper problem, however.  A theory in…

Yellowstone was the first national park designated in the United States and is a popular tourist destination, but there is a lot going on underneath that people never feel. A new analysis of 15 years…

In early 2025, the Trump administration began to place tariffs on countries that already had them on the U.S., like China, Brazil, and many in Europe. China has already begun to experience deflation…

Real world data show that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine rolled out for pregnant women in the UK last year has already resulted in a 72 percent drop in babies being admitted to…

In the 1980s, the majority party in Congress saw demography claims that people with college educations made more money than those without.  Universities began to lobby for student loan changes.…

Gen X is getting its own Captain America. This is a big deal. Culturally, the Boomer majority gave way to the next large demographic, Millennials, while Gen X got slighted. Even though we had the…

Gen X is getting its own Captain America. This is a big deal. Culturally, the Boomer majority gave way to the next large demographic, Millennials, while Gen X got slighted. Even though we had the…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent seven recent letters sent to companies selling products containing 7-hydroxymitragynine, also known as 7-OH.1, an illegal opioid. It became popular…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent seven recent letters sent to companies selling products containing 7-hydroxymitragynine, also known as 7-OH.1, an illegal opioid. It became popular…

It's always easy to be critical of government, but while the new administration cut grants for sociologists who want to "study" why people still play Everquest 2, it also boosted funding for the…

It's always easy to be critical of government, but while the new administration cut grants for sociologists who want to "study" why people still play Everquest 2, it also boosted funding for the…

Every day we read a new headline warning us that American leadership is about to erode because of budget cuts to 'science.'We have been told tuberculosis was about to be eliminated by a vaccine but a…

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently published in the journal…

Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from…

Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of…

A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop - but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility…