The 1844 edition of the widely used schoolbook written by William H. McGuffey, “Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader,” includes a dialogue about the difference between “true and false philanthropy”:…

About a third of the world's corn production uses a legacy hybrid rather than modern science and a new study finds that  grain yield in intermediate-maturity hybrids could be plagued by a…

I have been preparing a poster for the MODE Workshop, which will take place in the splendid location of Kolymbari, in the Greek island of Crete, from September 1 to 7. The poster is not about one…

A little over a week ago, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced ten advances in mathematics and computer science made with their as-yet unreleased model Astra. The discoveries cover a wide…

Companies know to go with the political flow. It is better to help manage the process than protest just because a populist belief defies science and end up with mandates handed down by Congress that…

The USDA Organic certification was a mandate from the Clinton administration to create a way for his constituents in the organic food space to market their product as distinct from conventional food.…

Protein-maxxing is the latest rage in people who learn just enough science to be wrong about nutrition health, but if you adopted a gluten-free diet despite not being celiac, that vaccines cause…

On this day in 1945, an atomic bomb on Hiroshima began the countdown to the end of World War II. Of the Axis Powers, Italy had surrendered in 1943 and Germany in April of 1945. Only Japan remained,…

Happy birthday to the World Wide Web, born on this day in 1991 with absolutely no attention. It was instead just a post in the alt.hypertext newsgroup.  Image…

Marek’s disease, a deadly illness that infects chickens, is caused by the herpes virus but was never given gain of function funding to try and see how it would infect mammals the way H5N1 and…

After yet another strike by highly-paid union members demanding even more money in 2024, and celebrity fatigue due to tedious political posturing, the movie industry has fallen so far California…

You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. You can also spend long periods alone without finding the experience distressing. That difference may help explain why…

We often speak of loving things like a cozy sweater or new camera. But this talk is not generally taken literally. It’s a kind of emotional shorthand. We use it to express our fondness for precious…

A populist campaign has built up around data centers and their impact on rural areas but, like with claims that natural gas and coffee cause cancer, they are lawyer-driven rather than scientific.…

Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to…

In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food…

There is ongoing concern about species extinction in modern times but we have no real idea how many species there are right now, and 99.999997 percent of species that have gone extinct we can't…

A longitudinal study of Black, Mixed, Asian, and Indigenous women determined that lower levels of education and other social inequality keeps them from exercising as much as white people. The World…

Recent reports have shown that advanced AI agents developed by OpenAI and Anthropic can escape their evaluation sandboxes and interact with real-world systems when given sufficiently capable cyber…

In December of 1900, a civil engineer named John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. wrote an article for The Ladies Home Journal titled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” and his predictions put most…