Younger man, Generation Z according to marketing groups who invent new generations every 10 years, have a lot less interest in dating than in years past.It could be that they feel besieged in culture. When sociologists blame the "Johnny Bravo" cartoon, which caricatured masculinity by having him get dunked on by women every episode, for toxic masculinity, you know we have a cultural militancy problem.

Rosie The Riveter was born on this day in 1920.Well, one of them. And maybe on this day. All of those diet claims about centenarians and their lifestyles could be suspect if so many are fraud or clerical error the data are meaningless. No one is even sure when Rose Will Leigh, the original archetype for "Rosie the Riveter", was born.The B-24 Liberator bomber consisted of 450,000 parts held together by 360,000 rivets of 550 different sizes. It weighed 18 tons. During World War II, Henry Ford's Willow Run plant in Michigan produced 8,685 of them, thanks to 42,000 employees working around the clock.

Medicine works. When progressives insisted Science Is A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy it was dumb. Vani Hari and Joe Mercola, DO, and the rest jumping on the MAHA train and claiming Science Is A Left Wing Conspiracy (enjoy endorsing glyphosate you two!) is still dumb.Because facts are real.

Governments and insurance companies are scrambling with solar power actuarial tables that are far outside what rosy marketing estimates claimed would result.Because enginees and scientists were ignored - unless they were advocates for the solar panel industry. Engineers not allowed to have input were concerned about “right skewed degradation with a long fat tail” and real-world usage shows almost 10% of solar panels may not even last 11 years, much less than 25 to 35 governments spending trillions of dollars of our money assured us.

Valentine's Day is when the social sciences get to shine. It's when people revisit things about the science of kissing (kissing is good, unless it's bad) by anthropologists like Dr.

A  recent survey of 2,000 Americans aged 18-28 wanted to get insights on how "AI" Large Language Models are shaping behavior. 

In 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt instructed his US Department of Agriculture to create a set of nutrition guidelines for a population that was gaining increased access to more foods, thanks to railways, but were more and more often in cities.Wilbur Olin Atwater, Ph.D., did just that, and it was great, and we could have stopped there. Yet that is not the way of government. His recommendations were entirely sensible. Think about calories first. Eat meat and vegetables, limit fatty and carbohydrate foods. It was immensely popular but popularity breeds jealousy and now a desire by scholars to 'make their mark on history' and feel proud they have changed the world every five years.

Lard wasn't that long ago. Given the renewed prevalence of Health Whisperers, those progressive forms of trad wives who fetishize the ancient ways and call soup "bone broth", it is probably an alternative sold at high cost to people who also buy raw milk.For my father, lard was a way of life. Bread made in my grandmother's kitchen with lard and salt and pepper was his school lunch. That wasn't bleak to him, he didn't go to therapy about it, it was just his life. We were poor when I was a child, below the poverty line most of the time, but not as poor as he'd been. He had provided us a better life than he'd had. 

In 2008, Senator Obama won the election against Senator John McCain to become America's 44th President. It brought a lot of excitement to the science community. Before social media, opinion was easy to manipulate. Academics who, let's be honest, are almost 90% Democrats, were ready to believe the worst about Republicans. Bush banned stem cell research and it would cure Alzheimer's if a Democrat was in office(1), they repeated. Solar was ready but Republicans blocked it, while nuclear energy had to stay banned because it always led to nuclear weapons, they insisted.(2)

In the 1980s, Democrats produced data showing that a college degree meant hundreds of thousands of dollars in lifetime earnings difference than a high school diploma. It should be a right, they said, and universities readily agreed. Student loans became unlimited and suddenly it wasn't just rich dumb kids or scholarship winners, everyone could go everywhere.