Though there are routine claims that women only make 70 percent of what men do, that is a population-level statistic that isn't personally meaningful. Yes, in environmentalism women are grossly underpaid but in engineering there is no difference.The reason it first became an abused and misused statistic is that men work outside the home more. They were making only slightly more per hour and when longevity was controlled for it was a difference that was only meaningful if you were being shorted.

Germany began to abandon nuclear energy after media hype due to a 2011 tsunami and resulting reactor meltdown in Japan. The United States was not immune, we had academics claiming they detected radiation on the west coast almost immediately.

Collagen supplements are a current fad, thanks to epidemiologists abusing statistics. No one is better at that than the Harvard TS Chan School of Public Health, the American 'Mecca of Woo.'  Hardly a week goes by without them endorsing some new miracle vegetable or diet, or trying to scare people about a trace chemical. Yet even Harvard notes that collagen is a useless supplement with no clinical trials, just industry marketing campaigns similar to organic food and coffee enemas.

The Chips and Science Act was passed last year because regulations and a hostile business client for any company not in the white collar 'service' business caused the US share of global semiconductor manufacturing to drop by half since 1990.

Acknowledging that states would have to "expend unrecoverable resources complying with a rule unlikely to withstand judicial scrutiny", U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland has blocked the Biden administration's expansion of "Waters of the United States" control over farms using the Environmental Protection Agency. The actual Waters of the United States have long been protected, the new rule the Biden administration resurrected in December hopes to turn any body of water that can be linked to a larger body into something under federal - and therefore easily weaponized by environmental lawyers - control using the Clean Water Act.

The imagery of Millennials as employees is that they care more about vacation policy and how much the company promotes a social agenda than trading value for income. The imagery Gen Z as employees is that they just won't show up to work at all.Both may feel superior to older generations, they may brag they are not slaves to their work, they have more balance, they can invoke a recession from 2008-2016 and then a pandemic in 2019, but the older generations are the older ones bankrolling their insouciance. A survey of 2,346 U.S. adults found that 68 percent of parents with adult children have bailed them out, often substantially.

In 1970, Denis Hayes, former student body president at Stanford and an avowed communist, was the driving force behind the first Earth Day, to help students protest what he called a collapsing environment. One that could only be saved by more centralized government control.To make sure it had as much participation from students as possible he chose...a Wednesday in late April?

If you're a wealthy homeowner who wants a government handout paid for by the state's poorest consumers, you'd better get your solar panels ordered this week.With $500 billion in unfunded liabilities, a $30 billion deficit just this year, and the nation's most expensive energy costs, the state is finally reducing subsidies that are paid for using added costs borne by everyone who couldn't afford solar panels. It's been an embarrassment for a decade but rich people pretended the money was coming from a magical place - "corporations."

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of ~9,000 common chemicals that became popular as countries moved away from plastic. Like BPA, they keep food safe in ways that paper or metal cannot. Like BPA, they became a target of environmental lawyers because chemical names always sound scary to people who don't understand science.Unlike BPA, this time lawyers won.(1) They got the Biden administration to create a regulation that had nothing to do with science. Instead, it seems to have been 'what is the lowest level that can be detected at all? and when the answer was 4 parts per trillion, EPA was told to use that. With that in place the Biden administration can now approve it and say 'the science is settled.'

A recent paper estimates that vertical wind shear over the North Atlantic has increased 15 percent during the last four decades - but it is hard to know how much because it's only since the 1980s that we've had accurate measurements, even of things like temperatures.Models say climate change will lead to an increase in clear-air turbulence, invisible to both pilots and weather radar, and planes will be fine structurally but if you are moving about the cabin when it happens, you will get knocked around.