As a child, the "Star Trek" show (there was no The Original Series designation then, any more than there was a Star War IV: A New Hope) was on in just about every market, courtesy of syndication. American television is not overtly controlled by the government as it is in many countries, so in 1961 when the FCC required new televisions to have UHF tuners along with VHF, there were suddenly more available channels than there were large networks. Even the large networks didn't have good content for each day. Local channels filled those gaps and to help populate their channels were syndicators, who sold their own original content, like "The Adventures of Superman" and "Mr. Ed, along with canceled broadcast shows like "Star Trek" and "I Dream of Jeannie."(1)
Much of this is taken on faith because 2,000 years after most of the world, the early immigrants to the Americas still hadn't learned to read and write. That leaves what scientists call just-so stories but what humanities academics lovingly embrace as oral tradition. Any parent who has asked a child to go ask another parent a question knows how quickly that can go awry but we are supposed to bIn 1820s Last of The Mohicans, the title is derived because even by the time of the French and Indian War there were no pure women for the nephew of Uncas to marry - in the eyes of the tribe. But there hadn't been for centuries.
Dr. Scott Balsitis knows vaccines work, which is not a rarity in the San Francisco Bay area, but since they have long been a hotbed of anti-vaccine sentiment, leading the state that leads the U.S. in vaccine denial, it at least makes him a little contrarian.He knows vaccinated people are safe, and making everyone safer, because he knows science in a way that Frisco people only pretend to believe if they think Republicans are opposed. They still don't trust science or pharmaceutical companies or the FDA, but love organic food, solar panels, and think endangered animals ground into powder by Asians is superior to medicine.
New York is a state, county, and city, but the money comes from the city. Not much of why it works makes logical sense. Manhattan is small, crowded, expensive, and stuffed with rats, cockroaches, and weirdos. There is rent control, which no one seems to mind, and then people exploiting loopholes in rent control, which no one minds except property owners, but since they are corporations everyone hates them even though nearly everyone in the city works for a corporation.
A few months ago, Derek Muller, creator of the Veritasium YouTube channel, posted a video of a wind-powered vehicle. Nothing special about that, ancient sailors knew the wind could make you go faster.But he showed it went faster than the wind that powered it. Ancient sailors gamed nature to accomplish that also, it is the essence of tacking, but this was a straight course.
Getting a Nobel Prize in science can be tough.(1) You have to do good work and be a little lucky, but here is a way to win one guaranteed.You just need to go to Nate D. Sanders Auctions on July 29, 2021 and be the high bidder for the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to George D. Snell.Organ transplants began in 1954 with a kidney and by 1968 doctors could do hearts, but there was a high compatibility risk - a strong genetic match was needed. Dr. Snell's work on Human Leukocyte Antigen, the genetic foundation of a body's immunological response to tissue and organ transplants which determines whether it accepts an organ or rejects it, became foundational in transplantation immunology.
If your checklist for quality cinema contains:(1) The Pope having his own black ops team that hunts demons and(2) Scientists who study demonic possession and(3) VR that becomes Ryou are in luck, because the trailer for "Demonic," directed by Neill Blomkamp, just dropped.So that girl from "Perfect" is all grown up and has a mom who went on a homicidal rampage and for no reasons that really matter, scientists have spent a fortune to send Carly Pope in VR form to ask her mom's brain why she went on a homicidal rampage.
Ivermectin, effective against pests like worms and headlice, has been promoted by some as a COVID-19 therapy after a preprint showing its effectiveness was published in November on the Research Square website.We were certainly not immune to the public relations full-court press. Until last month a week didn't go by when someone was demanding the regulatory equivalent of 'teach the controversy' no differently than activists opposed to GMOs, nuclear energy, and vaccines do.
It is no secret in science media that The Conversation is overtly political, any more than it's a shock that ProPublica or Mother Jones is. If you are going to get hired in most corporate media - and there are all corporations even if they are Non-Profit Corporations - in 2021 you are first going to have liberal credibility.An acquaintance of mine even had a job offer as an editor at The Conversation pulled a few years ago because another staffer sounded the alarm that he might be *gasp* a fiscal conservative.When you make hiring decisions based on whether or not someone thinks poor people should pay lower taxes, you are really, really political.
Testing kids for COVID-19 is the kind of hygiene theater that has the FAA telling air travelers to take their masks up and down each time they take a sip of coffee. There is evidence testing for COVID-19 in schools is minimizing the impact on education while not much it is minimizing the spread of the virus. Nearly everyone over the age of 50 who intends to get a vaccine has gotten one and most kids are at low risk of having COVID-19 be anything more than a cold.Teens may be providing another reason it's unnecessary; they are using Coca-Cola and lemon juice to fake positive tests to get out of attending school, a Ferris Buehler's 10 Days Off strategy.
