Among the more ridiculous campaigns by environmental lawyers against the Trump administration, protesting the Department of Energy canceling a last-minute Obama regulation that was never going to survive lawsuit challenges was among the silliest.Until EPA decided to cancel California's 2009 waiver for federal rules on emissions out of spite

Last night, September 3rd 2019, live on BBC, something truly extraordinary happened. Voxon co-founders Will Tamblyn and Gavin Smith came together from across opposite sides of the world via hologram - like in "Star Wars" and numerous other science-fiction shows.It started like other demonstrations, ballet dancers in three dimensions, viewable from any angle, but then into the “frame” stepped Will, and for the very first time in history, a live holographic video call became reality.

If you hear people talking in your second language and think people are speaking too fast, it is literally all in your head. In actuality, languages from English to Japanese convey information at 39 bits per second on average. The nature of the language, like English with its 7,000 distinct syllables versus the few hundred in Japanese, don't make much difference. Basque at 8 syllables per second and Vietnamese at 5 syllables per second mean the rate at which information is conveyed similar for both.

In 2007, with a majority in both houses of Congress, Democrats set out to force science and technology out of the free market and into government mandates. By replacing spoons in the Congressional cafeteria with corn-based alternatives they were going to kill plastic, and by banning incandescent light bulbs they would save us all from...something.Well, plastic didn't die, the alternatives were actually annoying to everyone. The spoons melted in soup, the knives broke, people ended up using twice as many of them to get through lunch, and it cost a fortune. It also didn't help the environment to have the garbage shipped to Virginia in emissions-belching trucks where they were maybe composted.(1) The technology was not ready.

The federal government's war on opioids has caused its target, pharmaceutical companies, to become even less trusted than the federal government.Of course, Big Pharma is not the problem, generic companies like Mylan and Purdue are what has made all companies look bad, and even then it is only a matter of relativity. Almost all opioid deaths are illegal fentanyl mixed with benzos, meth, and other drugs, not prescription pain patients, but that is why the federal government has targeted.

An Australian vegan claims her neighbor's right to cook ends at her ability to smell it. And she is suing to prevent further assaults on her olfactory sense.Cilla Carden claims that the smell of neighbors cooking non-plants have ruined her quality of life. “All I can smell is fish. I can’t enjoy my back yard. I can’t go out there.”The case was thrown out of the lower court so she appealed to the supreme court and in July, the supreme court judge rejected her claim but she has vowed return to court with a new suit against the human diet community. 

Climate change will mean the end of democracy, warns The Week, while Discover tells us a million species are at risk, based on a media kit for a document that hasn't been released and uses broad estimates to make its claims. I predict it will not go anywhere because a million just isn't big enough these days.

Stemell, Inc. of California and its president and Chief Executive Officer, Peyman Taeidi, Ph.D., have been warned by FDA to stop selling umbilical cord blood and umbilical cord products StemL UCB-Plus and StemL UCT-Plus. The final straw was unhygienic manufacturing processes.Thanks to President Clinton's 1994 gift to the supplement industry, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, wacky supplements are generally free from FDA oversight unless they claim to be medicine (rather than just hinting about "wellness" effects) or people keel over. All they have to do is put a disclaimer on the label that FDA has not evaluated the cosmic claims customers choose to believe.But Stemell violates the law in two ways.

French anti-science activists Sherpa,
France Nature Environnement,
and Mighty Earth are blaming French companies for causing the Amazon fires,

Insurance companies charge more at age 16 than age 21 because inexperience and youth make people more accident-prone.This goes for robots also. ROBOpilot, developed by DZYNE Technologies as an easy way to make any aircraft autonomous, passed the Federal Aviation Administration’s Practical Test for piloting light aircraft and carried out its first flight on August 9 in Utah but then a few weeks later had its first incident and was damaged.