Articles by David Zaruk

Is Chris Portier The Andrew Wakefield Of Pesticides?

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Here's Your Chance To Buy Gems Buried With Buddha 2000 Years Ago

Almost 2,000 years ago in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India, someone deposited a cache of gems inside a reliquary (a container for holy relics), along with some bone fragments and ash.

Solar Power Activists Keep Saying Solar Is Ready - If So, Net Metering Subsidies Are No Longer Needed

Utility customers in California are being exploited by a special class of grifters. Those who live in apartment buildings or rental homes or live in poor neighborhoods are forced by law to subsidize…

Is Coastal Flooding Now Predictable?

A new paper posits that rather than being the random chaos theory colloquially known by things like the Butterfly Effect, recurrent coastal floods actually occur at very predictable times.

More Evidence That Emotional Expressions Are Universal

Are smiles, scowls, or sympathetic sighs universal across cultures? Studies from Namibia to Bhutan have attempted to find out, but the findings have been too inconsistent to take seriously.