The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
Learning Through Student Feedback
By Mark Pierce
First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
Something Happened In Silicon Valley
The neutron is a fascinating particle, and one which has kept experimental... Read >
The French look at not owning air conditioning as a point of pride, and it... Read >
FDA-approved flu treatments target viral enzymes of influenza but the virus... Read >
Advanced cancer often brings preparation for the worst and proponents of the... Read >
New survey results find that sociocultural factors may be involved in how likely... Read >
Could Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina find agreement on one of the most contentious... Read >
Searching For Impossibly Rare Decays
I recently ran into a description of the Mu3e experiment, and got curious about it and the physics it studies. So after giving it a look, I am able to explain that shortly here - I think it is a great example of how deep our studies of particle physics are getting; or, on the negative side, how ...
Now For Something New Around Uranus
There us something new to talk about around Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun. Uranus is a “sideways planet” due to its extreme axial tilt, and the ice giant owes its cyan-color to a deep atmosphere composed of hydrogen, helium and methane. And it has moons. Lots of moons. ...
Some Thoughts On Co-design For Tracking Optimization
These days I am organizing a collaborative effort to write an article on holistic optimization of experiments and complex systems. "So what is the news," I could hear say by one of my twentythree faithful readers (cit.) of this blog. Well, the news is that I am making some progress in focusing ...
Swedish Physics Days
On August 13-15 I will attend for the first time to the Swedish Physics Days, an important national event for Swedish physics. This year the congress takes place at Lulea University of Technology, the institute where I am currently spending some time, hosted by the Machine Learning group through ...
How The Ancient Volcanoes Of Ultima Thule Impacted Climate Then And Now
Some sixty million years ago a fountain of hot rock that rises from Earth’s core-mantle boundary unleashed volcanic activity across a vast area of the North Atlantic, from Scotland to Greenland. We can detect the effects in spectacular basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland.But why ...
How European Forests May Look By The Year 2100
A new computer simulation says that climate change may may ruin the tall beech trees common in Europe. Unfortunately, many other simulations already said it was too late to curb runaway emissions by India and China as of 2016.For the last 2,000 years, the area from southern Sweden to central France ...
USDA Results Show Science Can Feed The World If Governments Get Out Of The Way
Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for government-mandated sterilization and abortion to prevent it.(1)Science didn't buy into the doomsday narrative and the poor have benefited.Rather than the world ...
California Wildfires Linked To Suicide And Harms From PM10
California has an environmental problem. The state is overwhelmingly desert and rain is scarce for 10 months out of the year. Water instead arrives from the mountains. Yet the state legislature and government are allied with environmentalists. They want dams torn down, which means water from the ...
Human Exceptionalism In Evolution: How We Walked Upright
One key hallmark of being human is walking on two legs. It was a seismic shift seen in no other primates. Like much of evolution, it happened in fits and starts. The 4.4 million year-old Ardipithecus of Ethiopia was a tree climber with a grasping toe that would walk upright 3.2 million ...
No Sense Of Smell? Try Radio Waves
We usually associate smell with bad things, like body odors or fire or a gas leak, but a keen sense of smell helps us enjoy food and other pleasures in life. Many things cause loss of smell; aging is number one, but also brain injuries and loss of smell was a common complaint about COVID-19 infections ...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease May Accelerate Dementia
You have probably heard the phrase “follow your gut” – often used to mean trusting your instinct and intuition. But in the context of the gut-brain axis, the phrase takes on a more literal meaning. Scientific research increasingly shows that the brain and gut are in constant, two-way communication ...
RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects.Kennedy has claimed that mRNA vaccines “encourage new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics” ...
Cancer And Diabetes Deaths Down 80%, Why Do Progressives Insist The Modern World Kills Us?
Death rates from non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease continue to decline but you wouldn't know that by corporate media which prints every claim that some useful product is "linked" to shorter lifespans.Weedkillers, processed food, artificial sugar, you ...
None Of Us See The Same Colors But Our Brains See Some Things In Common
Colors trigger unique brain responses, the subjective nature of our brains and eyes, not to mention different media, is why a famous blue dress experiment took countries by storm.To try and help determine how different people have the same brain responses to colors, researchers measured color ...
What To Do If The Dog Gets Into Your Cocaine
Cocaine toxicosis in animals is a real thing. You shouldn't do cocaine, even during the Biden administration it didn't become legal and it's more dangerous than that kratom people buy in a gas station. Drug dealers secretly despise their customers so it could adulterated with lots of bad things ...
New Vaccine For 21 Strains Of Pneumococcal Disease
A new international, randomized clinical trial is evaluating a vaccine developed to protect against 21 strains of pneumococcus, up from the current 13 strains covered now. That means greater protection to babies against the common infection that causes pneumonia, sinusitis and meningitis.Pneumococcal ...
Yankeedom, New France, Left Coast: 'Wellness' Is Regional And Based On Which Europeans Settled There
People in the northeast of the United States think they have greater "wellness" than everywhere else except California. People in the southern United States think they have more wellness than everywhere else.Which is right? They both are. Wellness may be in social media ad campaigns and have diets ...
Snus Works For Smoking Cessation And Harm Reduction
Rather than encourage smoking cessation and harm reduction, the US Centers for Disease Control have spent over a decade undermining products that were not Big Pharma. That has been and remains a mistake. Smoking kills, and anything that helps reduce or eliminate it, from patches to gums to vaping ...
The Bystander Effect Of Aggression - When Your Peers Attack
If you have spent any time on social media, you have a different kind of bystander effect in action. Psychologists say if many people are around, the bystander effect is why everyone is less likely to help. They believe someone else will be more competent or know something you don't. If you walk ...
Adam Smith And The Transactional Fallacy
A guest on NPR’s Morning Edition (August 26) mis-characterized pioneering economist Adam Smith as a pure transactionalist. Smith’s metaphorical “invisible hand,” the guest asserted, suggested self-interest drives our every action. It’s a big deal – in fact, a revelation! – she continued ...
Bringing Technology Home
One of my institute’s projects is gaining too little traction with its target city. No surprise: The project is expensive, heavy on newer smart infrastructure, and this U.S. city is in the middle of a budgeting round. It’s evident to all, though, that the new infrastructure is critical to maintaining ...
Knucklehead Democrats
"Knucklehead" and “Wimp” were the toss-up for titling today’s column.A few Democrat politicians are almost heroic as they respond to the current sh*tshow in Washington: Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Reich, JB Pritzker, Melanie Stansbury, AOC, and even Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin ...
So Good Badminton Banned It: The Spin Serve Gets A CFD Analysis
In all racket sports, a well-executed serve can establish a real advantage. Badminton is played by around 220 million people across the globe and a“spin serve” took badminton by storm when a Danish player at the Polish Open 2023 badminton tournament used it to dominant effect. Like in table ...
How Trump Is Making Taiwan Safe(r)
Let’s write a letter to Donald Trump. Trigger warning: Lots of sarcasm here.
Not-so-dear Don,
Well, Don, those “sh**hole” countries are not “eating” the tariffs as ...
Air India Flight 171 - The Vital SecondsThe Timeline - Vital Seconds.This timeline is constructed... more »
Charlie Kirk was shot while exercising his constitutional American right to free speech. ... more »
In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same... more »
This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture... more »
Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing... more »
