The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
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By Mark Pierce
First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
Something Happened In Silicon Valley
As the developed world becomes more removed from science and health, it is... Read >
The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants... Read >
It's commonly said that moderate alcohol consumption is good for people, but... Read >
Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere... Read >
Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't... Read >
Every day we read a new headline warning us that American leadership is about... Read >
Highlights From MODE And EUCAIF
After a month of intense travel, which among other things included attendance to the MODE Workshop in Crete and the EUCAIF conference in Sardinia, I am back to northern Sweden. Besides significantly improving my well-being, given the horrible heat wave that hit Southern and Central Europe in the ...
Bubbles In Ice Could Be A Future Medium For Secret Codes
Scholars have developed a method to encode binary and Morse code messages in ice. A 'message in a bubble' has limited practical utility, information storage in Antarctica and the Arctic is expensive but less challenging than storing message in ice, but they are more covert than paper documents ...
With New Acceptance Of Vaccines, The Left Needs To Rethink Pesticides Next
A few short years ago, the western left - America and Europe - had a holy trinity of things they opposed; medicine, food, and energy. There is no hope for energy, even 100% higher electricity rates in places like Germany and California won't get them to budge from insisting solar and wind are viable ...
Win A MSCA Post-Doctoral Fellowship!
Applications for MSCA Post-doctoral fellowships are on, and will be so until September 10 this year. What that means is that if you have less than 8 years of experience after your Ph.D., you can pair up with a research institute in Europe to present a research plan, and the European Commission ...
Meta-Analysis: Flower Strips With Two Or More Species May Reduce Pesticides
A new paper has found that flower strips along fields and ditches may be more than just a gimmick that lets people feel like they are improving the environment or saving bees. They may attract pests that eat pests that eat crops.If so, this could help Europe, which has declared it wants to reduce ...
Hurricanes: Water, Not Wind, Is Deadliest
When most people think of hurricanes, they imagine winds gusting over 100 miler per hour, but water has been responsible for 86 percent of all direct hurricane and tropical storm fatalities in the United States for almost this entire century.Floods, rip currents, and storm surges are the big risk ...
The Way To Finally Make Organic Farming Sustainable Is To Allow Modern Gene Editing
The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern gene editing. The only way Europe can reach the goal of 25% Organic™ farmland that its government-funded environmental groups demand, a 250% increase, is by moving into the 21st ...
Climate Change Implicated In Teen Pregnancy
Young women are at at increased risk of school dropout, transactional sex, gender-based violence, and early pregnancy, leading authors of a new paper to declare climate change a public health emergency rather than just an environmental issue.The authors received anecdotes from 297 participants ...
Ohio State Endorses Probiotic Yogurt - Using Mouse Studies
A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop - but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility it is only in mice, and therefore EXPLORATORY.Because mice are not little people.You just wouldn't ...
Nearly Complete Harbin Skull From 146,000 Years Ago Belongs To The Denisovan Lineage
The discovery of the Denisovans 15 years ago set off a chain of evolutionary research into how they contributed to modern East Asians and Oceanians. A new study adds evidence. Researchers have confirmed that a nearly complete hominin skull from 146,000 years ago that was discovered near Harbin ...
The Lizard Poop Of Madagascar
Some 88 million years ago, Madagascar broke off from India.Isolated from all other landmasses, plants and animals evolved in seclusion, creating a biodiversity hotspot unlike anywhere else on Earth. One way biodiversity spreads is by endozoochory, which is the process name for animals eating plant ...
Chinese Researchers Are Rewiring Brains Using Interfaces
Human evolution and culture have been shaped by our increasing ability to communicate. A new review from China believes that brain-computer interfaces mark the next leap: a direct connection between mind and machine. They note breakthroughs in neural signal decoding, AI, and bioengineering but ...
You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids
If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, friend of Obama, and anti-science zealot Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.(1)They've gone ban-happy, the ...
Like Food Coloring Now, Cultural Mullahs Once Claimed Mexican Food Was A Gateway To Disease
In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of Congress and the White House, they got the 18th Amendment to the Constitution out of Washington, D ...
Taurine’s Anti-Aging Hype Takes A Hit In Rigorous New Study
A new study is pouring cold water on the idea that taurine – a nutrient found in the body and in foods – is a magic bullet for aging. Researchers led by Maria Emilia Fernandez at the U.S. National Institute on Aging found that taurine levels in blood do not reliably decline with age in humans ...
Phytosterols In Vegetarian Diets Linked To Lower Risk Of Diabetes
Diets high in phytosterols, such as vegetarian diets, have long been linked to lower risk of heart disease and diabetes by lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol but food surveys, questionnaires, and diaries are not reliable enough to make clinical determinations while in mouse experiments ...
Forget Political Posturing, It's Hard To Warn People About Dangers Like Floods
Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, effective flood protection requires extensive preparedness and awareness ...
UC Davis Epidemiologists Out To Scare New Mothers Again
In the modern era we can detect anything in anything. Being able to detect in parts per billion, trillion and even quadrillion means that if an epidemiologist can "correlate" a chemical to harm in a spreadsheet, someone raising money opposing science can weaponize the result.A new paper finding ...
The Right Of Return Is Complicated
My June 28 column on the Middle East drew a comment concerning Palestinians ejected from their homes by the post-WWII influx of European Jewish refugees to what’s now Israel. Eighty years after the fact, descendants of those displaced still feel much anger.The primary reason the “right of return” ...
The College Major Is A Recent Invention, It May Be Time To Get Rid Of It
Colleges and universities are struggling to stay afloat.The reasons are numerous: declining numbers of college-age students in much of the country, rising tuition at public institutions as state funding shrinks, and a growing skepticism about the value of a college degree.Pressure is mounting to ...
More AI In Health Care Could Save Lives
Imagine walking into your doctor’s office feeling sick – and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from your health records, genetic profile and wearable devices to help decipher what’s wrong.This ...
Ban Left Turns And Traffic Congestion Goes Down
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For July 4th Grilling, Are You Really Buying The US Grown Charcoal You Think You Are?
People dedicated to the art of grilling often choose lump charcoal – actual pieces of wood that have been turned into charcoal – over briquettes, which are compressed charcoal dust with other ingredients to keep the dust together and help it burn better.The kinds of wood used to make lump charcoal ...
Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling
In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill' - a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return - wanted to keep their success.Some environmental groups, like Public Interest Research Group, supported state ...
Let’s bury the dangerous, lazy, and politically convenient idea that there exists a distinct... 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 »
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