Science 2.0

When Told Lower Incomes Mean Less School Funding, College Students Become More Liberal
A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but more things are free for the poor. They're not wrong, normal human psychological variation means most people would rather not compete if given a choice. That is seen all across the animal kingdom.
The Earth Beneath Our Feet: How The Zagros Mountains Are Shaping The Middle East
The Zagros Mountains are nestled in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey, and are the scene of an unfolding geological story deep beneath it.
Yellowstone Wolves: Good For Urban Environmentalists, Bad For Everyone Else
The data they used were collected from 20 streams during the years 2001 to 2020 and they note the aboveground biomass increase is due to a lot fewer elk, which was caused by a lot more wolves. "Balance of nature" wins.
HIms Telehealth Company Under Fire For Super Bowl Ad
No real issue there, the products are well-established and a phone call or website consultation is more convenient and far faster than visiting a doctor's office in the modern Obamacare milieu. It's entering the compounded glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists (GLP-1) injections market that got them new scrutiny.
Bad News For Big Alcohol: Half Of Valentine's Day Celebrants Will Abstain
They're not wrong. During the waning days of the Biden administration, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy did something for science and public health that was grounded in science - he issued a report encouraging people to get off alcohol.
Hey AI, Design A Calorimeter For Me
The problem is not incompetence - in fact, at least in my field of study (high-energy physics) most of us have grown rather well educated on the use and development of tailored machine learning algorithms. The problem is rather that our problems are enormously complex. Long gone are the years when we started to apply with success deep neural networks to classification and regression problems of data analysis: those were easy tasks. The bar now is set much higher - optimize the design of instruments we use for our scientific research.
Lessons, Advice, And Reflections On Editing A Scholarly Book
In 2023, I bit the bullet by signing a book contract with Springer to work on a difficult compilation of scientific misconduct and problematic science publishing practice. It was planned as an edited book that required expert contributors of the field to write chapters on the various topics.
Birth Control Pill: Less Ovulation Linked To Less Ovarian Cancer
That does not mean you should take it as a way to prevent cancer, it is an endocrine disruptor that binds to estrogen with 20,000X the effect of compounds like BPA that environmentalists tried to claim are too risky in food containers, and this study is EXPLORATORY. With enough data, Australians could link voting for the Liberal Party to lower risk of diseases. Epidemiology can link anything to anything.
Texas Shows Leadership In Viable Clean Energy
Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp announced they have provided land nearby to build four nuclear small modular reactors. “Plain and simple: the United States needs more power. And nowhere in the country, other than Texas, is anyone willing to step up and build the power plants we need."
Credit: Texas A&M University
Kennedy Insistence On Late Term Abortion and Gun Bans Should Be A Republican Turn-Off
What changed? He is close to finally getting the government legitimacy he has craved, but escaped him in 2008. So he has flipped to things Republicans like. It is all for show. He has not changed.
EDITH: Lower Health Care Costs Using AI For Breast Cancer Screenings
Government is always looking for ways to keep costs contained but NHS employees need raises also, so it is a challenge. Needing fewer new employees will help.
In Finland, Farmers Are Now Forced To Yell At Geese To Try And Keep Crops From Being Ruined
Overcoming Misinformation And Reconnecting With Science Deniers
Scientific information has never been more widely accessible than it is today. While this increased availability fosters awareness and collaboration, it has also contributed to a concerning surge in misinformation and disinformation, especially in the United States. Recent Pew Research data indicates a decline in public trust in science, with only 57% of people believing science has had a mostly positive impact on society, down from 73% in 2019. Additionally, 34% of adults now view science’s impact as equally positive and negative.
Corporate Media - 'Young People Are Dying' But People Are Actually Healthier Than Ever
'People are dying' is just a headline to grab eyeballs. More accurate listing of deaths show more young people are dying from recreational drugs than in recent years, when if you got shot and died from it but had tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days you might have been listed as a COVID-19 death by the CDC. Yet more people are not dying. Of anything.
Are Infectious Diseases A Social Justice Issue? A History Of The World In Six Plagues Has Answers
There are many examples and while politicians ignored it, storytellers have not. In "The Division" game, for example, eco-terrorists spread their pathogen using cash. That made sense. If you are a zealot, disease can do what eugenics and population control efforts did not; get rid of a lot of poor and minority people without controversy, and no one can be blamed because disease is both egalitarian and exculpatory.
Unless it isn't.
Chemical Looping Plastic And CO2: Science Even Environmental Groups Can't Hate
Sorry folks, politicians in states like California who insist it's being recycled are lying to you, scientists know better. What really happens to plastic, even if your government is shipping it to China to be "recycled" is landfilling and incineration. A new study finds that measuring how much carbon dioxide a potential chemical looping system would pump out compared to conventional processes to produce synthesis gas could reduce emissions by up to 45.
The Multi-Muon Analysis - A Recollection
3 Pro-Science Action Items For EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
Gym Paradox: People Want To Get Healthier But Until They're Healthier Don't Feel Comfortable
Fitness executives don't want that but store managers know not to alienate their best customers for someone who will join on a special deal, go for a month, and then cancel the first time they download RocketMoney and remember they have a gym membership.
Warming Up Cars Before Driving In The Winter: Combustion No, Electric Yes
Like America inventing pre-diabetes, which no other nation accepts because only 5% of people in the CDC 'warning' range will ever develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, warming up your car is a solution without a problem.