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Legacy Survey of Space and Time Gets Closer
Next up is the final phase of testing before capturing "first look" images and then the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time will begin.
Cheminformatics: NIH Funds A More Scientific Mosquito Repellent
Despite 70 years of effort, viable affordable replacements remain elusive but a new program hopes LLMs could help find one. The National Institutes of Health funded a proposal to use machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to help generate new mosquito repellents.
100 Days: Patient Goes Home With Single Moving Part Titanium Heart
The work was led by Dr. Paul Jansz and the anonymous patient was sent home in February. He then received a donor heart early in March.
Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science For Modern Brain Tumors
A new paper links gliomas in the brain or spinal cords to a specific mutation and then using epidemiological correlation to "suggest" cause from haloalkene, a common chemical in use for 600 years and in the 20th century in nearly every home with fire extinguishers, but then denying they are trying to suggest cause down at the bottom.
Number Theory In The English Department
(Image by Henry Reich)
One thing, singular. Two or more things, plural.
Subjects must agree with verbs in number: It is, they are.
The Sexual Evolution - Gender And Nature May Be More Complex Than You Believe
If you're in a binary world you may have decided one thing about my beliefs in the first eight words of that paragraph and then something else after the rest of it. If you insist there is no binary in biological sex, I hope you at least consider the existence of irony in making sweeping generalizations about the psychology of people based on one issue.
Summer Lectures In AI
Wealthy People, Stop Buying That Elite Raw Pet Food, You Are Killing Your Cat
Those are three giant preventable disease vectors for and the west coast is still doing all of them. The latest disease spreader for wealthy progressive elites is Wild Coast Raw of Olympia frozen Boneless Free Range Chicken Formula raw pet food for cats. It is probably contaminated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 also known as bird flu.
Messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) Vaccine Shows Promise For Pancreatic Cancer
That all changed when Moderna said they could make a COVID-19 vaccine fast, they just needed the bloated federal government and its need to make companies spend 18 months getting approval for a font color on a product label to instead get out of the way. The Trump administration did just that and by the end of 2020 it was being rushed to those on the medical front lines.(2)
What Will Become Of Reality?
For convenience, let’s say it started with Photoshop. That program made it obvious not only that we couldn’t believe our eyes any more, but that photographic evidence could no longer be admissible in court. Socioeconomic implications were even wider, as new industries popped up with products purporting to tell unretouched photos from photoshopped ones. (And the trademarked noun gave rise to a verb!)
Trump Administration Authorizes $100 Million For New Vaccine Research
Hundreds of millions fewer chickens mean expensive eggs, and poor people who suffered through 44% food inflation were counting on lower prices.
Female Physicians 50% More Likely To Commit Suicide
PFAS: Environmental Working Group Is Thrilled Republican Allies Are in Power
Welcome to politicization of science in the 2020s. Just a few years ago, Republicans were the enemy of anti-science activists, but now the Trump administration has an environmental conspiracy theorist in the Cabinet. Science won't matter and that's good for environmental lawyers.
Scientization Of Politics: Seed Oils Are The Latest Nocebo Fad
The harms weren't recently discovered, they've still never been discovered. They're not harmful so nothing has changed except the demographic criticizing them flipped from endorsing them. They were never healthier for you either, despite claims by people touted as experts, because those claims were also based on mouse studies and food surveys. It is just the pendulum of money-driven nutrition culture that goes where political winds take them.
Anti-Science Epidemiologists Have A New Friend In Government
Being the opposition to science in academia is a good place to be. They can get a publication to check off that annual box and nothing much will change. They won't get any blame.
Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor
Not only will you find warning labels on nearly every product inside a Walmart, a warning label is on the outside, to warn you that the brick and glass has been "linked to" cancer.
KM3NeT: Most Energetic Neutrino In The Universe Detected
The event, KM3-230213A, is the first evidence that neutrinos of such high energies are produced in the Universe and the most energetic neutrino ever observed.
My Most Important Column Ever
This column deals with political opposition, resistance, and the future of the nation. It dissects the Trump-Musk financial bromance and the role of VP Vance. Bear with me to its end, then please comment pro, con, or in between.
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