Science 2.0

Mariculture: How The Ocean Can Be Sustainably Cultivated To Provide Food For Developing Countries
Yet those same people are horrified at the thought of hunting game like rabbit and venison, they want those farmed. Insisting on only wild salmon seems irresponsible. What if we did that about lettuce or strawberries? They'd be expensive and our nutrition would suffer.
A Joint Discussion Forum For Physicists Of Particles, Nuclei, Neutrinos, And The Cosmos
7 Years After We Asked Columbia To Dump Dr Oz They Did - But Because He Became A Republican
Not only did they refuse, progressives in media rushed to his defense, claiming everyone involved, including Dr. Henry Miller, MD, founding director of the FDA Office of Biotechnology, was part of a right wing cabal. You know. Republicans. out to tear down the Great and Powerful Oz, darling of the left standing up to Big Pharma and the evil corporations trying to block out natural medicine.
Delta Airlines Killed More Bees In One Day Than Neonics Did In Their History
It's all nonsense, of course. Bees aren't in decline. They do have blips where some mass die-offs occur, but those have been recorded for as long as bee hive numbers have been recorded, over 1,000 years of mass die-offs.
The top three risks for mass bee deaths are varroa mites, varroa mites, and varroa mites. Number four is travel, since the largest impact of bees on our food system is not natural pollination, but pollination on demand. Like almonds in California. Or apples in Alaska.
That's right, apples in Alaska.
The NIEHS War On Science Has New Footing During The Biden Administration
Their in-house publication Environmental Health Perspectives has a new claim, and this one does not even involve questionnaires or cell studies hoping to "link" some chemical to some effect; it just picked a bunch of papers the authors liked and did a review of them to manufacture 'weight of evidence' about a term activists coined and NIEHS epidemiologists promote every chance they can - "forever chemicals."
Single-Directional Superconductivity Heralds A New Era In Computing
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have realized the superconducting analogue to the semiconducting diode, the
California's Pushing Of Solar And Wind Means More Natural Gas Used - Or Blackouts This Year
Some Parts Of Borneo Have Landscape Similar To The Pliocene Epoch, 5.3 Million Years Ago,
The current landscape is similar to what was present during the Pliocene Epoch, 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago.
The Wobble At The End Of The Universe
A new paper speculates about how the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — ended up where they are, orbiting the sun like they do. They try to figure an explanation for what happened to gas giants in other solar systems and ours- and try to make an education guess if a fifth gas giant lurks 50 billion miles away. A new planet 9, or a planet 14, or whatever a tiny minority of astronomers in the IAU try to decree.
Aspirin Doesn't Reduce Risk Of Major Cardiovascular Events
They were never settled science, they were instead epidemiology, statistical correlation, which then got transformed into clinical claims, much like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for COVD-19.
How did that happen?
Boys Are More Demanding Than Girls Even Before Birth - In Mouse Pregnancies
The authors speculate it may be because boys grow faster in the womb, needing more energy and nutrients from the mother through the placenta but after around 100 billion childbirths in human history that doesn't add up. Maybe it is the case in mice, and that is the caveat with the study. Mice are not little people, though you wouldn't know that from claims made by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC.)
If Droughts Are Predictable Because They Self-Propagate, Not Planning For Them Is Irresponsible
The Dry 2 Dry program at Ghent University believes droughts are not only predictable and cyclical, they can propagate in a kind of feedback loop; instead of being local, evaporated water is moved to other areas, so less of it is taking drought with them.
Learning To Discover
Below you can see a summary of the event agenda:
- Apr 19-20 Representation learning workshop
- Apr 21-22 Dealing with uncertainties workshop
- Apr 25-26 Generative models workshop
- Apr 27-29 AI and Physics Conference
After 3 Years Of Maintenance, The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Back Into Collision Shape
The work was done so that it can operate at an even higher energy and deliver significantly more data to the upgraded LHC experiments but high-energy collisions still months away. The beams circulated today were a test at injection energy and contained a small number of protons.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Created a New Addiction: Maskaholics
Wait, aren't the Republicans the ones who don't trust vaccines? Only for the last year, and only for political reasons. California, which once had more vaccine deniers than the entire rest of the US combined, suddenly claimed to be pro-vaccine. Except weird places like San Francisco told people they needed four shots. And to wear masks outside.
That is not pro-science, it means you don't trust it at all. Just as always.
Will The Ukraine War Bring The World A New Chocolate Pilot?
After defeat, Germany had been divided into four sectors, controlled by America, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union and three of those sectors 'united' so that there could be a common currency, a new German mark, and goods supplied by the US under the Marshall Plan would bring stability. But the former capital, Berlin, was in the USSR sector, and the USSR wanted its section of Germany to be Soviet, and communism.
The Biden Administration Continues To Engage In Behavior Not Justified While Claiming Science Is On Their Side
The White House hoped to stretch "Chevron deference", a flawed Supreme Court interpretation which found that government agencies could create rules that act like laws without needing Congress as long as it was in their regulatory mandate, beyond recognition.
The Alternative Meat Industry Wants Solar Power Style Mandates And Subsidies
They want more but oddly lament that most of their money comes from the private sector. They want the trillions of dollars in subsidies that solar and wind have gotten, claiming it will fight climate change. That's a big problem.
Stumbling Toward The Metaverse
Many are the sci-fi encounters with races that have transcended their physical bodies, having moved on to dwell on some energetic or spiritual plane. The tales skip the backstories, so we wonder: Did these aliens get where they are via Darwinian evolution? Did they get disgusted with the physical world and devise a technological means of transitioning? Do their planets of origin still exist, or were they destroyed? Always in sci-fi, we are given to assume that these aliens enjoy their non-material existence and don’t miss the meat world.
Lockdowns Doubled Mental Health Issues
During the almost two years of on-again off-again COVID lockdowns, we heard lots of concern from many different corners about the mental health effects of forcing people to stay home and keep away from friends and family.
Many research projects were undertaken to attempt to measure the scale of the impacts on mental health.
However, the speed with which research was generated meant in some cases, research quality was sacrificed, and some research found evidence of an effect on mental health, and some didn’t.
To make sense of the very mixed findings, my colleagues and I conducted a review of all of the studies on mental health conducted during the first year of the pandemic.