Science 2.0
The Government Wants More Coal To Get Energy Costs Down - Is That Bad For The Air?
Social media critics, and academics being quoted in media, are declaring the end of the world due to American pollution. Are they correct?
How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California
Duckweed Science May Lead To Food That Farms Itself
A new study, genome sequences for five duckweed species, reveals how duckweed can essentially farm itself, and because it can double in mass after two days what that might mean for the future of food science.
French Chicks Impacted Most: Activists Set Their Sights On Banning Tebuconazole
They targeted the common fungicide tebuconazole, popular on food crops because it can stop everything from necrotic ring spot to blights, mildews, and smuts. They compare it to the popular weedkiller glyphosate, which they claim has caused a decline in birds in Europe, despite scientists showing the top reason for bird population changes in various areas has been land use changes and not the use of pesticides lacking an Organic™ label.
Life-Size Sculptures Uncovered In Pompeii Debunk Myths About Ancient Women
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And it’s easy to understand why: there’s plenty on offer within this monumentally well-preserved town, from jewel-like wall paintings of myths and legends like Helen of Troy, to the majestic amphitheater and sumptuously stuccoed baths.
But step outside the gates for a moment, and you’re in a very different – yet no less important – world.
The Problem With Peer Review
Mammals On The Ground Before The Dinosaurs Were Gone
For decades, natural history books have taught that when a catastrophic asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs and gave mammals – until then mostly small, tree-dwelling creatures – a chance to flourish on the ground. It’s the classic “mammals rise after dinosaurs fall” narrative.
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Reporting Live From The SmartZero City Conference, Taipei
What are sustainable cities, and can we build them? I put my Institute Fellows’ decades of experience together with the content of this fine conference, and conclude: (1) A sustainable city will attend equally to innovation, to human opportunity and dignity, and to the Earth. (2) Cities are not yet doing that. (3) There are obstacles.
With Fluoride Ban, Utah Sets Out To Be The California Of The Right Wing
Utah wants to be the California of the right-wing; ban things because it matches the politics of their voters and science will be marginalized.(1)
Is Canadian Patriotism Why Religion Is So Unpopular In The Country?
In 1961, less than one per cent of Canadians identified as having no religion. In 2021, 43 per cent of those between 15 and 35 considered themselves religiously unaffiliated.
Organized religion — and especially Christianity — is in decline. Secularization is advancing apace. Most sociologists of religion agree on this. What they disagree about, however, is why.
Sticky Pesticides Reduce Chemicals Needed To Protect Plants
Most farmers want to optimize razor-thin margins and protect their biggest asset, land, so they are cautious about spraying too much, but the organic process leads to startling amounts of nitrogen runoff into rivers and ground water. A study claims 31 percent of agricultural soils around the world were at high risk from pesticide pollution while the old ways of German farmers recently showed they were exposing everything to wasted chemicals. Seed treatments like neonicotinoids have gone a long way to reducing runoff but some products can only be sprayed.
If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over
The best thing President Donald Trump may have done for science and political sanity is to switch from Democrat to Republican and bring Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk along with him. It forced Democrats, who are nearly 90% of career government employees, to suddenly defend things they had opposed for decades.(1)
Like nuclear energy. Which means we could usher in a new Golden Age of Science.
Learning Through Student Feedback And The Role Of Digital Engagement
In this article I'm going to examine how student feedback plays a pivotal role in enhancing learning design and engagement, particularly in online education environments. I will explore the mechanisms by which timely, constructive feedback not only improves course content and delivery but also empowers students as co-creators in the learning process.
Wild Caught Salmon: Elites Love Knowing Peasants Die To Catch Restaurant Food
No one is fooled. That is why restaurants and consumers who fetish-ize wild caught fight while claiming it is more nutritious or tastes better are so cloying. Sure, there can be differences in taste, just like if you give a chicken different feed, but that is easily solvable, and has been, like in the chicken industry.
Genetic Engineering Could Solve Spider Mite Infestations With Fewer Pesticides
The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
Hate Your Cats? Buy Raw Pet Food
Why are you still buying that stuff? Why did you ever?