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When Natives Are Smarter Than Ecologists About Energy
If you knew that oil extraction would lower your cost of living while having environmental protection, would you object? Natives don't, but ecologists from rich countries do.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/13/2026 - 20:44 Categories AnthropologyWhat AI Gets Right In Medicine Is Giving Patients Time To Talk
A conversation that doesn't get interrupted by a doctor because government bureaucracy gives them 18 minutes to solve every problem was the medicine of the past. And it may be the medicine of the future.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/13/2026 - 19:08 Categories TechnologyIs Simulation-Based Inference A New Technique In HEP?
No, it is not. Please note! It goes back to Stan Ulam in the 1940s!
Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 10/13/2026 - 05:13 Categories PhysicsBearing Witness: Why It Might Be Ethical To Watch A Mass Murderer's Execution
Near the end of World War II, General George Patton forced German citizens to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp to bear witness to what they had enabled. An ethicist debates that and two other reasons it might be right to watch Nidal Hassan die.
The Conversation Mon, 10/12/2026 - 21:19 Categories Philosophy & EthicsAI Is Making MRI Smarter: But It May Also Be Changing What We See
Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.
Mark Pierce Sun, 10/11/2026 - 22:50 Categories Clinical ResearchAI Is Making MRI Smarter: But It May Also Be Changing What We See
Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.
Mark Pierce Sun, 10/11/2026 - 22:48 Categories Clinical ResearchLeaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.
The Conversation Sun, 10/11/2026 - 10:28 Categories EnvironmentHolidate Science: Relationship Differences Between Gay and Heterosexual Men
Men may be men but gay and heterosexual men express differences about relationships when it comes to perceived stability, attachment anxiety, and avoidance.
News Fri, 10/09/2026 - 12:40 Categories PsychologyThe Wondrous Radiacode 110
Yesterday I was delighted to receive in my mailbox another radiation spectrometer for testing, the Radiacode 110.
Tommaso Dorigo Fri, 10/09/2026 - 08:01 Categories Physics194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
A new analysis of Aldabra tortoise DNA shows what scientists have long argued; if humans don't smoke, drink alcohol, or get obese we age better.
News Wed, 10/07/2026 - 14:11 Categories Genetics & Molecular BiologySoviet Well To Hell - How A Teacher Punked A Whole TV Network
In 1989, the communist dictatorship oddly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached the extent of a third giant hole in the Arctic Circle, Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3, where they'd been drilling for 19 years. It clocked in at nearly 8 miles deep.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/06/2026 - 18:03 Categories Random ThoughtsICE Crackdowns Saved Money On Healthcare In California
A silver lining for California politicians panicking about the federal government no longer paying the state to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants is that there may be fewer of them using ERs
Hank Campbell Mon, 10/05/2026 - 11:34 Categories Public HealthThe Brothers Grimm Were Academics So Dark 34 Of Their Stories Were Banned
Imagine a fairy tale in which kids are playing outside and one is acting as a cook, one is a butcher, and one is the pig for dinner.
Hank Campbell Sun, 10/04/2026 - 17:48 Categories Science & SocietyUltra Patchwork Food: California AB 2244 Is An Expensive Anti-Science Mess
California AB 2244 is law and marketing executives at Organic food companies are preparing to buy new mansions. Because if a grocery store carries an "ultraprocessed" food item they are now required to take up shelf space for a boutiquie alternative.
Hank Campbell Tue, 09/29/2026 - 12:26 Categories Science Education & PolicyKids Helping Kids Is Universal - But Cultures Help Differently
A simple game reveals a universal instinct in kids
News Mon, 09/28/2026 - 15:03 Categories PsychologyIs Coastal Flooding Now Predictable?
Flooding has long been an unpredictable event, as poorly understood as hurricanes or any weather. That may no longer be the case.
Hank Campbell Mon, 09/28/2026 - 11:41 Categories OceanographyFlying With Gamma-Ray Counters: Another Test Or Two Of The Radiacode Zero
Yesterday I traveled all day, moving my family back to Lulea from Padova. The trip is long because there is no direct connection from Venice to Stockholm (Norwegian has one, but I prefer to avoid them as they canceled my flight recently).
Tommaso Dorigo Sun, 09/27/2026 - 09:24 Categories PhysicsWhy Oxygen, Not Time, Is What Makes Much of Our Food Go Bad
We tend to talk about food spoilage as if time itself were the culprit. Leave a bag of nuts, a bottle of juice or a packet of dried food on the shelf for long enough, the thinking goes, and age simply catches up with it. But for many foods, the more immediate enemy is not the clock. It is oxygen.
Mark Pierce Sat, 09/26/2026 - 20:20 Categories MicrobiologyEnzyme USP15 Limits Ovarian Cancer Cells And Boosts Chemotherapy
Ovarian cancer is devastating, five-year survival rate under 30%, when detected after it has spread. New basic research may improve that.
News Fri, 09/25/2026 - 11:38 Categories Cancer ResearchSorry Higgs, There May Be A New Contender For Low Energy States
If we're trapped in a false vacuum, there's still hope to break free of cosmic lockdown
News Fri, 09/25/2026 - 10:35 Categories Physics