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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?
MAHA And The Looming War Over Food Between USDA And NIH
If you don't know any scientists or Republicans, and NRDC employs neither, it is easy to demonize them because you never have them looking at you over lunch.(1)
NRDC knows a Republican insider now. Their former lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is part of the Trump administration and the "mainstream" positions they prize, that food science is evil, medicine is evil, technology is evil, are becoming government policy.
Book Review: Lost In Austin - The Evolution Of An American City. By Alex Hannaford. HarperCollins, 2024.
The book is author Alex Hannaford’s lament about changes in Austin, Texas, since his initial visit to the city in 1999. This at first spurred your reviewer, who moved to Austin in 1969, to think, “1999? Well, isn’t that just too precious?”
H5N1: Raw Milk And Raw Pet Food Are Unsafe But Raw Cheese Aged 60 Days Is 87% Not Killing You
Government Claims Victory Over Virtual Vaping
Well, I can, because COD:MWII has dropped a lot in usage from a few years ago. Sure, critics might claim it is an older game and new games come along and people switch to those, but if I am at FDA, none of that matters.
No Patchwork Regulations In 50 States: OpenAI Wants Federal AI Rules For Everyone
Not only will most things in Walmart have a cancer warning, the building itself can give you cancer. Photo: Hank Campbell
Unscientific And Illegal WOTUS Agenda May Finally Die
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.