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Government Regulations Could Cause Half Of Small Farms To Fail By 2050
"Whole earth farming” practices are a popular new government mandate. And they will wreck small farmers.
Hank Campbell Fri, 09/18/2026 - 15:05 Categories EnvironmentMajor Increase In MRI Before Prostate Biopsy - Is It Necessary?
An MRI changes whether a biopsy is needed and where the needles go. Is there a reason they aren't used more often?
News Account Fri, 09/18/2026 - 14:42 Categories Cancer ResearchVoid Scores Reveal What Sources People Don't Trust During Emergencies
Do you trust one local person in an emergency over hundreds of millions of dollars of government equipment? Yep. And firefighters and cops too. But perhaps not government agencies.
The Conversation Fri, 09/18/2026 - 14:28 Categories TechnologyChiropractors Are Dangerous But Artery Tear Risk May Be No Greater
If you use a chiropractor, the medical guidance you should follow is to stop going to a chiropractor. But if you believe in organic food, homeopathy or that medicine is a corporate conspiracy, there is good news about your risk of dying from spinal manipulation.
Hank Campbell Fri, 09/18/2026 - 13:24 Categories Public HealthRadiacode Zero - A Powerful New Radiation Detector
Ionizing radiation is all around us. We do not notice it: we have not developed any sense to detect it. Yet it may affect us in very serious ways, particularly because its effect on living cells and organisms is cumulative: a progressive degradation.
Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 09/15/2026 - 04:13 Categories PhysicsMRSA Infections In Hospitals Are A Problem: This Simple Change Can Help
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in hospitals are a worry but a new program implemented in 106 intensive care units (ICUs) and 87 non-ICUs at 94 hospitals caused cases to plummet.
News Account Mon, 09/14/2026 - 12:29 Categories Public HealthOn The Annihilation Risk From AI
The debate on the risk connected with the development of superintelligent systems has been going on for a while now, and in the last few years it has intensified considerably - especially since large language models have established themselves as powerful new oracles, mathematics superpowers, and code-writing wizards.
Tommaso Dorigo Mon, 09/14/2026 - 05:44 Categories TechnologyWhy Does Anyone Still Get Married?
Marriage for love is essentially a 20th-century convention. It's still financial in most ways. You need a government license to enter a marriage contract and a financial settlement to exit. But it still has religious overtones also. The question now is; why do people get married at all? Professor Devorah Baum has answers.
The Conversation Sun, 09/13/2026 - 04:29 Categories Philosophy & EthicsEpidemiology Reduced To Sounding Alarms About Fake Eyelashes
A new paper links fake eyelashes to demodicosis - parasites living in your eyes. How worried should you be?
Hank Campbell Sat, 09/12/2026 - 04:29 Categories Science Education & PolicyWhy Do Technological Advances Cause A Surge In Folk Beliefs?
Sweden, for example, claims to be a secular, modern country, yet their belief in the paranormal is the same as everywhere else. Dr. Katarzyna Herd has insights.
The Conversation Fri, 09/11/2026 - 17:10 Categories PsychologyHeel-Toe Mobility Separated Humans From Lesser Primates
A new paper posits that we may have taken over the world due to a mobility advantage; heel-and-toe walking.
News Account Thu, 09/10/2026 - 11:28 Categories EvolutionInconsistency Of EV Battery Pack Performance Remains A Challenge
Electric cars are currently limited in utility, which means continued government subsidies and high cost, because battery technology has not changed in the last 35 years.
Hank Campbell Thu, 09/10/2026 - 10:01 Categories EnergyClimate Change Linked To Greater Arctic Earthquakes
A new paper believes that in an already seismically active Arctic region, permafrost degradation can weaken the ice that helps to bind fractures within rock.
News Account Tue, 09/08/2026 - 13:31 Categories GeologyWhy Understanding the Human Condition Remains One of Science’s Great Challenges
Science has explained an extraordinary amount about the world around us. But one of its most elusive subjects remains remarkably close to home: ourselves. What made humans the way we are? How did we acquire our extraordinary capacities for consciousness, cooperation, language and culture?
Damon Isherwood Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:12 Categories PsychologyEpidemiology: Microplastics Cause Lung Cancer
Unless you are a cigarette smoker, you can't be 'inhaling' enough polypropylene and polyethylene to impact your lungs even if you live for 7,000 years. That doesn't stop fad claims that microplastics cause lung cancer.
Hank Campbell Sun, 09/06/2026 - 06:29 Categories ChemistryYour Smartphone May Be Off On Your Exercise Calories By 25%
Sorry, Apple. Sorry, Fitbit. You're overcounting calories burned and science shows it.
Hank Campbell Sat, 09/05/2026 - 13:28 Categories TechnologyWhen A Bump Gets Greedy: A Connection I Had Missed For 25 Years
Back in 2009 I wrote in this blog a rather technical post about something I had called the “greedy bump bias.” (GBB) The effect I referred to had emerged from a 2003 CDF study of mine, where I considered the extraction of small signals sitting on top of much larger backgrounds.That work went unpublished, but then I took revenge with the blog post...
Tommaso Dorigo Thu, 09/03/2026 - 09:15 Categories PhysicsIf You Like Stories, Thank The Inventors Of Fire
Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape.
News Account Wed, 09/02/2026 - 17:53 Categories AnthropologyRain Gardens: Placement Matters More Than Square Footage
The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports followed, and the worst of it hit the city’s west end, including the Crystal Beach neighborhood.
The Conversation Wed, 09/02/2026 - 16:18 Categories EnvironmentThe Precedent For Creating A 'Conservative' Science Journal
In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr. of Detroit, a staunch ally of President Obama, to get the new president to issue an executive order and undo the work of his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
Hank Campbell Wed, 09/02/2026 - 13:33 Categories Science Education & Policy