Science 2.0

Secondhand Marijuana Smoke Risk
The Future Of Experimental Design
(Above: Ramsay and Pierre Curie in their lab)
Planting Trees Can Fix The Climate, But Only If We Eliminate 80% Of Energy Usage
It's all nonsense, of course, the kind of rich white elitism that has a different name than in the 19th century but is still warmed over colonialism.
Bruce Willis Has Aphasia: What Does That Mean?
Aphasia is devastating for an actor because all three kinds - Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia, and global aphasia - mean a loss of communications ability. And when an actor has to struggle to communicate at all, they are losing the ability to act.
With Detection Of Earendel, Hubble Just Set A Viewing Distance Record Of 28 Billion Lightyears
That's why the discovery of a star by Hubble 28 billion lightyears away, a new record, may not last long if everything goes as planned with its long-delayed successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. It's so far away that Hubble can't tell astronomers if it is even one star or two, because statistical blips in the data need more clarity that a deeper space telescope will provide.
Sea Cucumbers Are Ecologically Critical But Asian Food Market Demand Puts Them At Risk
Sea cucumbers are used in Chinese folk medicine but are also a luxury food product and that demand has meant once-thriving Mexican sea cucumber populations have been decimated due to poaching. China doesn't care where its products come from, so any certification could be as illegitimate as an organic food sticker from Russia.
Sea cucumbers are ecologically critical but a new literature review finds that Asian food markets have them on the brink of crisis.
The Ukraine War Punctured The Myth Of Viable Alternative Energy
The war in Ukraine has driven oil prices to their highest leve
Recent Volcanism On Pluto Brings Up Questions
Pluto, the Solar System’s largest dwarf planet, just became even more interesting with a report that icy lava flows have recently covered substantial tracts of its surface. In this context, “recently” means probably no more than a billion years ago. That’s old, of course – and there is no suggestion that volcanoes are still active – but it’s only a quarter the age of the Solar System and no one knows how Pluto brewed up the heat needed to power these eruptions.
The news, coming nearly seven years after NASA’s New Horizons probe made its spectacular flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, is thanks to analysis of images and other data by a team led by Kelsi Singer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
COVID-19 May Be Bad But If You Get That And Flu, It's Really Bad
How Antibodies Navigate Pathogen Surfaces
Antibodies are often thought of as Y-shaped proteins but perhaps a more accurate way to envision them is to flip the picture upside down and regard antibodies as walking stick figures, stepping on antigens. Those two characteristic “Y” branches function as legs of sorts.
Would You Buy Vitalized Minerals in 2022? Then You Shouldn't Buy Vitamins Either
The two doctors behind this company did the exact same thing, except the big news was they got it down to 1 pill. In other words, they paid someone to promote the big breakthrough that they created a multivitamin. Multivitamins have existed since 1943. Even during World War II, with sugar and meat rationed, someone found a way to be a grifter and call it science.
The Game Of The Three Spin Wheels
Food Is Essential And Fertilizer Is Expensive; A New RNA Sequencing Study May Improve Both
Labor costs have gone up across the spectrum, including fertilizer and crop protection tools, while politicians in states like California say if farmers, processors, and stores raise prices they are price gouging and will face lawsuits.
Limiting Purchases Of Firearms By People On Psychiatric Medication May Reduce Suicides
Discouraging gun purchases among people with major depressive symptoms may be an opportunity to diminish suicide risk while help is obtained. A new cross-sectional survey found that people with moderate depressive symptoms were more likely to have recently purchased a first firearm.
During The Pandemic, Plants Became The New Pets And Greenhouses Boomed
New surveys show about one out of every three people began gardening in 2020 because they were home more due to SARS-CoV-2 restrictions and worries. Many also put in new grass lawns and did outdoor renovations, such as installing new plant beds and other landscaping.
The James Webb Space Telescope Achieves A New Milestone
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope peered into the universe and captured one of the most stunning images you will ever see.
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Putin’s Information War: Winning Or Losing?
Putin’s Information War: Winning or Losing?
Remarks for World Talent Economy Forum, March 21,2022
Fred Phillips
Activists Oppose Vaccines, Agriculture And Now...Vegetarians?
Prior to 2021, environmental activists were not only comfortable with anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists under their umbrella, they embraced them, because they were overwhelmingly their wealthy donors. Now even Brooklyn hipsters and their shoulder cats say they are on Team Science again but the kookier members of the progressive movement remain opposed to nearly all applied science. They are even turning on vegetarians.
Pests And Disease Ruin 20% Of The Global Wheat Harvest Each Year - These Scientists Think They Can Fix It
They are right to be concerned. Food is a strategic resource but European countries chose to embrace higher cost lower yield alternatives to modern agriculture at home because they got cheap food from the east.
If an additional 290,000,000,000 loaves of bread were available, that would ease the strain worldwide. That is how much wheat is lost each year due to pests and diseases that the so-called organic process can't prevent. But science can.