KIC 8462852 models that fit Kepler observations quite well
KIC 8462852 (or Tabby's star) made headlines in October of last year because of very deep and very unusual drops in its brightness, which led to speculation that the star might be home to a Type-2...
View ArticleTSCA Reform Casualties Likely Start with Asbestos
With the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform passed into law, environmental activists are developing lists of chemicals they want banned in short order. Asbestos are near the top of the list, as...
View ArticleFeedback on the Forest Garden
My last post dealt with the permaculture edible forest garden, and it received some commentary on a couple of Facebook groups and permaculture forums. A lot of the responses were, predictably, from...
View ArticleMarch Against Monsanto Claims Vaccines Cause Cancer
In 2012's "Science Left Behind" I noted something that was perfectly obvious to anyone who was not in a progressive ideological bunker - that while both the American left and right were each...
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How To Become A Researcher
The INFN exam for nuclear and subnuclear physicists, to select 58 new researchers, took place on September 19th (first test) and 20th (second test) in Rome. Two different locations for the two tests...
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Michael Pollan Doesn't Just Hate Agriculture, He Hates All Scientists
Michael Pollan, food activist and journalist, is the proverbial man trapped in the past in his latest piece for the New York Times, criticizing the Obama administration for not catering to his bizarre...
View ArticleBPA-Free, With Regrets
Not that many years ago, many reusable food and beverage containers on the market worldwide were made from polycarbonate plastic. Polycarbonate, which is made from bisphenol A (BPA), is an almost...
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EPA Again Delays Report On Safety Of Glyphosate
The Environmental Protection Agency appears to be punting a final decision on the safety of a controversial weedkiller into the next administration. Since 2009, the agency has been conducting a...
View ArticleIs Dark Matter A Very Light Boson ? Witten Says It Might
The mystery of what clumps galaxy clusters together, and provides for a quarter of the matter-energy budget of the universe, really looks like _the_ most important scientific question we face today....
View ArticleThe Social Psychology Of Over-Controlled Disasters 1/3
The recent appearance of Hurricane Matthew prompted some harsh memories of hurricanes past. I went through Hurricane Andrew. I was living in Ft. Lauderdale with my youngest daughter, Lydia, and I will...
View ArticleDoes Ice Act As Greenhouse On Mars - Fresh Liquid Water Habitats In Spring...
"What area on Mars is the most interesting for us?". My answer to this question isn’t an impressive geological feature like Olympus Mons or Valles Marineres. For me, it’s a rather unremarkable seeming...
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Is Naturopathic Medicine Safe And Effective? Leading Naturopathic Researchers...
Evidence-based medicine is a sensitive topic for naturopaths. They love to claim that naturopathic medicine is safe and effective.
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Normative Order & The Social Psychology Of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
In the mid-twentieth century, a social psychologist by the name of Harold Garfinkle (1965) wrote an article titled “Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies.” This became one of those articles –...
View ArticleEpigenetic Predictors Of Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy., the seventh most common cancer in women and the 18th most common cancer overall, with over 200,000 new cases worldwide each year.
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When Salt Is An Endocrine Disruptor, The Term Is Officially Meaningless
A new environmental claim about endocrine disruptors would seem to be an early Christmas gift for the fundraisers and lawyers at the Environmental Working Group and NRDC but the scientist employed at...
View ArticleShould Pregnant Women Be Concerned About BPA?
A recent study from French government researchers reported new results on the exposure of pregnant women to more than 100 substances that might be a concern for the health of a developing fetus. The...
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Is The X(5568) A True Resonance ?
The DZERO collaboration published earlier this year a search for resonances decaying to pairs in its Run-2 dataset of 2-TeV proton-antiproton collisions, produced by the now defunct Tevatron collider...
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Baby Boomers Unbound: Marijuana Surges In The Elderly
When the oddly-named Baby Boom generation (the "boom" happened in 1946, after soldiers returned from World War II, it wasn't an entire generation) were young, it was the age of "Reefer Madness", with...
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Teenager Raped To Death And Doughnuts In The Surgery Room
If I wanted to create a fake news story – I would lead with a sensational headline. Something that would incense and shock the readers and be extra “clickbaity”. Perhaps a hook about a teenager getting...
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