I have had some down-time over Thanksgiving and decided to update my web page. It was a shock to realize that other than some videos and a lot of shares of posts by others, I hadn’t posted anything personal since 2017. I...
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On Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 our party of 5 departed Trail Lakes Trailhead outside of Dubois, WY for 8-days in the wilderness. We hiked 80 miles, visited many of the crown jewels of the “Winds”, and explored some of its most inaccessible places. Only 4 of the 8 days were spent on-trail, with the balance spent freelancing and route-finding through incredibly rugged and isolated stretches of wilderness where we went days without seeing another human being. We crossed four significant passes, reached 12,200 ft. above sea level twice, transited Knifepoint glacier at 11.500 ft., and crossed more streams, creeks, rivers, snow-fields, rock-fields and marshes than we can count. On our final day we witnessed the total solar eclipse from within the area of totality.
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Starting in 2001 I lived in Wyoming for 3 years. Since then we have travelled back and forth...
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in 2014 I spent a whirlwind afternoon taking a tour of Delhi, India in an auto. ...
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Some of our favorite pictures from many years ago. [ngg_images source=”galleries”...
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CNN's Harry Enten reports on new polls that show President Donald Trump is "basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one, and more popular than he was when he won election back in November of 2024." [...]
At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can't help but admit they support government censorship of free speech. [...]
FOX News contributor and law professor Jonathan Turley opines on lower courts issuing injunctions on President Donald Trump's deportation policies. [...]
The president thinks tariffs are 'the greatest thing ever invented' - but his trade war seems based on fiat and whim [...]
Since taking office, Donald Trump's seesawing tariff announcements have left elected Democrats uncertain over how to respond. [...]
Mayor Mike Duggan has emphasized public safety, growth, and basic city services-not progressive politics. [...]
That advice - about telling the truth early, all, and yourself - has been my core strategy as a lawyer who specializes in crisis management and media communications strategy. It is the subtitle of a book I wrote 20 years ago. Pete Hegseth, for one, could ask his former Fox News Channel colleague, Sean Hannity, who often introduced me when I was a guest on his show as the "Tell it early, all, yourself" crisis management expert. [...]
Feeling more and more like an op by neocons to take out Pete and damage JD. [...]
In the classic 1973 movie The Sting, con men extraordinaire played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford hatch a plan to take down a fearsome mob boss played by Robert Shaw in a high-stakes poker game. The cons first pickpocket Shaw, stealing his billfold and then, using Shaw's own money, outcheat him at cards to take him to the cleaners. [...]
Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth spoke to RealClearInvestigations writers Bob Ivry and Jeremy Portnoy about their in-depth look at federal agencies and programs with expired congressional charters. The duo wrote this week: "Might of the Living Feds: 1,500+ Cash-Sucking 'Zombies'" [...]
Two months into President Donald Trump's second term, I had expected to be embarrassed and outraged. But I'm not. I'm pleasantly surprised. [...]
Amid the Trump administration's assault on higher education and academic freedom - shaking down institutions like Columbia, targeting pro-Palestinian scholars and students for deportation and dispatching chilling letters meant to silence dissent - last week brought an unexpected but welcome development: The University of California announced its campuses will no longer be able to require diversity statements in hiring. [...]
RealClearInvestigations reporter Ben Weingarten addressed a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing today on the Censorship Industrial Complex. [...]
Mike Waltz appeared on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show on Tuesday night to discuss why he added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group text about war plans. [...]
There's no getting around the fact that Signal-gate was a blunder. [...]
Not only was President Biden "grossly incompetent," Donald Trump often complained while out of office, but his successor was a poor leader who refused to hold his own team accountable. "Nobody ever gets fired," Trump said during a Fox and Friends interview last September. "They don't fire anybody." [...]
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change, unleashed fossil fuel production, cut climate subsidies that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and chosen as his Secretary of Energy an oilman who helped create the fracking revolution. [...]
Twenty-first-century policymakers profess a deep commitment to "public health," and they now apply the concept to the problem of violent crime in cities. When Joe Biden took office as president in 2021, for example, he promoted the adoption of public-health interventions to address an uptick of murders; last June, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public-health crisis. [...]
Why Democrats should be worried about the global collapse of traditional party politics. [...]
Iran has sent a response to a letter from US President Donald Trump that called for nuclear talks and warned of possible military action if it refuses, its foreign minister said Thursday. "This official response includes a letter in which our position regarding the current situation and Mr Trump's letter has been fully explained to the other party," Abbas Araghchi told the official IRNA news agency.He added that the letter was delivered to Oman, which has served as an intermediary in the past in the absence of US-Iranian diplomatic relations. [...]
Stefanik is a strong supporter of the president and has been highly critical of the United Nations on Israel-related issues. [...]
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vowed on Thursday there would be "no retreat and no surrender" after rival troops of the regular army retook nearly all of central Khartoum.From inside the recaptured presidential palace, Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo since April 2023, had on Wednesday declared the capital "free" from the RSF. [...]
AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who was arrested this week covering Turkey's worst unrest in more than a decade, was freed Thursday from an Istanbul jail, AFP correspondents said, though his lawyer said the charges against him remain.Akgul was detained in a pre-dawn raid at his home Monday and remanded in custody by an Istanbul court a day later. He was charged with "taking part in illegal rallies and marches", drawing outrage from rights groups and the Paris-based news agency. [...]
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has accused Israel of exploiting followers of his minority faith in Syria as part of a broader plan to divide the Middle East along sectarian lines.Israel wants "to implement the plan it has always had... which is to break up the region into confessional entities and extend the chaos," said Jumblatt, a key figure in Lebanese politics for more than four decades. [...]
A US judge ordered Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to preserve messages from a chat group used by top national security officials to discuss plans for an attack on Yemen's Huthi rebels.The ruling adds to the pressure on the White House after the Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor had been accidentally added to the group on the commercially-available Signal app.Republican Trump has dismissed the scandal as a "witch-hunt" while attacking the Atlantic and its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who broke the story earlier this week. [...]
Iran's top diplomat said today that the Iranians had formally replied to Trump's letter to restart nuclear talks via Oman, which has long served as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington. [...]
Iran's top diplomat said today that the Iranians had formally replied to Trump's letter to restart nuclear talks via Oman, which has long served as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington. [...]
Iran's top diplomat said today that the Iranians had formally replied to Trump's letter to restart nuclear talks via Oman, which has long served as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington. [...]
Iran's top diplomat said today that the Iranians had formally replied to Trump's letter to restart nuclear talks via Oman, which has long served as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington. [...]
The stealth bombers are some of the only warplanes in the US arsenal capable of delivering the massive conventional bombs thought to be needed to effectively damage Iran's underground nuclear facilities. [...]
The stealth bombers are some of the only warplanes in the US arsenal capable of delivering the massive conventional bombs thought to be needed to effectively damage Iran's underground nuclear facilities. [...]
The stealth bombers are some of the only warplanes in the US arsenal capable of delivering the massive conventional bombs thought to be needed to effectively damage Iran's underground nuclear facilities. [...]
The stealth bombers are some of the only warplanes in the US arsenal capable of delivering the massive conventional bombs thought to be needed to effectively damage Iran's underground nuclear facilities. [...]
The Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers will meet soon as the border between the two countries remains volatile following clashes between Lebanese tribal members and Syrian security forces. [...]
The Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers will meet soon as the border between the two countries remains volatile following clashes between Lebanese tribal members and Syrian security forces. [...]
The Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers will meet soon as the border between the two countries remains volatile following clashes between Lebanese tribal members and Syrian security forces. [...]
The Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers will meet soon as the border between the two countries remains volatile following clashes between Lebanese tribal members and Syrian security forces. [...]
Mohammed Hussein Mohammedie was just 19 when he left Iraq and attempted the perilous English Channel crossing in November 2021. He died alongside 26 others when their dinghy sank.His family were refugees from Iran and suffered financial hardship, his father told a UK inquiry into the capsizing of the dinghy in the early hours of November 24, 2021."He wanted to be different. He wanted to be brave," Hussein Mohammedie said of his son's ambitions to leave Iraq, during the final days of the inquiry this week. [...]
Turkey on Thursday stepped up a crackdown on media coverage of mass protests since the arrest of Istanbul's popular mayor, deporting a BBC journalist and imposing a 10-day broadcast ban on an opposition TV channel. The moves came after police detained 11 Turkish journalists, including an AFP photographer, who were covering the worst street protests to hit Turkey since 2013. The protests erupted on March 19 after the arrest and subsequent jailing of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival. [...]
Preston Brashers, Heritage Turns out that it's easy to make people move out of your state: Just raise taxes. Recently, residents of high-tax states such as California, New York, Illinois, and [...]
Stephen McBride, RiskHedge RiskHedge—Disruption Research, Disruptive Technology Stocks—RiskHedge helps investors profit from disruption by providing research on the latest breakthrough [...]
Jeff Remsburg, InvestorPlace AI's impact on wealth concentration … invest in AI, or else … the great AI race with China … how will public policy affect the race? … an AI event with our [...]
Gary Shapiro, RealClear President Trump says he loves tariffs, but that love isn't shared by Main Street or Wall Street. The Trump [...]
Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute The EU should end its competition policy vendetta. Trump should drop his tariffs. [...]
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets History will show that as traditional test scores meant to gauge in-class learning fell in the U.S., so rose the economic prospects of that same U.S. Pundits [...]
Neil Gross, New York Times Feeling empowered is different from numerical growth. [...]
David McGarry, RealClearMarkets "The executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America," the [...]
Medora Lee, USA Today While most Americans look forward to a retirement filled with relaxing moments, accountants warn that unless you're prepared, the months leading up to April 15 may feel [...]
Wayne Duggan, U.S. News & World Report Blue-chip tech stocks are a big part of President Donald Trump's portfolio, according to his latest financial disclosures. [...]
Hayes Brown, MSNBC Between the cuts to the IRS that DOGE is prompting and congressional Republican infighting, the U.S. may crash into the debt ceiling sooner than expected. [...]
M. Walter, American Thinker It's become vogue on the right to trash electric vehicles. And, mostly, we're right to. Most of them are garbage retrofits that rely on a garbage network of chargers [...]
Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]
Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]
Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]
Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]
R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]
Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]
Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]
Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]
I love cooking and dining out pretty equally. The former is meditative and fun, while the latter is a joy, especially when the restaurant is at the top of its game, be it a fine dining establishment or just a simple neighborhood spot doing it well. But most of the time, you won’t find me […] The post Brunch Is Bullshit. Can Someone Please Just Give Me the Lunch Menu? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Want to know what the future holds? You need to meet the people building it. In our series Who’s Next, we profile rising stars of culture, tech, style, wellness and beyond. When Jesse Garcia first signed on to play Richard Montañez, the real-life janitor-turned-Frito-Lay executive who dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, in 2023’s Flamin’ Hot, […] The post From Disney Dad to Nolan Collaborator, Jesse Garcia’s Game for It All appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you’re looking at cross-training as a way to get fit, it’s not hard to see the appeal of rowing, which covers a lot of fitness bases. We’ve had a lot of good things to say about the rowing machines made by Hydrow over the years, and this week the company announced a new partnership […] The post Soho House Announces Hydrow Partnership appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When did we become so defined by our assigned generation? Did it start when Gen X joined the Baby Boomers in calling the grown Millennial generation a bunch of soft participation trophy collectors? Or maybe it was when Gen Z found a succinct way to clap back: “OK boomer.” Actually, it was probably when Millennials […] The post The Novel That Can Bridge the Gap Between Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
First off, no, I didn’t get a chance to try The 51 by The Glenrothes, a just-released 51-year-old whisky from the Speyside estate. But I did get to drink through the rest of the distillery’s range and see The 51 in person. And that packaging alone shatters any expectations you may have about luxury whisky bottlings. […] The post This Might Be the Most Unique Packaging Ever for a Whisky appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Is there anything better than coming home from a long day of work and falling into a bed with fresh linen sheets? Go ahead, try and name something. Oh, you can’t? Thought not. Now let’s talk about getting you some marked-down linen to make that a reality. Bedding and home goods company Parachute (who we’ve […] The post The Linen Sheets of Your Dreams Are 30% Off at Parachute appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sex toy retailer Lovehoney is currently taking up to 70% off during one of its biggest sales of the year. Oftentimes, when large sexual wellness sites host sales, they’ll exclude top products from discounts, so you’re left shopping for less desirable items. This is not to say those items are total garbage, but when it […] The post Lovehoney’s Massive Sale Is the Perfect Time to Beef Up Your BDSM Game appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sales rule. But a secret sale on James Bond’s favorite polo? That’s a whole other level of sick. British label Sunspel is best known for its premium basics in luxe materials — the brand routinely dabbles in luxe cotton, merino and cashmere — and supplying 007, and, if you’re smart, you, too. The brand is throwing […] The post There’s a Secret Sunspel Sale Happening. Here’s What to Buy. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There are few partnerships more consistent than Uniqlo U, the ongoing seasonal collaboration between the Japanese label and Lemaire designers Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran. Enough so that the biannual drop has become something of a holiday for menswear enthusiasts — a routine opportunity to grab expertly designed staples that are both subtle and trendy […] The post Uniqlo U Is Oversized, Affordable Menswear at Its Best appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
What’s in a morning routine? It looks different for everyone, but it probably starts at a reasonable hour and involves a lot of sensible steps. Then there’s this guy, Ashton Hall, an online fitness coach and internet personality with more than 13 million followers on Instagram and TikTok combined. His morning routine is going viral […] The post Think You Have an Intense Morning Routine? Think Again. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
New men’s grooming brands launch all the time nowadays. With more guys putting thought into their moisturizers, shaving creams and grooming tools, it’s only natural that the market is expanding. It can be challenging to weed through the buzz and find effective brands or products that cater to your specific needs and, overall, are worth […] The post The Best Grooming Brands to Know Right Now appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
A couple of years ago, I wrote an extensive explainer on almost every single sexual wellness item I own. From vibrators and arousal topicals to clean-up wipes and lubricants, I detailed the experience of testing each item, listing their pros and cons and, ultimately, if I thought it was worth adding to your own private arsenal. Between this little sexual wellness voyage […] The post Your Sex Chest Checklist, According to a Woman appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s a dark day for manifest destiny truthers: multi-media creatives are now officially more abundant than seasoned ranch hands. This seems to have had little-to-no effect on the prevalence of Western boots, though. If anything, men have become more unified in their acceptance of the shoe silo as a both proper menswear icon and a general […] The post Every Guy Needs a Pair of Cowboy Boots. You Should Start With These. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When speaking with interior design expert Kenzie Elizabeth late last year, she mentioned that often, men don’t have a vision when it comes to decorating their space. “They typically just go grab some stuff and call it a day. They stick with what they know — navy sheets, cold greys — instead of ever trying to make […] The post Take It From a Woman: These Simple Decor Upgrades Will Transform Your Stereotypically Male Space appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“Where did all the good bars go?” David Coggins asks in a recent Esquire hot take. Based on my drinking experiences in the month since that op-ed appeared, I’d say — Chelsea. Lower East Side. SoHo. Greenpoint. Theater District. The point being, even discounting bars I’ve already enjoyed for a long time, I’ve been to […] The post Yes, There Are Still Plenty of Good Bars appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Doxa’s Sub line of deep-diving, tonneau-cased, brightly-colored dive watches have been the hardcore scuba practitioner’s choice for 50 years. Worn by the likes of mega-bestselling author (and avid diver) Clive Cussler — as well as by his famous protagonist Dirk Pitt — the Sub transformed from a niche object into more ubiquitous contemporary favorite because […] The post Doxa Is Introducing a 40mm GMT Dive Watch appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Flagship supercars are rolling totems for mechanical exceptionalism. Unlike your garden variety six-figure, scissor-doored wedges — exotic by any standard — true range-toppers only come around once in a blue moon, packing bleeding-edge tech, eye-watering price tags and ultra-limited production. The McLaren F1 debuted in 1992 as the motorsports brand’s first roadgoing offering, eventually achieving […] The post Jay Leno Said He’d Never Buy Another Supercar. Then Came the McLaren W1. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s a great time to be a fan of menswear. The market for well-made, design-forward clothing has exploded, and with it, tons of incredible apparel and footwear to elevate the common man’s wardrobe into style strata previously unknown. This is certainly true of the current Banana Republic sale, given that virtually the entirety of the […] The post Banana Republic’s Friends and Family Sale Is for Everyone, Actually appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s coronation day! Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has returned, and it’s absolutely littered with stellar deals. In case you live under a rock, the drop-shipping king Amazon has an annual spring deal extravaganza that we eagerly await all winter long. We’re talking loads of high-ticket items marked down at about 50% off or more. During […] The post Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Has Arrived appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“Live like a local.” That’s the message that travel publications and influencers have parroted for years now, a simple piece of advice that can supposedly transform your travels. Help you have a more authentic experience. Except is that really what travelers want? To live like locals when they visit new destinations? On the r/travel subreddit […] The post Is It Virtue Signaling to Want to “Live Like a Local” When Traveling? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Paul Kengor, Spectator The former Reagan speechwriter and Pulitzer Prize winner brought a devout Roman Catholicism, an abundance of wit, and a wealth of insight to his work, which helped [...]
David Alan Johnson, Warfare History Network The American long rifle was a legendarily accurate weapon in the hands of dead-eye frontier marksmen during the Revolutionary War. [...]
Mark Cartwright, World History Encyclopedia Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), leader of Nazi Germany, attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941 with the largest army ever assembled. The Axis offensive of [...]
Claire Barrett, Military Times It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe forever. [...]
Jill Lawless, Military.com Historians consider Gordievsky one of the era's most important spies. [...]
Edward Fishman, Politico A forgotten Nixon-era negotiation offers urgent lessons for our new age of economic warfare. [...]
Alexander Lee, Historytoday A male heir might have saved Queen Mary's reign, and changed the shape of global Catholicism for good. [...]
Nathan Chandler & Yara Simón, HowStuffWorks "Internet cult" Heaven's Gate is seared in the memory of the '90s public for the fact that 39 members committed suicide wearing matching [...]
Aine Quinn, BBC In 1966, a computer dating service organised a party for single people in New York. Decades before Tinder, the BBC's Tomorrow's World was there to witness the future of [...]
Daniel Stone, NatGeo The Japanese sakura trees made their way to America's capital with help from a few unlikely adventurers and advocates. [...]
Moyra Williams Eaton, Time Officials have considered balancing efficiency with providing quality care and listening to veterans essential. [...]
Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Mag Fears of Communism during the Cold War spurred psychological research, pop culture hits, and unethical experiments in the CIA [...]
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]
Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]
Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]
Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]
Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]
Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]
Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]
Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]
It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose 78 percent of fruit, 54 percent of vegetables, and 32 percent of cereal crops. 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 [...]
Greenpeace is facing bankruptcy after a $667,000,000 judgment. For the first time ever, the number of U.S. federal employees declined. Democrats have begun to consider they might be wrongly defending terrorists. They even became pro-vaccine for the first time this century. 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 [...]
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.read more [...]
If you insist you will only eat berries picked by hand near a stream, you are virtue signaling to other wealthy people that you have more money than than they do, while masking it in a halo of claiming to care about taste or renewability or other nature.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 world is producing more food using fewer pesticides than ever, thanks to modern science. The gap between modern pesticide usage and organic food pesticides needed per calorie of food got so large, up to 600% more organic pesticides used, that California stopped itemizing organic pesticides separately to improve the optics of the organic industry.read more [...]
Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly -something that is theoretically possible but only rarely achieved in practice- you are in statistical heaven: you can use the maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation, and you can get to understand a lot about the whole problem. read more [...]
It's no secret that cats have the same α2,3-linked (SAα2,3) sialic acid receptor as birds, which means their mortality from bird flu which acts via that receptor is 50%. Or that raw pet food, raw milk, and organic chickens that refuse medicine are key transmitters of the disease outside the wild.Why are you still buying that stuff? Why did you ever? read more [...]
Environmental lawyers, especially lawyers at Natural Resources Defense Council, exist to sue companies and to have casus belli they need to suggest corporations are killing us all. It is no surprise that NRDC has hired lots of lawyers who are anti-vaccine, anti-cell-phone, anti-food (ingredients, colors, the type of seed), anti-nuclear, etc.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" [...]
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?” read more [...]
The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that food. And stop buying raw milk. All of it. Now. And never start again.read more [...]
Imagine if I put out a claim that I had prevented teens from playing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II" and therefore saving billions in dollars in future mental health care costs.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.read more [...]
When a tourist visits California, the first thing they notice getting off of the airplane is a warning sign that the material they are near will give them cancer. Then another one. Then another. Soon, they become invisible but not before people do searches to see how much more cancer Californians develop than everyone else.(1)Not only will most things in Walmart have a cancer warning, the building itself can give you cancer. Photo: Hank Campbellread more [...]
After a decade of being thrown out by the courts and being slightly modified and enacted again, changes drastically expanding the definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) to include man-made ponds on family farms may finally be ending.read more [...]
The Trump administration announced a major milestone for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory with the installation of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera on the telescope. 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.read more [...]
Today, the best way to prevent malaria remains DDT. Though banned in the US by a politician over the objections of scientists, it is still recommended by the United Nations for use where malaria has not been wiped out. Our FDA even wrote the book on how to spray it in homes.Despite 70 years of effort, viable affordable replacements remain elusive but a new program hopes LLMs could help find one. The National Institutes of Health funded a proposal to use machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to help generate new mosquito repellents.read more [...]
St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, founded by Catholic nuns in 1857, reports implant of Australia’s first BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Invented by Dr. Daniel Timms, it is a single moving part, no valves, and a no-contact suspension system, which means no mechanical wear, and the patient lasted over 100 days while waiting for an artificial heart. He even went home with it installed.The work was led by Dr. Paul Jansz and the anonymous patient was sent home in February. He then received a donor heart early in March.read more [...]
Claims about occupational hazards, chemicals correlated to disease, occur every week, from non-stick spatulas to flame-retardant couches, and the group targeted more by those efforts than pregnant women are first responders like firefighters.A new paper links gliomas in the brain or spinal cords to a specific mutation and then using epidemiological correlation to "suggest" cause from haloalkene, a common chemical in use for 600 years and in the 20th century in nearly every home with fire extinguishers, but then denying they are trying to suggest cause down at the bottom.read more [...]
(Image by Henry Reich) One thing, singular. Two or more things, plural. Subjects must agree with verbs in number: It is, they are. read more [...]
I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they're being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turned scientific differences into policy. It created fairness.If you're in a binary world you may have decided one thing about my beliefs in the first eight words of that paragraph and then something else after the rest of it. If you insist there is no binary in biological sex, I hope you at least consider the existence [...]
