Keith Lamparter and Melissa Berger backpack into the Wind River Range of Wyoming for a 7-day, 40-mile hike into the wilderness crossing the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains twice, traversing two wilderness areas, Bridger and Popo-Agie, and visited two significant glaciers at Washakie and Camels Hump/Lizard Head.
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The media's power to dictate narratives and force political action has crumbled. Republican leaders now simply say [...]
The discussion revealed unserious people who don't know when to keep quiet, with Stephen Miller as the real boss [...]
The campus diversity regime, at the Ivy League school and elsewhere, won't go down without a fight. [...]
When Vice President J.D. Vance spoke earlier this week at Andreessen Horowitz's [...]
Columbia University announced on Friday that interim president Dr. Katrina Armstrong has stepped down effective immediately. [...]
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary [...]
Maybe targeting John Roberts's law school classmates is a bad idea? [...]
Congress is taking action to curb activist judges and nationwide injunctions blocking Trump's agenda. Learn how new bills can curb corruption. [...]
My own trip to Nuuk showed me you can't just rock up and attempt to bend all that bleak, rugged terrain to your will [...]
'If a commercial company operated the way the federal government does, it would immediately go bankrupt ... the officers would be arrested.' [...]
When President Donald Trump came into office, he committed to ensuring our foreign policy aligned with our nation's interests. To realize his vision, we are putting our region, the Americas, first. [...]
Syria's new government, dominated by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's inner circle, faces the daunting challenge of gaining the trust of Syrians, as well as that of Western countries to secure sanctions relief.The transitional 23-member cabinet -- without a prime minister -- was announced on Saturday, more than three months after Sharaa's Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led an offensive that toppled longtime president Bashar al-Assad. [...]
For the second consecutive year, traditional Eid al-Fitr celebrations marking the end of Ramadan were absent in Gaza on Sunday, as residents of the Palestinian territory awoke to the roar of Israeli bombardment."Eid, which was once a day of family reunions and visits, has now become a day of farewells and funerals," said Nahla Abu Matar, a 28-year-old mother, speaking to AFP.Like hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents, she has been displaced from her home in northern Gaza and is now living in the southern area of Khan Yunis. [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered to let Hamas leaders leave Gaza but demanded the group abandon its arms, as his country kept up its bombardment of the Palestinian territory.Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike on a house and tent sheltering displaced Palestinians killed at least eight people, including five children.The strike hit Khan Yunis on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. [...]
The head of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces admitted in a speech to fighters on Sunday that the group had withdrawn from the capital Khartoum which rival army forces have retaken.The comment from RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo came three days after the group said there would be "no retreat and no surrender" and that its forces had "repositioned", despite the army's declaration on Thursday that "the last pockets" of the RSF had been eliminated from Khartoum after nearly two years of war. [...]
Iranian police have dispersed a weeks-long sit-in by demonstrators supporting the mandatory head covering for women, state media reported, after authorities deemed the gathering illegal. The demonstrators -- largely women in black full-body robes -- staged the sit-in since last month outside the parliament building in Tehran. Since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, women have been required to conceal their hair in public. However, increasing numbers, particularly in major cities including the capital Tehran, have pushed the boundaries by allowing the covering to slide back. [...]
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday announced a new transitional government dominated by close allies and including one woman, replacing caretaker authorities in place since the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.The announcement, initially scheduled for earlier this month, comes amid international calls for an inclusive Syrian transition following recent sectarian bloodshed, as the country's new leaders seek to reunite and rebuild Syria and its institutions after Assad's December 8 overthrow brought an end to 14 years of civil war. [...]
A top Hamas official said on Saturday the group approved a new Gaza ceasefire proposal put forth by mediators, urging Israel to back it but warning the Iran-backed group's weapons were a "red line".Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed it had also received a proposal from the mediators and had submitted a counter-proposal in response. [...]
US government lawyers pushed Friday for the case of a pro-Palestinian protest leader slated for deportation to be moved to a Louisiana court thought to be sympathetic to President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil -- a prominent face of the protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's war in Gaza -- was arrested and taken to Louisiana earlier this month, sparking protests. Several other foreign student protesters have been similarly targeted. [...]
Marwa fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan because she wanted to study, work, wear jeans and go to the park without a male chaperone. Now she is under lock and key in Costa Rica, along with hundreds of other migrants expelled by the United States to third countries in Central America.Costa Rica is one of three Central American countries, along with Panama and Guatemala, that have agreed to receive migrants from other countries and to detain them until they are sent to their home nations or other host countries. [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologized Friday for failing to defend an Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker who said he was attacked by Israeli settlers.The group, which hosts and awards the Oscars each year, wrote to members after movie stars including Joaquin Phoenix, Penelope Cruz and Richard Gere had slammed its initially muted response to the incident.The Academy "condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world" and its leaders "abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances," said the letter, seen by AFP. [...]
Tehran's response to Trump's letter has been conveyed via Oman, raising hopes among Iranian moderates that a deal could be around the corner, despite earlier incendiary rhetoric from both sides. [...]
Tehran's response to Trump's letter has been conveyed via Oman, raising hopes among Iranian moderates that a deal could be around the corner, despite earlier incendiary rhetoric from both sides. [...]
Tehran's response to Trump's letter has been conveyed via Oman, raising hopes among Iranian moderates that a deal could be around the corner, despite earlier incendiary rhetoric from both sides. [...]
Tehran's response to Trump's letter has been conveyed via Oman, raising hopes among Iranian moderates that a deal could be around the corner, despite earlier incendiary rhetoric from both sides. [...]
Large crowds took to the streets in the capitals of Iran, Iraq and Yemen on Friday for the annual show of support for Palestinians and denunciation of Israel.Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations were launched in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, which has made support for the Palestinian cause a cornerstone of its foreign policy.The marches, which call for Jerusalem to be returned to the Palestinians, are traditionally held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. [...]
China’s approach to Syria will likely hinge on what the new government does about the Uyghurs in its ranks. [...]
China’s approach to Syria will likely hinge on what the new government does about the Uyghurs in its ranks. [...]
China’s approach to Syria will likely hinge on what the new government does about the Uyghurs in its ranks. [...]
China’s approach to Syria will likely hinge on what the new government does about the Uyghurs in its ranks. [...]
With the jailing of Istanbul's mayor on corruption charges, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has got rid of his most powerful opponent. Now his sights are set on the main opposition CHP, analysts say."When the big fishes are exposed, they won't dare to look their own families in the eye, let alone the nation," the president warned this week, hinting at a fresh legal action targeting the Republican People's Party (CHP). [...]
Ludovic Subran, Barrons Can Trump boost manufacturing without Wall Street? [...]
Gillian Tett, Financial Times Some advisers now view the price of the fossil fuel as a crucial anti-inflation tool [...]
Stephen Taub, II Institutional Investor reports that the top 25 managers made a combined total of $30 billion, just shy of the record set in 2020. [...]
John Tamny, RCM Right and Left, Republicans and Democrats brought great shame on themselves with their efforts to ban TikTok. Pizza Hut crystalizes the previous truth. Before [...]
Clay Risen, Politico A scrappy law firm decided to represent federal workers accused of disloyalty and survived to become a legal behemoth. [...]
Phil Bell, RealClear 2025 saw Washington, DC shaken to its core by President Trump's establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Far [...]
Alex Travelli, New York Times An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities. [...]
Sarah Morgenthau & Doug Levinson, RealClearMarkets When Vice President J.D. Vance spoke earlier this week at Andreessen Horowitz's "American [...]
Bret Swanson, Infomena A conflict of visions helps explain the origin of the war – and how to resolve it. Foreign Policy Geniuses focus on rhetoric, but we argue facts, strategy, and [...]
Jennie Jones, FEE In our interest-led learning environment, we foster collaboration by holding monthly brainstorming sessions to decide how to use our monthly budget. The kids [...]
Lori Wallach, The American Prospect Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs are incoherent, but that should not discredit targeted tariffs paired with investment as a policy lever. [...]
Mitu Gulati, Reuters Britain borrowed roughly $4 billion from the U.S. during World War One. Afterwards, London resisted repayment, asking for the debt to be forgiven. [...]
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 [...]
For years, Southwest Airlines has offered travelers a distinctive flying experience — one that’s historically involved open seating and free checked bags. Change is on the horizon for the airline, however, and in the last year Southwest has announced the end of its open seating policy and a plan to start charging for checked bags. […] The post Southwest Airlines Is Changing Its Boarding Process Even More appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
To encounter the history of medicine is to encounter the history of unexpected scientific discoveries. The discovery of penicillin is perhaps the best-known case of a surprising medical breakthrough, but it’s far from alone. And the latest addition to this branch of the annals of science involves a discovery that could help treat e. coli […] The post Researchers Found Promising Antibiotic In Garden Soil appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Spend enough time reading about hot bakeries and pop-up stores and you’ll inevitably wind up reading about something else: waiting on line. An Eater article from 2023 came with the headline “How NYC’s Bakery Lines Became as Fierce as Streetwear Drops,” while Grub Street’s article on a new location of Brooklyn’s Radio Bakery began with […] The post This Week’s “SNL” Asked: Do We Have a Line Problem? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If the phrase “Google Adwords” rings a bell for you, you might also remember the early days of a lawsuit surrounding one of Google’s advertising products from a bygone era. (Google hasn’t used the Adwords name since 2018.) More than a decade after it was first filed, this lawsuit appears to be on the brink […] The post Google Nears Settlement in Decade-Old Lawsuit appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you’ve ever experienced lower back pain — and it’s hardly a rare occurrence, especially as people age — you’re well aware of its debilitating effects, both in terms of the pain itself and for its effects other movement you might try to make over the course of the day. There’s another concern for researchers […] The post Lower Back Pain Drug Shows Promising Results appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Elon Musk’s oft-documented fondness for naming companies variations of “X” may have had its “Who’s on first?” moment this week with the announcement that xAI has acquired X, formerly known as Twitter. (This is not to be confused with the recent sale of Twitter’s old signage.) What does it mean for one Musk-owned company to […] The post Elon Musk’s xAI Just Acquired Elon Musk’s X appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
What can prompt a commercial flight from pulling a 180 and returning back to its point of departure or a nearby airport? Sometimes, a sick or disruptive passenger can the reason; at others, a mechanical issue that puts the flight’s safety at risk. This year, we’ve also witnessed another factor in flights returning home: pilots […] The post Lost Smartphone Sends Air France Flight Back to Airport appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“First up, we have a podcaster.” That’s something of an understatement. It’s how Bill Maher introduced the first guest on this week’s episode of Real Time; the guest in question was California governor Gavin Newsom, whose recent foray into podcasting has gotten mixed reviews. If nothing else, though, Maher seemed to be an enthusiastic fan […] The post Podcasters and Pronouns Turned Up on a New “Real Time With Bill Maher” appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Some ambitious shots have become part of cinematic history. Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil begins with a lengthy tracking shot that establishes the film’s setting, characters and conflict. Decades later, Robert Altman opened The Player with a long tracking shot as an homage of sorts to Welles’s film, complete with a reference to it in […] The post There’s a Reason More TV Shows and Movies Are Using Long Takes appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When it comes to engines with history, the Hemi V8 stands especially tall, powering a variety of high-performance vehicles for over seven decades. At a time when the idea of what constitutes a muscle car is in flux, it isn’t always clear what place a classic engine would have in the 2020s. As it turns […] The post Dodge Is Reportedly Bringing the Hemi V8 Back to the Charger appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Is it wise to put your money in a whisk(e)y cask with an eye towards investing it for the future? There’s been a lot written about this very subject — but there’s one big thing that any would-be investors should be sure to know from the outset. That’s that the cask you’re investing in actually […] The post A New Investment Scam Targets UK Whiskey Enthusiasts appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
At a time when social media is oversaturated with self-appointed fitness influencers, it’s hard to know who’s the real deal. We’d suggest following Korey Rowe. The founder of the KR Method, a workout protocol that blends strength training and mobility exercises, Rowe recently brought his expertise to Centr, the fitness app founded by Chris Hemsworth. […] The post The Kit: What Korey Rowe Uses to Train, Fuel and Recover appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the forest. The only noises I hear are kingfishers trilling, leaves rustling as capuchins race across the treetops and the distant bellowing of a hippo. But […] The post Searching for Endangered Forest Elephants in the Republic of Congo appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Each week, our inbox runneth over with news of gear, apparel and tech releases from around the world. In this feature, we’ll parse through the best of it. Today: A new colorful holiday collection from Rimowa drops, a collab betewen A$AP Rocky and Puma is released into the world and Woodford Reserve releases their Kentucky […] The post Products of the Week: Pumas, Derby Bourbon and Rimowa Suitcases appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
On Running dropped the “Running” and became On a few years ago — it’s cleaner — in a prudent play to become an open-ended performance label. It made sense: the Swiss brand counted Roger Federer as one of its early investors, and leveraged the legend’s influence to leapfrog into the tennis sector. The logo’s been […] The post My New Favorite Running Jacket Is a Tennis Jacket appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
People like yourself might not have all day to online shop…which is why we’re committed to doing it for you every week. No need to thank us or anything. From a lightweight Levi’s coat to groovy sunglasses from Persol, these are the best deals we’ve found on the internet this week. The Best Deals on […] The post From Harrington Jackets to Persols: The Best Deals on the Internet This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Here at InsideHook, we talk about transitional outerwear a lot. You might even say we’re obsessed with it. And for good reason (at least, we think so). The right layer is the difference between a comfortable day and a chilly one, yes, but moreso, an opportunity to add a whole new dimension of color, texture […] The post Let Paul Stuart Sort Out Your Suede This Spring appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Although I was a vegetarian for seven formative years, from age 17 to 24, I knew more about Taco Bell’s vegetarian menu than I did about macronutrients. When I decided to try meat again, I reverted to my childhood meal of choice, a salami sandwich with yellow mustard. Sure, I had an immediate stomachache, but […] The post The Dietary Change That Brought My Energy Back appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
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 Christopher Nolan Collaborator, Jesse Garcia’s Game for It All appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
William J. Luti, RealClearHistory "The bombers kept coming," the late Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale recounted in his extraordinary 1984 memoir In Love and War, "and we kept cheering." [...]
Peter Kramer, Historytoday The popularity of the sci-fi epic Star Wars proved timely for Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative. [...]
Becky Little, HISTORY The constitutional framers may have viewed indigenous people of the Iroquois Confederacy as inferior, but that didn't stop them from admiring their federalist [...]
Vittorio Bufacchi, The Conversation The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the US. [...]
David Beito, RealClearHistory Margaret Brennan, the moderator of Face the Nation, recently stated matter-of-factly that the Nazis had "weaponized free speech" to bring [...]
Joshua J. Mark, World History Encyclopedia The 1811 German Coast Uprising (8-11 January 1811) was the largest slave revolt in US history involving between 300-500 enslaved and free Blacks in [...]
Clay Risen, Politico A scrappy law firm decided to represent federal workers accused of disloyalty and survived to become a legal behemoth. [...]
John Hanna, Military.com Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give control of covert activities to the State [...]
Hidetaka Hirota, Time In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories. [...]
Julian Humphrys, HistoryExtra The Second World War saw one of the most epic tank battles in history, as the Germans and the Soviets clashed near Kursk. Julian Humphrys tells the [...]
Robert Heege, Warfare History Network The Medieval Catapult was one of the most fearsome middle age weapons ever produced. Read on to find out why. [...]
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 [...]
In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same pattern happened also on social media - have progressively shifted away from pure casual blogging and reporting of personal matters to a more focused discussion of scientific topics, always lingering around my research interests. read more [...]
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.read more [...]
When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS, and too many products to count.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)read more [...]
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. read more [...]
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 [...]
