On August 8, 2020 Melissa Berger and I departed on another of backpacking trips into the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. The trip is broken into 3 videos. This is part 2 of the trilogy. The video takes us from Cook Lakes, where...
Read MoreOn August 8th 2020, Melissa Berger and I embarked on another of our trips into the wilderness of the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. This video is Day 1 of that 7-day trip, taking us from Elkhart Park Trailhead 14-1/2 miles to...
Read MoreDay 4 of our trek to Everest Base Camp. It had begun raining earlier in the morning. As we approached Tengboche it began to snow. Next thing you know we were in a full blown snow storm.
Read MoreIn April of 2019 Melissa Berger and Keith Lamparter went to Nepal and attempted the trek to Everest Base Camp. The trek is captured and documented in this video.
Read MoreWhile in Kathmandu, Nepal we went on a tour of temples and religious sites. While there we witnessed a public cremation.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump has the ability to enact long-lasting change by asking GOP lawmakers to cement many of his initial executive actions into law. [...]
Massive protests are out. Democrats are taking a more methodical approach to Donald Trump's second term in office. [...]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop [...]
Shortly after taking the oath of office, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable to every U.S. diplomatic and consular post worldwide. The stark message from the new diplomat: Sweeping changes are coming to a department that had mistakenly emphasized "ideology over common sense" and "misread the world." [...]
The cultural elites' agenda is being dismantled with ruthless efficiency. [...]
In the run-up to Donald Trump's second inaugural address, his staff leaked a remarkable promise: that in this speech, we would see a kinder, gentler Donald Trump. [...]
When Martin Van Buren was inaugurated in March 1837, the weather was gentler than the icy terror that descended upon Washington yesterday to welcome President Trump back to the White House. But there were other remarkable similarities that might help us understand Trumpism as a historical reality that has precedents - and provide an antidote to the liberal hysteria that still swirls around it. [...]
Good afternoon. This is the first of my twice-weekly columns under a new format. The "Morning Note" lasted more than a decade, so it was time for a change. For starters, this newsletter will appear on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. [...]
The dark age of government censorship of online speech is coming to an end with the Executive Order just signed by Donald Trump. [...]
As bad as the prospect of Trump's pursuing revenge prosecutions is, the idea of Biden's pardoning the innocent is potentially worse. [...]
After more than half a century of brandishing the Biden family moniker to trade access to the federal government in exchange for cash, the Biden Crime Family has finally cashed out. [...]
Mr. President, you can implement high tariffs and conduct mass deportations, or you can make life better for Americans. You can't do both. [...]
Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas both have reasons to collapse the agreement. Honest brokers must do all they can to keep it alive, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer's foreign affairs commentator [...]
The nature of the current strategic competition suggests that Trump will need to craft a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine radically different from Theodore Roosevelt's. It will depend on consent from fellow American governments. [...]
the complete history of tiktok's divestiture journey from 2020 to 2025, tiktok dies and trump brings [...]
The controversial amendments were passed alongside laws on land disputes and amnesty for some crimes. [...]
The controversial amendments were passed alongside laws on land disputes and amnesty for some crimes. [...]
The controversial amendments were passed alongside laws on land disputes and amnesty for some crimes. [...]
The controversial amendments were passed alongside laws on land disputes and amnesty for some crimes. [...]
Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit. [...]
Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit. [...]
Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit. [...]
Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit. [...]
Two French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, the second such move by France's judicial authorities, a source said on Tuesday.Assad, who was ousted late last year in a lightning offensive by Islamist forces, is held responsible in the warrant issued on Monday as "commander-in-chief of the armed forces" for a bombing in the Syrian city of Deraa in 2017 that killed a civilian, a source close to the case, asking not to be named, told AFP. [...]
Iran's upper echelons appear to be slowly bridging their gaps over potential dialogue with the new US administration, as the threat of the crippling "maximum pressure" policy looms large. [...]
Iran's upper echelons appear to be slowly bridging their gaps over potential dialogue with the new US administration, as the threat of the crippling "maximum pressure" policy looms large. [...]
Iran's upper echelons appear to be slowly bridging their gaps over potential dialogue with the new US administration, as the threat of the crippling "maximum pressure" policy looms large. [...]
Iran's upper echelons appear to be slowly bridging their gaps over potential dialogue with the new US administration, as the threat of the crippling "maximum pressure" policy looms large. [...]
Trump fired his longtime Iran envoy, Brian Hook, and revoked the security clearance of former national security adviser John Bolton. His pick to be the Pentagon’s next Middle East policy chief, Michael DiMino, has a history of opposing the idea of joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. [...]
Trump fired his longtime Iran envoy, Brian Hook, and revoked the security clearance of former national security adviser John Bolton. His pick to be the Pentagon’s next Middle East policy chief, Michael DiMino, has a history of opposing the idea of joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. [...]
Trump fired his longtime Iran envoy, Brian Hook, and revoked the security clearance of former national security adviser John Bolton. His pick to be the Pentagon’s next Middle East policy chief, Michael DiMino, has a history of opposing the idea of joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. [...]
Trump fired his longtime Iran envoy, Brian Hook, and revoked the security clearance of former national security adviser John Bolton. His pick to be the Pentagon’s next Middle East policy chief, Michael DiMino, has a history of opposing the idea of joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. [...]
The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had launched an operation in the occupied West Bank's Jenin that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said aimed to "eradicate terrorism" in the area.The Palestinian health ministry, based in Ramallah, said the operation had killed 10 people, just days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in the Gaza Strip.In a joint statement, the military and the Shin Bet security agency said that, alongside the Israeli Border Police, they had launched an operation dubbed "Iron Wall" in Jenin. [...]
Donald Trump's nominee to represent Washington at the United Nations railed against "anti-Semitic rot" in the global organization as she was grilled by senators at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday.New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik noted that America contributes more to the UN than any other country and called for reform to ensure its tax dollars were not "propping up entities that are counter to American interests, anti-Semitic, or engaging in fraud, corruption or terrorism." [...]
The Republican lawmaker also told senators she believes Israel has a biblical claim to the entire West Bank. [...]
Reuven Brenner, Law & Liberty In many ways, the entire macroeconomic sector is comparable to astrology. [...]
Diane Harris, The New York Times This year, older workers will have ways to save more for retirement, spend less on medicine and see other ways to improve their finances. [...]
John Tamny, RCM Jack Kemp (1935-2009) always felt Republicans should do well with minorities and immigrants. He saw the Republicans as the party of growth and opportunity, and felt his [...]
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Advisory committees can't do much. [...]
Kevin Madden, Just Maddening What Companies and Organizations Can Learn from College Football's Game Management Theory [...]
Scott Brown, RealClearMarkets Amid the doom and gloom of President Joe Biden's bitter farewell address was a dire warning about " [...]
Stephen McBride, RiskHedge RiskHedge—Disruption Research, Disruptive Technology Stocks—RiskHedge helps investors profit from disruption by providing research on the latest breakthrough [...]
Editorial, Washington Examiner Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not only dividing students at many colleges, it is a waste of tuition and taxpayer dollars and should be reined in. [...]
David Hebert, AIER The only difference between taxes and tariffs is the location of the seller. Regardless, the buyer pays the cost. [...]
Scott Nover, Slate Stock trades move fast. The government moves slower. [...]
Carol Roth, Fox News Estate planning isn't just to make sure that your wishes are carried out. A proper will makes everything easy for your family and puts all the necessary documents in one [...]
Daria Solovieva, Salon Those hoping to buy their first home may be put off by economic pressures [...]
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 [...]
It is no secret we think that grilling and smoking food outdoors is one of life’s greatest pleasures. But depending on where you live, the weather can be an unwelcome factor in your cooking routine. We’ve talked about how to tackle cold-weather grilling, but it’s also possible to run into issues using your smoker when […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Smoking Meat in the Winter appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
You’ve probably heard of your body’s lymphatic system, but what about the glymphatic system? As the authors of a 2022 paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery phrased it, it’s “a fluid clearance pathway in the central nervous system” — in other words, something that clears out old fluids and replaces them with fresh versions on […] The post Research Discovered Something Unsettling About Sleeping Pills’ Effect on the Brain appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The new year is nearly upon us. No, that’s not a typo, nor a not-so-subtle dig at your already-forgotten buying freezes and gym-related resolutions. Rather, a reminder that the Lunar New Year 2025 officially commences on January 29th. With its associations with wisdom and transformation, the imminent Year of the Snake promises big things. In […] The post Fashion Just Found Its New Favorite Holiday appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Luxury loungewear brand Lunya is known for its sustainable, chic collection of pajamas and loungewear for both men and women. What sets the brand apart from similar brands on the market is its commitment to using high-quality, elevated materials, from washable smooth silk to sustainable organic Pima. I’ve been vocal about my love for my Lunya sleep […] The post Lunya’s Chic and Cozy Sleepwear Is Up to 75% Off appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Patagonia might immediately bring to mind images of puffers, fleeces and the dreaded tech-bro vest, but the outdoor retailer is so much more than that; from serious hiking gear to fashion-forward styles to sustainable programming, the brand is chock-full of quality offerings. Currently, the brand is hosting its yearly winter sale, which, you guessed it, […] The post Patagonia’s Winter Sale Doesn’t Play by the Rules appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
You don’t have to dig too deeply to see the full scope of the Grateful Dead’s musical legacy in 2025. In fact, you could probably get a pretty good sense of it just from looking at the lineup for an upcoming benefit concert that’ll also act as a tribute to the psychedelic band in question […] The post An All-Star Lineup Will Celebrate the Grateful Dead Later This Month appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy were initially used — and still are used — to treat diabetes. But in recent years, the uses of this class of drugs have grown in number. Nowadays, Ozempic and its ilk are often used for weight loss — and have shown promise in addressing other health issues. “Promise” […] The post A New Study Explored the Pros and Cons of Drugs Like Ozempic appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Next weekend, two postseason NFL games will determine the lineup for Super Bowl LIX, scheduled to take place in New Orleans. The location is set, but the competitors are not — even so, it’s likely that many diehard fans of the Commanders, Eagles, Bills and Chiefs are weighing their options for traveling to New Orleans […] The post You Can Still Find Affordable Flights to This Year’s Super Bowl appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
According to the American Cancer Society, the last decade and a half has seen a worrying increase in the number of people under 50 being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Their data shows that, from 2012 to 2021, colorectal cancer rates rose 2.4% per year for this demographic. Making matters even more alarming is a new […] The post Why Are More Healthy Eaters Being Diagnosed With Colon Cancer? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you spend a lot of time in hotels, you’ve probably noticed a growing shift in how you can customize your room’s atmosphere. Depending on the hotel, your phone may well have taken the place of everything from a room key to a way to adjust the temperature and lighting in a given space. CitizenM’s […] The post There’s a Growing Market for Hotel Room Climate Automation appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There are extremely large telescopes — and then there’s the Extremely Large Telescope. (This should not be confused with the Very Large Telescope, the European Southern Observatory’s massive facility.) The Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, will be the largest observatory of its kind when its construction and testing are completed […] The post Light Pollution Could Put Extremely Large Telescope at Risk appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Increasing global demand for electric vehicles means an increase in demand for the vessels that transport them. Last year, we reported that Chinese automakers were, on the whole, looking to dramatically expand the number of cargo ships that they use to bring vehicles overseas. This week, EV manufacturer BYD has readied its latest cargo ship […] The post The Ocean Has a New Largest Car Carrier appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The Los Angeles wildfires came up a few times on this week’s Saturday Night Live, the show’s first new episode of the year. Host Dave Chappelle alluded to the fires’ devastation in his (17-minute!) opening monologue, including mentioning colleagues who had lost their homes. Chappelle also took the lead in a sketch about a family […] The post Dave Chappelle and “SNL” Made the Case for Go Bags appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
As our knowledge of science and the human body expands, so too do doctors have more tools at hand when treating cancer. One relatively recent development in this sphere is the use of oncolytic virus therapy, which — as its name suggests — involves using a customized virus to target tumors in the human body, […] The post Scientists Record Breakthrough in Treating Cancer With a Virus appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
A spare tire, power windows, and now — an internet connection. The number of added features that comes with a car or truck is getting bigger every year, but that isn’t always a good thing. Last year, a New York Times investigation explored how onboard driving systems are sharing information with third parties — something […] The post FTC Proposes Restrictions on GM’s Ability to Share Driver Data appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Since 1988, the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company has been a part of a larger brewing empire — first Miller and now Molson Coors. in 2024, Leinenkugel’s parent company made an announcement that devastated many in and around Wisconsin: it would be closing the Leininkugel’s brewery in Chippewa Falls and centralizing operations elsewhere in the state. […] The post Initial Family Offer to Preserve Leinenkugel’s Brewery Is Unsuccessful appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s safe to say that the scope of Real Time With Bill Maher is national. When politics comes up on the show, it’s usually in a national context — but not always. Given that Maher’s frustrations with local politics occasionally come up on the show, it’s not surprising that the L.A. wildfires were the central […] The post Bill Maher’s First “Real Time” of 2025 Took On Wildfires appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you’re a ski enthusiast right now, you may well be mapping out plans to maximize your time heading downhill for as long as the weather permits. For some skiiers, the ideal ski trip involves a mountain close to home; for others, the destination is part of the adventure. Breckenridge, Colorado has long enjoyed a […] The post Breckenridge’s Newest Hotel Offers Prime Access for Skiiers appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In August of 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began negotiating drug prices for 10 different types of medication covered by Medicare Part D. The groundwork for the negotiations was established under the Inflation Reduction Act, and it didn’t stop with the initial 10. Now the same agency has announced the next […] The post Medicare Reveals Plans for Ozempic Price Negotiations appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Of all the questions I’ve been asked regularly by friends, family and readers in my capacity as a person who is inclined to obsess over anything in which I have even a passing interest, the one I hear the most is some variation of, “Can you recommend a turntable setup that isn’t super expensive but also not […] The post From Our EIC: This Is the Best Turntable Setup for Beginners appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Christian D. Orr, The National Interest You need to score five aerial kills to become an ace, so there's something numerically poetic about the fact that there were indeed a total of five [...]
Pablo Diaz, Aviacionline During the Vietnam War, a CIA-operated Bell 205 helicopter made history by shooting down a modified North Vietnamese An-2 bomber near Lima Site 85, a secret U.S. [...]
Blake Stilwell, Military.com Forensics labs need Americans with 18th-century ancestral ties to the states of Maryland, Delaware or North Carolina to come forward for genetic testing. [...]
Patty Nieberg, Task & Purpose "Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points" — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during the Advanced Military Studies [...]
Ryan Stanton, MLive Many tales are told of World War II, but not widely known is the story of a sergeant from Ann Arbor and his decorated monkey friend Pat P. Pat. [...]
Jason Dookeran, TheTravel Let's take a look at what happened when students accidentally discovered a US Civil War site, and what this could mean for history! [...]
Peter Z. Grossman, RealClearHistory Few of the many encomiums to the late Jimmy Carter mentioned the domestic issue he regarded most crucial. As he put it a couple years after his [...]
Patrick Oppmann, CNN More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 years after the canal was returned to Panama [...]
Jordan Friedman, HISTORY A 1929 prepaid hospital plan created in Dallas gave rise to early health insurance companies—and helped spur the growth of a major industry. [...]
Erin Blakemore, NatGeo First proposed nearly a century back and approved by Congress 50 years ago, does the beleaguered constitutional amendment have another chance? [...]
Dean A. Irwin, Historytoday The first year of Edward I's reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It set the path to their expulsion. [...]
Benjamin T. Jones, The Conversation Outgoing United States president Joe Biden has warned 'an oligarchy is taking shape in America'. What is an oligarchy? And is America becoming one? [...]
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 [...]
Soybeans greatly benefit from nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which reduces the need for fertilizer, and a new study shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth as well. Agricultural scientists tested products from Pivot Bio called PROVEN and PROVEN 40, which includes one and two species of soil bacteria, respectively, that turn atmospheric nitrogen into plant-available forms. An edited gene involved in nitrogen fixation makes more of it available so more of it at planting means the bacteria colonize plant roots.read more [...]
If you want to avoid ticks in the woods, wear long clothing or use a scientifically-proven repellent like DEET, IR3535 , or picaridin. Forget products claiming they are 'green' or have citronella, there is a reason that people who buy alternatives to DEET are over-represented in getting lyme disease. Alternatives don't work and, if you are in the northeast, 50% of adult ticks will carry Lyme disease bacteria so you are flipping a coin by avoiding science.read more [...]
The Biden administration recently issued a new report showing causal links between alcohol and cancer, and it's about time. The link has been long-known, but alcohol carcinogenic properties have been waved away with 'use in moderation' rhetoric. We don't tell young people to use cigarettes 'in moderation', even though nicotine doesn't cause cancer, only cigarettes smoke does, so that alcohol has gotten political free pass shows science is always second to politics.read more [...]
In British Iron Age society, land was inherited through the female line and husbands moved to live with the wife’s community. Strong women like Margaret Thatcher resulted.That was inferred due to DNA sequenced from members of a single community, over 50 ancient genomes from a set of burial grounds in Dorset, that were in use before and after the Romans tried to do in AD 43 what they did to Israel a few decades later. They reconstructed a family tree with many different branches and found most members traced their maternal lineage back to a single woman from centuries before [...]
If a giant bọ biển (“sea bug”) in Vietnam hasn't been 'named' by an academic in a journal, does it really exist?Yes, because they are impossible to miss. Isopods of the genus Bathynomus are 10 inches long so they are hard to miss, but discovery is a lucrative business in academia so a new one has been named and because the authors say it looks like Darth Vader from "Star Wars" they have deemed it Bathynomus vaderi. read more [...]
Production of most major foods involve nitrate and phosphate fertilizers, but excessive fertilizer use is bad for the environment. That is why scientists came up with modern technologies that use less fertilizer and, on the other end, fewer pesticides. But some countries or processes like "organic" ban modern products, so their nitrogen runoff is excessive. Perhaps a new form of genetic engineering will be the first product to be allowed under their marketing guidelines since Mutagenesis. read more [...]
In 2018, two black men were arrested in Philadelphia because that Starbucks store had a policy that did not allow people to use their facilities without purchasing something. Social Justice Warriors declared that racist and Starbucks changed their policy. Anyone could use the restrooms and anyone could take up seats, or smoke, or drink alcohol out of a paper bag.read more [...]
In a world where food is affordable and choice is high, some people will not have impulse control. Forget conspiracy mumbo-jumbo about corporations and ultraprocessed foods and addiction, some human somewhere will have fetishized everything so such an "addiction" means nothing, what is true is that foods are more delicious than ever and some people will eat too much.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIYK9Xffy0?si=ZA-bGA9rWKQkvZev&w=560&h=315]read more [...]
Despite nearly two decades of marketing campaigns insisting bees are in decline and science is to blame, the data show otherwise. Bees are not entirely irrelevant in the food supply, and do valuable pollination work in nature, but there are 25,000 other species of bees that are important also, it is only in boutique agriculture that honeybees are meaningful to our food supply.For crops like almonds, bees are rented. They are flown on planes or shipped on trucks and do their work and then go somewhere else. California only has 1.3 million acres of almond trees, which means about 2.6 [...]
The tide of culture has shifted away from more centralized government control and the social authoritarianism it brings. While those who ideologically profited from the 'old Twitter' and have all scampered to Bluesky to only talk to each other, the rest of the world is now trying to be mainstream again.read more [...]
I'm a Steelers guy now but I was a late fan. Where I was young in Pennsylvania, three teams in New York and two in Pennsylvania were the same distance to drive - and we did not drive to any of them. So I remained a Cowboys fan.(1) My brother, though, was an Eagles fan of early on. And he's never wavered.Ants think that's the proper way to be. Eagle fans hold grudges and ants respect that, but there is no comparison between the level of grudge Philadelphia has against Michael Strahan or Terrell Owens or Kevin Allen or Jerome McDougle and what [...]
In early 2015, a small group of scientists and doctors noted that Dr. Mehmet Oz, famed TV physician and real-life surgeon at Columbia, was promoting so much quackery that the university should remove him from their ranks.The knives immediately came out among progressive journalists in corporate media. The doctors and scientists criticizing Oz were "corporate shills" and the nonprofits they were affiliated with were suspect and probably front groups for Big Tobacco and Monsanto and probably racist against Muslims.read more [...]
If you want to know where someone is most likely to steal your package, the short answer if you want to stop reading is Washington, DC. The nation's capitol. Infer from that what you will. The cost may be up to $12 billion each year.read more [...]
No one wants to diet, everyone wants a miracle pill, and that is why supplements are a $35 billion industry in America, despite being mostly placebos. Weight loss therapies, even those with side effects, are all the rage with thin culture - because they work.Still, who wouldn't want to stay thin without a shot in the butt?read more [...]
Senator Tom Coburn used to do an annual report of the most ridiculous abuses of taxpayer money and it always got attention because his Wastebook didn't care if the party behind it was Republican or Democrat, he was a towering figure in fiscal conservatism.You work hard for your money and he wanted you to know when government squandered it. A Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska or a 'study' of how college students use cellphones, none of it should have been using taxpayer funding, but those and many others were.read more [...]
Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their apex status to other areas.The paper in the pay-to-publish journal Environmental Research Letters analyzed over 40 years of climate conditions they correlate to the growth cycle, bud break to fruit, of apple trees. They sound the alarm that the largest apple-producing counties in the US (Yakima in Washington, Kent in Michigan and Wayne in New York) have already been impacted.read more [...]
Blood samples of pregnant women have detectable levels of chemicals and that 'chemical cocktail' may pose "neurotoxic risk", according to a paper published in Science whose senior author is strangely on the board of reviewing editors at Science.This "chemical cocktail" nomenclature has been popular among activists like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other environmental lawyers for decades, because it needs no science, it instead means science 'needs more testing', and there will never be enough testing.read more [...]
The Biden administration issued a report showing alcohol's causal link to cancer. Not just statistical woo, like epidemiologists "correlating" virtual pollution ({PM2.5) to things like insomnia and lower scores in first grade, or weedkillers to anything an environmental lawyer can dream up, serious evidence.read more [...]
During Christmas holidays I tend to indulge in online chess playing a bit too much, wasting several hours a day that could be used to get back on track with the gazillion research projects I am currently trying to keep pushing. But at times it gives me pleasure, when I conceive some good tactical sequence. Take the position below, from a 5' game on chess.com today. White has obtained a winning position, but can you win it with the clock ticking? (I have less than two minutes left for the rest of the game...)read more [...]
Cigarette smoking is in steady decline because the evidence became overwhelming that cigarette smoke causes cancer. It is not dumb epidemiology, like that 'organic food is linked to better grades in children' or 'virtual pollution may be why your income isn't higher' and whatever else the International Agency for Research on Cancer or National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is trying to scare the public about this month.Smoking, be it cigarettes or marijuana, is very bad.(1) Yet while while the federal government rightly joined us in criticizing cigarettes, they gave alcohol a free pass. read more [...]
