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During an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk seemed to contemplate the existence of what used to be called the [...]
Fifty years ago, lawmakers started lifting the lid on the shocking abuses of the new Bureau chief's most famous predecessor. The trouble is, very little changed. [...]
Kash Patel was sworn in Friday afternoon as Donald Trump's FBI Director, delivering this statement after taking the oath of office: [...]
A European troop commitment is not the way to end this war-or prevent the next one. [...]
While the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have been clashing violently on the bloody battlefields of Eastern Europe, a parallel war has long been underway in the media sphere, where armies of information warriors have battled to shape the ways Western publics think about the conflict. [...]
Article III Project founder Mike Davis writes that the U.S. Supreme Court must stop lower level federal judges from usurping President Trump's executive authority. [...]
This could be the opening Democrats need to re-engage Latinos who have been waiting for someone to stand up. [...]
Democrats don't just lack a message - they also lack a messenger. [...]
Lots of ink has been spilled over the past three weeks regarding the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This isn't the first time a new administration has attempted to address what it saw as government bloat. Most recently, the Clinton administration tasked then-Vice President Al Gore with the job. Unlike the positive press received by the former vice president and his reinventing government initiative, the media has principally focused on the intentional ham-handedness of Elon Musk and his band of boy geniuses. [...]
The heavy emphasis on Pride Month, to the exclusion of every other holiday, sent a message to these young students: The celebration of sexuality is sacred. [...]
Today on TAP: It's really all about blocking former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. [...]
Trade tariffs grab headlines but the less-visible fight around money matters deeply to the president [...]
The war that broke out on Oct. 7, 2023, has brought the Palestinian issue back to the forefront of the global, Middle Eastern, and Israeli agenda. The debate over how to address it - let alone resolve it - continues as it has for the past half-century, and in various forms - for more than a century. Why have all attempts at an agreement failed since the Oslo Accords, and what does this suggest about the prospects for resolving the conflict? In light of its frustrating persistence, the conflict continues to generate a range of opposing assessments and proposals regarding [...]
Trust in media starts in rural America with a full overhaul of the Fourth Estate [...]
Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians.The military one month ago began a major raid against Palestinian militants in the West Bank just after a truce began in the Gaza Strip, another Palestinian territory.The Israeli operation in the West Bank spans multiple refugee camps near the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas. [...]
Hamas on Sunday said Israel has gravely endangered a five-week-old Gaza truce by delaying the release of Palestinian prisoners under the deal because of the manner it has freed Israeli hostages.The first phase of the truce ends early in March and details of a planned subsequent phase have not been agreed.With tensions again hanging over the deal -- which halted more than 15 months of war -- Israel on Sunday announced an expansion of military operations in the occupied West Bank. [...]
Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in black vowed support for Hezbollah at the Beirut funeral of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah Sunday, after the group was dealt major blows in its last round of hostilities with Israel.Women wailed as a black truck carrying the coffins of Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine -- Nasrallah's chosen successor killed in another Israeli air strike before he could assume the post -- slowly moved through the crowd, topped with two black turbans and draped in Hezbollah's yellow flag. [...]
Inspired by LeBron James and Roger Federer, Russian 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva wrapped up a fairytale week in Dubai by becoming the youngest ever WTA 1000 champion with victory over Clara Tauson on Saturday.After ousting three Grand Slam winners, including second-seeded Iga Swiatek, en route to the final, Andreeva ended Tauson's own dream run at the tournament with a 7-6 (7/1), 6-1 victory against the Dane. [...]
Japan's Forever Young hunted down Hong Kong racing royalty Romantic Warrior to land the world's richest race, the $20 million Saudi Cup in Riyadh on Saturday.Romantic Warrior is the highest-earning racehorse of all time, turning up at the Saudi capital with almost $23 million (22m euros) in the bank.The seven-year-old gelding looked destined to add significantly to his prize pot when he went well clear round the home turn in this his first ever outing on dirt. [...]
Family and friends of released Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov clapped, burst into tears and popped bottles of champagne as they watched him walk free on Saturday after being handed over by Hamas in Gaza.Shem Tov was among six Israeli captives freed by Palestinian militants as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner swap to take place under the first phase of a fragile truce which took effect last month.Militants released four hostages seized in Hamas's unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and two men who had been held captive for a decade. [...]
Hamas paraded five Israeli hostages, some looking dazed and others elated, before cheering crowds at two meticulously recorded ceremonies in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.In the first well-rehearsed morning ceremony in Rafah, Hamas fighters stood in an orderly fashion as they handed over hostages Tal Shoham and Avera Mengistu, who walked with apparent difficulty, to the Red Cross. [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that freeing Palestinian prisoners under the Gaza ceasefire deal will be delayed until Hamas ends its "humiliating ceremonies" while releasing Israeli hostages.Since the ceasefire came into effect on January 19, Hamas has released 25 Israeli hostages in well-rehearsed handovers, with masked militants parading the captives on stage and forcing them to wave at Gazans gathered to watch. [...]
Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war. [...]
Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war. [...]
Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war. [...]
Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war. [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to step up its operations in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he paid a rare visit to troops in the territory that drew Palestinian condemnation.Netanyahu's visit to Tulkarem refugee camp in the north of the territory came after bombs that Israeli officials said resembled those used by militants in the West Bank exploded on multiple buses in central Israel on Thursday.The prime minister's office said he ordered more "operational activity" in the northern West Bank in response to the bomb blasts. [...]
On Thursday, a Russian national suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy was arrested by German authorities, and in a separate incident on Friday, a stabbing occurred at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. [...]
On Thursday, a Russian national suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy was arrested by German authorities, and in a separate incident on Friday, a stabbing occurred at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. [...]
On Thursday, a Russian national suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy was arrested by German authorities, and in a separate incident on Friday, a stabbing occurred at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. [...]
On Thursday, a Russian national suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy was arrested by German authorities, and in a separate incident on Friday, a stabbing occurred at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. [...]
Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope of reviving their ancient heritage before the community dies out. This week, a small number of Jews living in Damascus, along with others from abroad, held a group prayer for the first time in more than three decades, in the Faranj synagogue in Damascus's Old City."There were nine of us Jews (in Syria). Two died recently," community leader Bakhour Chamntoub told AFP in his home in the Old City's Jewish quarter. [...]
Arab leaders met in Riyadh on Friday to craft a plan for Gaza's post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump's proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian residents.Trump's plan has united Arab states in opposition to it, but disagreements remain over who should govern Gaza and how its reconstruction can be funded.A photo from the meeting showed the kingdom's de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the leaders of other Gulf Arab states, as well as Egypt and Jordan. [...]
Preparations for Sunday’s funeral for Hassan Nasrallah are underway as massive crowds are expected to attend. [...]
Stephen McBride, RiskHedge RiskHedge—Disruption Research, Disruptive Technology Stocks—RiskHedge helps investors profit from disruption by providing research on the latest breakthrough [...]
Luke Lango, InvestorPlace Humanoid robots are stepping out of science fiction and into reality, possibly poised to become the most disruptive AI advancement yet. [...]
Maryalene LaPonsie, U.S. News & World Report There's a lot happening in the federal government, and American retirees could see changes in their budgets and benefits as a result. [...]
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets "I keep a button on my desk that says 'Life?' Of course I have a life. It's a life filled with books." Those are the words of Michael Dirda, Pulitzer [...]
Todd & Erik Gregory, American Thinker In their desperation to shield the U.S. Treasury Department from the DOGE forensics team, Democrats and most media are wailing that Elon Musk is unelected [...]
Kimberly Clausing, New York Times President Trump is remaking the tax code to favor the well-off even more and cloaking these changes in a veneer of nationalism. [...]
Bruce Thompson, RCM The top priority of Congressional Republicans is to extend the 2017 tax cuts to avoid a $4 trillion tax increase. That should be an easy task. But House Republicans [...]
F. Vincent Vernuccio, USAT Thousands of federal employees saw value in President Donald Trump's buyout offer. They did so for many reasons − reasons that unions ignored. [...]
Marc Short, Fox News I worked for Donald Trump when we got his tax cut bill through Congress. Now, Republicans have a tiny majority and must work together or get blamed for $4 trillion-plus in [...]
David DesRosiers, RealClearPolitics A proud moment. [...]
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Faux "efficiency" efforts at the IRS make life easier for tax-dodging elites. [...]
Rohini Kosoglu, RealClearMarkets America is running out of skilled workers. Across industries, businesses are struggling to fill high-paying roles that [...]
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 [...]
Limestone Branch Distillery has earned high marks for its spirits — including Yellowstone Bourbon, which combines a well-crafted whiskey with a fundraising partnership with the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. This month, that partnership reached an impressive milestone, with Yellowstone Bourbon announcing that they’ve officially donated one million dollars to the NPCA since 2018. To […] The post Yellowstone Bourbon Just Reached a National Park Donation Milestone appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There’s a long history of ambient music, both conceptually and as a genre. It didn’t necessarily begin with Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports, though that’s not a bad place to start, and a trip further back into musical history might involve stopping off with both composer Erik Satie and the creation of Muzak. […] The post ODESZA Created an Eight-Hour Version of the “Severance” Theme appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Where do EV drivers charge their vehicles? For some, powering up their cars’ batteries might happen at home; for others, it might take place at a dedicated charging station. But there’s also a growing number of workplaces that offer employees a way to plug in their vehicles at the office. A 2024 report from the […] The post It’s About to Get Harder for Federal Employees to Charge EVs at Work appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The international market for whisky (and whiskey) is often volatile, with governmental policy and shifting tastes leading to changes in who’s drinking what over time. The latest export data from the Scotch Whisky Association provides a fascinating look at the export market for Scotch, which — at least in 2024 — could accurately be described […] The post In 2024, Scotch Whisky Exports Were Up — But Their Value Was Down appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
To many casual onlookers, the Iditarod is a weird curiosity. The famed sled-dog race, which begins this year on March 1, tasks mushers with trekking roughly 1,000 miles across the snowy Alaskan wilderness with a team of about 12 dogs, trying to set the fastest time as they go from Anchorage to Nome. But as […] The post Inside the Iditarod, Alaska’s Snowy Super Bowl appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
You can certainly cook with an apple, but can you cook with an Apple? While we wouldn’t recommend adding the expensive smartphone to your next stew or cake, the electronics company is making a foray into the home cooking market with a new feature for its Apple News+ subscribers: access to an array of recipes. […] The post Apple Is Getting Into the Recipe Business appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
For no good reason today, I thought I’d do a deep dive on the items I carry with me on my commute each day. I very much like the idea of forging a connection with the products you rely on day in and day out — especially in the realm of what we in the […] The post The Items Our EIC Can’t Commute Without appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class has been racking up accolades for its 2025 edition. Motor Trend‘s review hailed its engineering and performance as “essentially off the charts,” while Top Gear argued that “the G-Class has real strength in depth.” The size and price of the line have been recurring motifs in discussion of it, and now it […] The post Mercedes Expanding G-Class With Smaller G-Wagen appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Johnny Damon was already planning to shear his hair and shave his beard before he joined the Yankees in the winter of 2005. But that’s not a good story. The outfielder spent $90 in Midtown East and showed up to his introductory press conference a day later looking like a new man. In the history […] The post What We’ll Miss About the Yankee Facial Hair Ban 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 gel sunscreen from beloved sun safety brand Vacation, new Saucony sneaks and a long awaited Moncler collab with FRGMT. We've put in the work […] The post Products of the Week: Whiskey, Sneakers and Sunscreen appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Each and every week, we scour the internet to find the best deals available. To do so, we often find ourselves scrolling through the thousands (upon thousands!) of pages at Amazon. If you dig deep enough, there are always can’t-miss discounts on myriad products to be had — and this week is no exception. We’ve […] The post The Best Amazon Deals to Shop This Very Instant 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 Nike barn coat to a smart wearable, these are the best deals we’ve found on the internet this week. The Best Deals on the […] The post From Barn Coats to Fitbits: The 12 Best Deals on the Internet This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Running is hard. Running is gritty. Running sucks. I’ve heard all the above, countless times, from my running peers and non-runners alike. I can’t say I’ve ever heard the word “soft” associated with the sport. Running does have a couple phrases that connote approachability and restraint — like “recovery day” or “easy” (often used as […] The post On Cloudsurfer 2 Review: The Softest Running Shoe Yet? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The James Bond franchise is nothing short of a miracle. It’s a miracle that every single actor to officially play Bond is legendary in his own way (including Dalton and especially Brosnan). It’s a miracle that each film has been able to adapt to the times while still being entirely faithful to the character. I […] The post We Already Know What Amazon Could Do With James Bond. It’s Not Pretty. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If your Instagram feed has been flooded with reels and photos of Japan lately, you’re not alone — it seems like everyone and their mom is jumping on a 14+ hour flight heading east. In 2024, Japan boasted its highest tourism rate in history, with an all-time high of 36 million travelers entering the country. […] The post Get Acquainted With the Wonderful World of Japanese Convenience Stores appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
With dozens, if not hundreds of new collections appearing every single week from our favorite brands, we’ve done the hard work and rounded up the need-to-know style, watch and grooming drops that you simply can’t afford to miss. No need to thank us or anything. This week: Supreme drops a positive fire lookbook for Spring/Summer […] The post All the Style Drops You Should Care About This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
This Uniqlo sub-label is about to blow your spring wardrobe wide open. We’re not talking about Uniqlo U, the Japanese retailer’s premium staples off-shoot, nor Uniqlo x JW Anderson, the long-running partnership with the world’s hottest designer. Instead, the latest minimalist heat comes from Uniqlo: C, a sub-label spearheaded by prolific British designer Clare Waight […] The post Uniqlo: C Will Transform You Into a Sophisticated Fashion Guy appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In plane geometry, two parallel lines can never cross, but earlier this month I rather poetically merged the bone line of a six-figure Lamborghini Urus SE with the finish line of an ice track while sliding across completely sideways. I nearly busted a gut laughing at myself. But something in the tone of my instructor’s […] The post White Knuckles and Ice-Cold Supercars: My Day Driving Lamborghinis on a Frozen Lake appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Whether you’ve resolved to improve your office wardrobe or are desperate to try something new in 2025, there are few better places to stock up than J.Crew, for obvious reasons. The heritage retailer’s mix of no-brainer staples and refined statement styles make for a shopping experience that anyone can get behind, and with constant sales […] The post The J.Crew Sale Has Outlandishly Good Outerwear Deals Right Now appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you visit one of the Little Italy neighborhoods scattered across North America, chances are you’ll be exploring an enclave that’s at least 100 years old. There, you’ll typically find a mix of Italian restaurants and bakeries, turn-of-the-20th-century Roman Catholic churches, and parks and streets named after notable Italian Americans. Most have at least one […] The post The Best Little Italy Neighborhoods in North America appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Mag Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 [...]
Maya Wei-Haas, Science By pinpointing bomb craters and swaths sprayed with herbicides, analysis could help direct remediation and cleanup efforts [...]
Neely Tucker, The Library of Congress Pennsylvania's Big Pat Bane, a cheerful man standing some 6 feet 9 inches, was almost certainly the tallest soldier in the Civil War. His feet came out [...]
Nono Umasy, HistoryMaps Art of War of the Byzantine Empire. [...]
Staff, Historytoday From a cult's rogue personalities to its foundational ideologies, how have fringe beliefs guided the direction of the American dream? [...]
Matt Fitzpatrick, The Conversation A decision to negotiate over the heads of the Ukrainians would reveal just how Trump sees Ukraine and Europe. [...]
Jennie Cohen, HISTORY As Canada eliminates its pennies from circulation, explore surprising facts about the one‑cent coin. [...]
Paul D. Thacker, RCInvestigations By Paul D. Thacker, RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 19, 2025 President Trump often trumpets American exceptionalism, but an executive order scheduled to [...]
Amy Briggs, NatGeo Burned, baked, or broken, many historic documents were once thought lost to time, but AI and imaging innovations are allowing scholars to reveal their secrets. [...]
Miguel A. Faria, RealClearHistory It is common to see articles and editorials urging us to do away with Electoral College; the writers yearn to "move forward" and adopt a "one person, one [...]
Staff, Sky History We're all familiar with Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza, but did you know that Skara Brae is older than both? [...]
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 September, epidemiologists out to scare people about homeopathic - "detectable" - levels of pesticides published a paper hoping to get journalists promoting fear and doubt about agriculture.Being the opposition to science in academia is a good place to be. They can get a publication to check off that annual box and nothing much will change. They won't get any blame.read more [...]
Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few years later, epidemiologists inside the once-credible International Agency for Research on Cancer in France set out to gain "expert witness" contracts from lawyers and began to create more and more "correlations" - no science needed, just a possible link in mice - and now over 80,000 products carry these labels.Not only will you find warning [...]
The Kilometre Cubic Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) collaboration has reported detection of a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 million billion electron volts) by its ARCA detector. The event, KM3-230213A, is the first evidence that neutrinos of such high energies are produced in the Universe and the most energetic neutrino ever observed. read more [...]
This column deals with political opposition, resistance, and the future of the nation. It dissects the Trump-Musk financial bromance and the role of VP Vance. Bear with me to its end, then please comment pro, con, or in between. Shadow action read more [...]
Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was funding the Chair in Nutrition at UC Davis when a lot of those claims came out and while it's not the case that academics are creating results-for-hire any more than industry scientists are, it is the case that government and companies only fund people whose work they like.read more [...]
Pattern recognition is an altisonant name to a rather common, if complex, activity we perform countless times in our daily lives. Our brain is capable of interpreting successions of sounds, written symbols, or images almost infallibly - so much so that people like me, who have sometimes trouble to recognize a face that should be familiar, get their own disfunctionality term - in this case, prosopagnosia.read more [...]
In 2015, nearly every country signed The Paris agreement and agreed to keep global warming to below 2 degrees higher than before humans began emitting industrial levels of CO2 emissions.Yet very little has changed, because every country gets to arbitrarily decide for itself how it can meet its goal, or if it should have a goal at all.(1) That's how useless the Paris Agreement is.read more [...]
Back in December 2024, astronomers caught wind of something unusual—a small, fast-moving rock dubbed 2024 YR4 hurtling through space. Over the past several months, NASA’s eagle-eyed observations have tracked its path with increasing precision, revealing a roughly 1% chance that this cosmic wanderer could impact Earth in 2032. Now, before alarm bells start ringing, let’s break down what that really means and why there’s no need to panic.read more [...]
So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually anyone who arrives legally can start a business with little problem and get rich.A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but more things are free for the poor. They're not wrong, normal human psychological variation means most people would rather not compete if given a choice. That is seen all across the animal kingdom.read more [...]
The Zagros Mountains are nestled in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey, and are the scene of an unfolding geological story deep beneath it.read more [...]
A new analysis claims that crown volume of stream-side shrubs is a key metric for evaluating trophic cascade strength and they attribute the 1,500% increase in a small number of sites to increased numbers of wolves.The data they used were collected from 20 streams during the years 2001 to 2020 and they note the aboveground biomass increase is due to a lot fewer elk, which was caused by a lot more wolves. "Balance of nature" wins.read more [...]
Hims Inc., rebranded as Hims & Hers Health, Inc. after they went public in 2020, began as a telehealth company for erectile dysfunction and hair loss products.No real issue there, the products are well-established and a phone call or website consultation is more convenient and far faster than visiting a doctor's office in the modern Obamacare milieu. It's entering the compounded glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists (GLP-1) injections market that got them new scrutiny.read more [...]
A new survey created by marketing insights company Tastewise finds that half are not going to drink alcohol on Valentine's Day - for health reasons.They're not wrong. During the waning days of the Biden administration, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy did something for science and public health that was grounded in science - he issued a report encouraging people to get off alcohol. read more [...]
As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve and improve their performance on more and more general tasks, scientists struggle to make the best use of them. The problem is not incompetence - in fact, at least in my field of study (high-energy physics) most of us have grown rather well educated on the use and development of tailored machine learning algorithms. The problem is rather that our problems are enormously complex. Long gone are the years when we started to apply with success deep neural networks to classification and regression problems of data analysis: those were easy tasks. The bar now [...]
In 2023, I bit the bullet by signing a book contract with Springer to work on a difficult compilation of scientific misconduct and problematic science publishing practice. It was planned as an edited book that required expert contributors of the field to write chapters on the various topics. read more [...]
A new Artificial Intelligence analysis of data of ovarian cancer patients links birth control pills to a 26% reduced risk for those had ever used it, and 43% for those who had used the it after the age of 45.That does not mean you should take it as a way to prevent cancer, it is an endocrine disruptor that binds to estrogen with 20,000X the effect of compounds like BPA that environmentalists tried to claim are too risky in food containers, and this study is EXPLORATORY. With enough data, Australians could link voting for the Liberal Party to lower risk of [...]
Over 30 years after Democrats achieved their generational goal of ending nuclear energy in America, science is finally back.Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp announced they have provided land nearby to build four nuclear small modular reactors. “Plain and simple: the United States needs more power. And nowhere in the country, other than Texas, is anyone willing to step up and build the power plants we need."Credit: Texas A&M Universityread more [...]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called the National Rifle Association “a terrorist organization” but now claims to be a “constitutional absolutist” who opposes gun control. He said if you eat steak you're more of a terrorist than Obama Bin Laden but now does photo ops eating McDonald's cheeseburgers, and he claimed that President George W. Bush trouncing his fellow progressive anti-science activist Senator John Kerry was actually Republicans stealing the election but now claims maybe Trump had his win stolen in 2020.What changed? He is close to finally getting the government legitimacy he has craved, but escaped him in 2008. So [...]
The United Kingdom has delays even longer than the United States for routine care but with a fraction of the population, their high costs are a lot more punitive to taxpayers.Government is always looking for ways to keep costs contained but NHS employees need raises also, so it is a challenge. Needing fewer new employees will help.read more [...]
While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought on by the descendants of eugenicists who had founded "environmental" groups like Sierra Club to promote their beliefs(1), President Dwight D. Eisenhower told them, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field”read more [...]
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