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The key issue facing the DNC now is, of course, reforming the party after its defeat in the 2024 elections. [...]
Yes, pushing back against Donald Trump is essential. But to do that, the Democrats must turn themselves into a fighting force for economic justice. [...]
Loving, naive parents believed medical science was above politics and beyond question. Now, with the stroke of a pen, a destructive ideology has been eliminated. [...]
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) questioned Kash Patel on Thursday in his confirmation hearing for FBI director. Schmitt told Patel that he has all the faith in the world that he will restore the trust of the FBI. [...]
I got into politics because of my experience with health care, and it informs how I think about keeping Americans safe and well today. [...]
I'm writing to express frustration after your exchanges with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., this week. I understand you're an advocate for guaranteed health care, and (as would be the case with any Republican president's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary) Kennedy does not represent progress in that direction. However, you share common ground in many other areas, which made the hostility of these exchanges puzzling. [...]
But one thing, at least, is clear: if Musk does manage to import approaches from places such as Estonia or Singapore - and in the process create a functioning e-government in the US [...]
Trump policies are bad enough, but the worldviews that undergird them are the graver problem from the front lines to the family dinner table. [...]
It's a tough time for the Democrats. After defeating Donald Trump four years ago, the party struggled to effectively navigate the US through the fallout from the pandemic and watched as Americans turned against them on issue after issue. Joe Biden became too frail and unpopular to run again, and his refusal to drop out early saddled Democrats with another unpopular candidate in Kamala Harris. All this ultimately resulted in the return of Trump, who has already taken a battering ram to many projects and policies that Democrats hold dear. [...]
Newly empowered conservatives must be careful to avoid the same disarming confidence that made the Left so vulnerable. [...]
The Biden administration wanted to restore the domestic semiconductor industry. The results have disappointed. [...]
The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States. They weren't. [...]
"It has always surprised me," wrote the 20th-century Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, "that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain." [...]
Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences? [...]
A poll found men almost twice as likely as women to lie about their 2024 choice. [...]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named retired Major General Eyal Zamir as Israel's new armed forces chief Saturday after his predecessor resigned last month taking responsibility for failing to stop Hamas's October 2023 attack."Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have agreed this evening on the appointment of Major General (Res.) Eyal Zamir as the next chief of staff of the (Israeli military)," Netanyahu's office said in a statement. [...]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday that the world was relying on him "to reach a permanent and historic peace agreement" to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.Saturday's phone call was the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza into Jordan and Egypt, which Sisi and other Arab leaders have strongly rejected. [...]
Three buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheerful crowd in the territory's southern city of Khan Yunis on Saturday.The prisoners, many wearing grey prison uniforms, were greeted by hundreds of Gazans who gathered around the buses as they approached the city's European Hospital, an AFP journalist reported.Rabi al-Kharoubi, 40, who came to see their arrival said he felt "indescribable joy" at seeing them freed. "We are proud of them." [...]
Stepping off a bus with two dozen other released Palestinian prisoners on Saturday after 23 years imprisonment in Israel, Ata Abdelghani had more than his freedom to look forward to.The 55-year-old was also able to hug his twin sons, Zain and Zaid, for the first time.The encounter was made possible by his release in an ongoing hostage-prisoner exchange as part of a January ceasefire deal for the Gaza Strip agreed by Israel and Hamas.The twins, now 10 years old, were conceived while Abdelghani was incarcerated after his sperm was smuggled out of his prison. [...]
Pictures of Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas were everywhere on Saturday at "Hostages Square" in Tel Aviv as the three Israeli captives were released by Gaza militants.Sighs of relief ran through onlookers gathered to watch a live transmission of the three being handed over to the Red Cross in the Palestinian territory before being brought home to Israel."It's a good feeling, it makes us stronger," Miki Pnini, a 67-year-old Israeli from the outlying suburb of Pardesiya west of Tel Aviv, told AFP. [...]
Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and activists, the latest bloodshed in Sudan's devastating war.Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month with the army fighting to take back control of the capital. [...]
Ranks of Hamas fighters formed up on Gaza's beachfront on Saturday for the handover of an Israeli-American hostage in a show of force against the dramatic backdrop of breaking waves.In Gaza City a stage had been erected at a harbour for the handover of Keith Siegel.Green Hamas and Palestinian flags flapped in a strong sea breeze near a fisherman's wharf.Earlier, Israeli Yarden Bibas and Franco-Israeli Ofer Kalderon were handed over in a swift and organised ceremony in the war-battered city of Khan Yunis to the south. [...]
Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman."As long as people listen to music, there will be Umm Kulthum," said Abu Ahmed, the manager of a Cairo cafe named after the Arab world's most revered singer."She still lives in every song and every note," he told AFP, adjusting the volume on an antique recorder as visitors to the historic bazaar the cafe is housed in peered in from outside. [...]
Hamas and Israel will conduct their fourth swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, with militants releasing three Israelis including the father of the two youngest hostages, in exchange for 183 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.Since the truce took effect on January 19, Gaza militants have released 15 hostages after holding them in captivity since their attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. [...]
The Red Cross, accused of not doing enough to help hostages in Gaza or Palestinian detainees in Israel, has defended itself in a rare statement outlining the limits of its role.Insisting on its neutrality, the International Committee of the Red Cross said the escalation of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories has triggered "a proliferation of dehumanising language and of false and misleading information about the ICRC and our work in the current conflict".- Hostages - [...]
US funding to Lebanon's armed forces remained in limbo despite the State Department backpedaling on its near-total halt to foreign aid abroad. [...]
US funding to Lebanon's armed forces remained in limbo despite the State Department backpedaling on its near-total halt to foreign aid abroad. [...]
US funding to Lebanon's armed forces remained in limbo despite the State Department backpedaling on its near-total halt to foreign aid abroad. [...]
US funding to Lebanon's armed forces remained in limbo despite the State Department backpedaling on its near-total halt to foreign aid abroad. [...]
Despite concerns about the destruction of documents and other indications of serious crimes committed in Syria under Bashar al-Assad's rule, UN investigators said Friday that plenty of evidence remained unspoiled."The country is rich in evidence, and we won't have huge difficulty in pursuing accountability, criminal justice," said Hanny Megally of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria. [...]
The Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea have ceased owing to the ceasefire in Gaza, prompting Egypt to encourage shipping companies to resume sailing through the waterway. [...]
The ministry's strategic role in financial decision-making and postwar reconstruction has intensified political disputes, with opposition groups and international actors resisting Hezbollah's dominance. [...]
The ministry's strategic role in financial decision-making and postwar reconstruction has intensified political disputes, with opposition groups and international actors resisting Hezbollah's dominance. [...]
The ministry's strategic role in financial decision-making and postwar reconstruction has intensified political disputes, with opposition groups and international actors resisting Hezbollah's dominance. [...]
The ministry's strategic role in financial decision-making and postwar reconstruction has intensified political disputes, with opposition groups and international actors resisting Hezbollah's dominance. [...]
Richard Waters, Financial Times The release of DeepSeek's new model has shaken assumptions about who has the upper hand in developing the technology [...]
Larry Swedroe, Alpha Architect Every year the markets provide us with lessons on prudent investment strategies. With great frequency, markets offer remedial courses covering lessons they taught [...]
Jeffrey Burt, The Next Platform A network infrastructure connecting vast numbers of AI agents from multiple vendors or organizations, allowing those AI agents to automatically communicate, [...]
John Tamny, RealClear "Since he was a kid, Randy Miod wanted to be at the beach. Once he got there, he never left." That's what the Wall Street Journal's Chris Kornelis [...]
Naomi Schaefer Riley, City Journal Urging the wealthy to become philanthropists as soon as possible is a shortsighted strategy that misunderstands economics. [...]
Brian Potter, Construction Physics The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US. [...]
Jon Decker, RealClearMarkets President Trump [...]
Susannah Glickman, TAP The Biden administration wanted to restore the domestic semiconductor industry. The results have disappointed. [...]
Walter Block, RealClearMarkets There are been all sorts of explanations for the Los Angeles fires. For example, the financial cutbacks in the LAFD. [...]
Lily Meier, Bloomberg BookTok readers are flocking to physical stores to snag a copy of the latest viral hit—and helping the once-struggling chain turn a corner. [...]
Casey Carlisle, RealClearMarkets Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, the natural progress of things is for prices to yield and for quality to gain ground. [...]
Andy Serwer, Barrons Just when you least expect it [...]
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 architects and engineers working on luxury residential projects, there’s a new flex on the scene, and it involves placing pools high above the ground. We’ve seen that in a recent project in Dubai, where sky pools connected a pair of residential towers, and the latest high-end project combining aquatic recreation with an impressive view […] The post A New Luxury Residence Has NYC’s Highest Pool appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you live in a large U.S. city, you may well have rats on your mind — or just be seeing rats on a regular basis. In New York City, for instance, there’s a rat czar — someone whose governmental purview is trying to get the city’s rat population down. As a recent New York […] The post Higher Temperatures Mean More Rats in the World’s Cities appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Is Severance the best show on television right now? There’s a good case to be made for it — combine a great cast, mystery-box storytelling that actually pays off and a resonant premise and you have the makings of essential viewing. But some of the show’s charm also comes from smaller details, including excellent musical […] The post The Self-Help Book From “Severance” Is (Kind Of) Real appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The latest sign that travel in the U.S. has officially rebounded since the pandemic comes from the New York metropolitan area. More specifically, it comes from a quartet of airports in and around New York City — John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty International, and New York Stewart International Airports. This data suggests that […] The post New York’s Airports Set a New International Travel Record appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The third Real Time With Bill Maher of 2025 featured an unexpected moment of candor from its host. Maher told the evening’s first guest that he was about to say “something I’ve never done here before — an apology.” That guest was Peggy Noonan — author, most recently, of the book A Certain Idea of […] The post A Bob Dylan National Anthem? Bill Maher Thinks So. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s become a familiar tragedy: someone is prescribed pain medication to recover from an injury, then becomes addicted to the medication intended to improve their life. It’s left both healthcare professionals and people recovering from surgery in a difficult position: should you take medication that will make your life more manageable if there’s a risk […] The post New FDA Approval Could Transform Pain Management appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
This is not a particularly hot take, I realize, but I believe eating a fresh, sliced baguette or a nicely toasted piece of sourdough bread slathered with a borderline obscene amount of butter is one of life’s great joys. And I am being only slightly hyperbolic when I say that there is perhaps nothing worse than trying […] The post The 16th-Century Kitchen Tool Our EIC Swears By appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Each week, we scour the internet to find the best deals available and to do so, more often than not, we find ourselves scrolling through the thousands of pages at Amazon. The e-commerce site hosts can’t-miss discounts on myriad products and this week is no exception. Naturally, we’ve done our due diligence and rounded up […] 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 an underrated Birkenstock shoe to an archival bomber jacket, these are the best deals we’ve found on the internet this week. The Best Deals on […] The post From Birkenstocks to Bomber Jackets: The 9 Best Deals on the Internet This Week 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: Vuori collabs with Clae to bring us the best sneakers, Timex drops yet another durable timepiece and Nike mass-released the Pegasus Premium. We've put in the […] The post Products of the Week: Timex Watches, Nikes and a Vuori Collab appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Many legacy automakers have spent the last few years making headway into the EV market — or fine-tuning their strategy for that space. That can mean pricing changes, new models or infrastructure deals like those that have seen more automakers being able to use Tesla’s Superchargers. But not every high-profile EV announcement means a vehicle […] The post Ford’s Latest EV Is a NASCAR Prototype Mustang appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
British cyclist Guy Stapleford never considered himself an athlete. Instead, fitness came to him as a form of salvation. Flashback to 2016: Stapleford was newly divorced and not long clear of a bout of pancreatitis brought on by alcohol abuse. Alone in a new flat, he realized he was teetering on the edge of another […] The post Biking Along Britain’s Remaining Roman Roads appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Welcome back to our monthly guide of the best new whisk(e)ys. Please check out our more in-depth looks at new releases here. This month, we’re still catching up on some 2024 stragglers and starting to get some 2025 releases in our home bar. Join America's Fastest Growing Spirits Newsletter THE SPILL. Unlock all the reviews, recipes […] The post The Best New Whiskeys to Drink This February appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Welcome to See/Hear, InsideHook’s deep dive into the month’s most important cultural happenings, pop and otherwise. Every month, we round up the biggest upcoming movie, TV and album releases, ask some cool people to tell us what they’ve been into lately, make you a playlist we guarantee you’ll have on heavy rotation and recommend a classic (or […] The post See/Hear: The Best Movies, TV and Music for February 2025 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When Napa feels too crowded (or too expensive) and you’ve already experienced the best of Sonoma (as in The Lodge’s oversized outdoor soaking tubs), then it’s time to head to a quieter, more unassuming bit of the county. That would be Healdsburg, my current pick for the best place to go wine tasting up north […] The post How to Spend a Perfect Weekend in Healdsburg, the Under-the-Radar Wine Country Town appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It happened, folks. On Tuesday, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet — colloquially known as “Son of Concorde,” a reference to the retired commercial aircraft which flew from New York to London in three hours — reached supersonic speeds, breaking the sound barrier for the first time. The demonstrator aircraft hit a top speed of Mach 1.122, according […] The post Is This the Beginning of the Second Supersonic Age? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Nike’s road racing shoes tend to be, in a word, bold. The Swoosh loves to incorporate loud — the “volt” colorway is instantly recognizable for any serious runner or sneakerhead — and even high-octane graphics into their speediest racers, and their most recent race day pack is no exception. Featuring some of the most monumental sneaker […] The post These Running Shoes Are Fire. Literally. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Handsome, rugged, sustainable — and now you can add “on-sale” to Outerknown’s list of descriptors. The surf-inspired retailer has been doing wonders for guy’s closets everywhere since their 2015 inception, and we have even better news: the Outerknown winter sale just kicked off. (This is a pretty big deal given the brand’s general aversion to […] The post Outerknown’s Winter Sale Is Unbelievably Good. Here’s What to Buy. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I am staunchly opposed to adult men wearing sports jerseys. Are you an 18-year-old frat bro? No? Put the sports jersey away (unless you are, indeed, a professional athlete). Under absolutely no circumstances should you wear a jersey to any event other than the stadium at which said sports team is playing, and even that’s […] The post The Best Places to Buy Cool, Style-Forward Fan Gear 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. Formula 1 fever has swept across the U.S., and now the pieces are almost in place to cement its grip. There are FOMO-fueled races […] The post F1 Needs an American Star. At 19, Jak Crawford’s Ready for the Call. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Elsa Keslassy, Variety 'Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British intelligence documents. [...]
David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children [...]
Keith Stuart, The Guardian As the Video Game History Foundation opens a new digitised archive, what can titles like Crash, Mega, Edge and GamesMaster tell us about the early days of [...]
John W. Berresford, Libsyn Federal Courthouse, NY, 1938 This is a short podcast to acquaint you with the actors about to come on stage in the drama of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. They [...]
Alex Alfirraz Scheers, RCH Benjamin Disraeli was the first and only Jew to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a position he held first in 1868, and then again from 1874 to 1880. [...]
Helen L. Murphey, Time Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years in the making. [...]
John J. Edwards III, HISTORY The project's stated goal: to 'use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.' [...]
Mark Tooley, Providencemag There's been talk of the United States acquiring Greenland, which is autonomously governed within the Kingdom of Denmark. The argument is that with the Arctic [...]
Geoff Moore, warhistoryonline The exhibition will be traveling across the UK until April 2026. [...]
Ioannis Papadimitriou, TheCollector Between 1912 and 1922, Greece's Megali Idea drove territorial expansion, aiming to incorporate Greek communities from the Ottoman Empire. Exhaustion and [...]
Casey Wheatland, TomKlingenstein.com There are clear parallels between the political crisis the new president faces and the one overcome by the American founders. [...]
Alexander Lee, Historytoday According to some, written history began in the 14th century. It may seem ridiculous, but the Phantom Time conspiracy theory has serious implications. [...]
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 [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 35 million tons of plastics are generated just in America, and 12.% of that becomes is garbage like plastic containers and bags and even appliances.Sorry folks, politicians in states like California who insist it's being recycled are lying to you, scientists know better. What really happens to plastic, even if your government is shipping it to China to be "recycled" is landfilling and incineration. A new study finds that measuring how much carbon dioxide a potential chemical looping system would pump out compared to conventional processes to produce synthesis gas could reduce emissions [...]
As part of the celebrations for 20 years of blogging, I am re-posting articles that in some way were notable for the history of the blog. This time I want to (re)-submit to you four pieces I wrote to explain the unexplainable: the very complicated analysis performed by a group of physicists within the CDF experiment, which led them to claim that there was a subtle new physics process hidden in the data collected in Run 2. There would be a lot to tell about that whole story, but suffices to say here that the signal never got confirmed by [...]
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed former Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Though the Trump administration has promised reform, there will be big challenges in that. Though high-profile jobs are appointees, the nuts-and-bolts work of governance is done by career employees, and nearly 90 percent of them are Democrats.read more [...]
Gym Bro, Curl Gurl, Gym Rat if you choose not to identify as any gender - everyone knows what it means, and it can be pretty intimidating if you walk into a fitness center as a new member. Imagine feeling like you have to get in shape before you can join a gym to get in shape.Fitness executives don't want that but store managers know not to alienate their best customers for someone who will join on a special deal, go for a month, and then cancel the first time they download RocketMoney and remember they have a gym membership.read [...]
Though the American Automobile Association (AAA) says you should, thanks to fuel-injection engines common for the last 40 years, you don't need to 'warm up' your car, letting it idle before driving, now even though in the past it made sense. Like America inventing pre-diabetes, which no other nation accepts because only 5% of people in the CDC 'warning' range will ever develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, warming up your car is a solution without a problem.read more [...]
A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working memory task, while 68% of recent users also demonstrated a similar impact.read more [...]
While off-label uses of medication may be controversial in political media, in science and health they lead to important gains. A new example is the cardiac disease drug digoxin used at a low and safe dosage for one week for nine patients with metastatic breast cancer.read more [...]
An analysis of 300 million United Kingdom Ministry of Transport test records, which tries to estimate the ‘health’ of every vehicle on UK roads between 2005 and 2022 and determine potential vehicle longevity (basically survival rates for different powertrains) has concluded that electric vehicles now match the lifespans of conventional counterparts and may even be more reliable.read more [...]
When people see labels or menus listing the calories in their food, it doesn't change their consumption in any way beyond what experts call "statistical wobble." About two fewer almonds worth of calories per meal. But two almonds over time can add up to a lot.That's the conclusion in the data of a systematic review by The Cochrane Collaboration. The team of academics reviewed 25 papers which discussed the impact of calorie labeling on consumption and found a minute reduction in the foods selected - about 11 calories.read more [...]
"Long Covid", the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that erupted in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread worldwide, causing millions of deaths, is difficult to pin down.Pediatricians report it affects on average 0.5% of children who got the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that caused COVID-19. It has a few names, like Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, but Long Covid is the common term, and is generally characterized as persistence of COVID-19 symptoms 12 weeks or more weeks after the disease. read more [...]
Science is always looking for new ways to protect plants and the environment. In Hawaii, for example, when their staple papaya was under attack by aphids that transferred the "papaya ringspot virus" to plants, legacy breeding and pesticides did not work. A gene gun sending in a GMO did.(1) In the Wall Street Journal, I discussed how a non-corporate, free modification by academics could save the American Chestnut from the natural blight that had devastated billions of trees.(2)read more [...]
With Burns Night this weekend, Scotland will celebrate its heritage. In the First Among Equals country to the south that controls them, Scottish accents used to mean trouble. Now, it is the sound of safety for both English men and women.A new study finds that the English, even some Welsh and Scottish, associate a "working-class" accent with criminal behavior. In a jury trial, that could have serious ramifications, but it likely also matters before that. Arrests and voice identification, for example. You're more likely to be one of The Usual Suspects(1) if your accent is criminal.read more [...]
Doctors who would never tell a patient to smoke cigarettes in moderation, they are a legitimate class 1 carcinogen, oddly say just that about an identical class 1 carcinogen, alcohol, and as recreational marijuana has become legal they have given it the same umbrella.Legal or not, marijuana is a drug just like alcohol, and it includes the toxic smoke of cigarettes.I am not a social authoritarian progressive so I won't tell you how to behave just because my health insurance premiums went up so 50,000,000 others could get it cheaper, but you absolutely should not be smoking marijuana around kids. [...]
PFAS, called "forever chemicals” by activists, are about 12,000 compounds, 11,993 of them found in nature, yet environmentalists in their Forever War On Science have been targeting them based on epidemiological correlation. You know, that same "science" that claimed chocolate is health food, butter is bad and trans fats are good, and that a parasite medication cured COVID-19.read more [...]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his Children's Defense Fund and his work as a trial lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has always been in a war against science. He has been at war for decades. He sued over the COVID-19 vaccine, as you'd expect from his wealthy white perch where organic food and supplement shoppers also reside, but really only shot to prominence outside the anti-vaccine and organic food industry when he abandoned his presidential campaign and endorsed Republican Donald Trump.His goal, he claimed, was a spin on Make America Great Again - Make America Healthy Again.read more [...]
Have you purchased organic food and wondered what the chemical is that you need to wash off? Those are alkaline wax-based coatings, designed to preserve food so it looks nice longer. Just like conventional growers use. But chemical wax coatings made including olive bud oil don't prevent fungi and bacteria common in organic food, and a new program would like to change that.read more [...]
Donald Trump does not have the power to rescind either constitutional amendments or federal laws by mere executive order, no matter how strongly he might wish otherwise. No president of the United States of America has that power. The media and public need to understand that anything he signs in that way is basically on par with a social-media post ranting about what he thinks should happen. At most, he can direct how the executive branch enforces existing laws and the Constitution, but if any order violates those higher authorities, it’s automatically invalid. Anyone who tries to carry it out [...]
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 [...]
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