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Progressive activism's concrete costs can lead to conservative results at the ballot box. [...]
They seem not to know this is a five-alarm fire. [...]
Going into the election, I was scolded by people telling me why what I was prioritizing in my voting choice was wrong. COVID-19 is over. Boys in girls' sports isn't happening. No one is getting censored. You're getting it all wrong. Subtext: You're an idiot influenced by far-right loons, and you're a bigot to the core. What [...]
Community disinvestment, lack of economic opportunity, and rampant misinformation were a few of the chronic ills that kept Black Philadelphians from the polls. [...]
Swamp creatures like Sen. Cornyn are signaling their intent to sabotage Trump's cabinet nominees because they threaten the deep state. [...]
Part 2 of our series on how Barack Obama undermined U.S. democracy [...]
Over the summer, I drove down to one of the numerous beach towns in Ocean County, New Jersey with two friends: one is a cop, the other a special ed teacher and athletic coach; both are black Americans [...]
The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate [...]
When one considers Donald Trump's Cabinet selections announced thus far, there are a few themes that emerge. [...]
The party continues to operate in an overcredentialied fever dream in the face of an America becoming ever more red in tooth and claw [...]
Since Election Day, the Trump transition has been copying and pasting the same quote again and again into emails to reporters seeking comment on this or that presidential appointment. [...]
Charlie Kirk gave a warning to the new Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) if he does not advance Donald Trump's agenda: [...]
The second Trump administration will have a Potemkin cabinet and centralized power among the czars in the White House. [...]
Bari Weiss from 'The Free Press' speaks to Palantir and PayPal founder Peter Thiel about his influence on the Trump campaign and how "counter-elites" have risen to challenge the liberal status quo. [...]
Tuesday night's results were definitive enough that there is reason to hope we may have just closed one of the worst chapters in American history. [...]
Trump has shattered the Dems' blinkered assumption that racial minorities are defined by their race. [...]
In the crowded Qalandia refugee camp, UNRWA's training centre is an island of calm where young people from the occupied West Bank master trades, but a recent Israeli ban on all cooperation with the UN agency has left the centre in limbo.On the spacious campus a stone's throw from the wall separating the West Bank and Israel, plumbers in training assemble pipes, future electricians wire circuits and carpenters hammer together roof frames. [...]
Young Libyans have mobilised for Saturday's municipal elections, the first time many will vote in the fractured North African country where polls have been rare since Moamer Kadhafi's 2011 overthrow."Elections are a new concept here," said Radouane Erfida, 21, from Misrata, as he and other volunteers eagerly gave out leaflets and engaged with potential voters ahead of polling day. "To help people accept and understand the process, we need awareness campaigns," he told AFP. [...]
As winter descends on Gaza's tent cities, emergency housing made from mushrooms could keep out the cold -- just one of several sustainable, home-grown innovations put forward by Arab designers at an expo in Dubai.Lightweight, warm and versatile, mushroom-based structures are an appealing alternative to the flimsy shelters now housing many thousands of Gazans displaced by more than a year of war, according to Dima Al Srouri, a member of the ReRoot initiative. [...]
For more than a year, the United States has steadfastly backed Israel in its Gaza war while quietly counseling restraint. With Donald Trump's return, the nuance will vanish, although his hunger for deal-making makes him less predictable. [...]
The officials were accompanying senior Iranian adviser Ali Larijani, who pledged during the visit to support any decision made by the country regarding the war with Israel. [...]
Ali Larijani said he delivered a "message" from Iran's supreme leader to Lebanon's prime minister amid scenarios of a potential cease-fire between Tehran's proxy, Hezbollah, and Israel. [...]
Ali Larijani said he delivered a "message" from Iran's supreme leader to Lebanon's prime minister amid scenarios of a potential cease-fire between Tehran's proxy, Hezbollah, and Israel. [...]
Ali Larijani said he delivered a "message" from Iran's supreme leader to Lebanon's prime minister amid scenarios of a potential cease-fire between Tehran's proxy, Hezbollah, and Israel. [...]
Ali Larijani said he delivered a "message" from Iran's supreme leader to Lebanon's prime minister amid scenarios of a potential cease-fire between Tehran's proxy, Hezbollah, and Israel. [...]
Looting of aid reaching Gaza has been made easier by Israel's army targeting the local police which would otherwise be able to prevent it, a group of non-governmental organisations said Friday.A report by the 29 NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam and Care, said that humanitarian aid entering the Palestinian territory had fallen to an all-time low, averaging 37 humanitarian trucks per day in October, and 69 in the first week of November.This compared with an average of 500 a day before the October 7, 2023, unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on Israel. [...]
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met Lebanese officials in Beirut Friday, the third high-profile Iranian solidarity visit since the Israel-Hezbollah war began in September.Speaking after meeting Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament speaker Nabih Berri -- a Hezbollah ally at the forefront of ceasefire negotiations -- Ali Larijani said he "hopes for a swift solution to the suffering of the Lebanese people". [...]
Suzanne Karkaba and her father Ali were both civil defence rescuers whose job was to save the injured and recover the dead in Lebanon's war. When an Israeli strike killed him on Thursday and it was his turn to be rescued, there wasn't much left. She had to identify him by his fingers.Karkaba then rushed back to the bombed civil defence centre to search for her fellow first responders under the rubble. [...]
Deaths in the Sudan war are likely to be "substantially underreported", according to a recent report, which gave figures for Khartoum State alone that were greater than one current estimate for the whole country.The findings came from a report by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).They found that in the first 14 months of the conflict, between April 2023 and June 2024, more than 61,000 people died of all causes in Khartoum State -- a 50 percent increase in the pre-war death rate. [...]
Lebanese officials were reviewing on Friday a US truce proposal in the Israel-Hezbollah war as Hamas said it was ready for a ceasefire on Israel's other front, in Gaza.Israel has been at war against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon since late September, after a year of relatively low-level cross border exchanges which Hezbollah said were in support of Hamas fighting Israel in Gaza.A top government official in Beirut, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said US Ambassador Lisa Johnson discussed with senior Lebanese officials on Thursday a 13-point proposal. [...]
Former US vice president Al Gore told AFP Friday it was "absurd" for petrostates such as Azerbaijan to host UN climate talks, saying the selection process should be overhauled.Mukhtar Babayev, a former oil executive who now serves as Azerbaijan's ecology minister, is chairing the COP29 talks in Baku while the country's leader, Ilham Aliyev, caused a stir this week by calling fossil fuels a "gift of the God". [...]
The World Bank estimated that about $8.5 billion worth of damages and losses have piled up from the year-long war in Lebanon, which had already been struggling with a devastating economic crisis. [...]
The World Bank estimated that about $8.5 billion worth of damages and losses have piled up from the year-long war in Lebanon, which had already been struggling with a devastating economic crisis. [...]
The World Bank estimated that about $8.5 billion worth of damages and losses have piled up from the year-long war in Lebanon, which had already been struggling with a devastating economic crisis. [...]
The World Bank estimated that about $8.5 billion worth of damages and losses have piled up from the year-long war in Lebanon, which had already been struggling with a devastating economic crisis. [...]
The UN nuclear chief toured two Iranian uranium enrichment plants that have been the focus of Western concern on Friday after Tehran said it was ready to address "doubts" about its ambitions.The visit to Iran by International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi comes after he warned "the margins for manoeuvre are beginning to shrink" over its nuclear programme.On Friday, Grossi visited the Natanz and Fordo enrichment plants in central Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported. [...]
Quin Hillyer, Washington Examiner If, and only if, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy go about their job in the right way, their task of radically downsizing government is tremendously important. [...]
Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times That didn't take long. Shares in big vaccine producers, including Pfizer and Moderna, tumbled soon after Donald Trump [...]
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets Jack Ryan is passionate about expanding access to housing. Ryan's passion makes him ideal as HUD secretary for the incoming Trump administration. To which [...]
Ja'han Jones, MSNBC The Massachusetts Democrat said the Trump transition team's delay in signing ethics safeguards, which are aimed at heading off conflicts of interest, is "what illegal [...]
Scott Bessent, Fox News Prior to the 16th Amendment, which authorized the individual income tax, tariffs had been one of the federal government's chief sources of funding. [...]
Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY Voters blamed the Biden/Harris administration for inflation. Was that fair? We asked economists to weigh in. [...]
Paul Mullen, Heritage Fdn. You may have heard, "Inflation is cooling!" This is welcome news to families struggling to pay for food, rent and utilities. Finally, now they can make it to the end [...]
David Bahnsen, National Review Podcast Episode · Capital Record · 11/14/2024 · 1h 17m [...]
Eric Fry, InvestorPlace Let's take a closer look at how energy stocks fared under Trump's first term… consider the potential impact of a "Trump 2.0" presidency on the sector… and dig up [...]
Tom Gerken, BBC News Bluesky is picking up one million new users every day at its current rate. [...]
Jeffrey Singer & Josh Bloom, The Hill A recent study found two-thirds of homeless people have a mental [...]
Steve Cuozzo, New York Post It isn't only a craving for comradery, but employer muscle that's driven many back. [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this year, at a time when he was still in the midst of an independent campaign for the presidency, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher. The resulting episode included some unexpected moments, including Maher — not always a big vaccine advocate — critiquing Kennedy’s position on the issue. It’s […] The post A Mid-November “Real Time With Bill Maher” Had Plenty of Diagnoses appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It isn’t hard to see the appeal to traveling through a given region on a thoroughly luxurious train car. Given that the English countryside gets plenty of high marks for its scenic views and historic sites, it’s not exactly shocking that some bespoke experiences on rails would make their way across it. Belmond’s British Pullman […] The post Belmond Is Expanding Its Service in England and Wales appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Hello there, reader, and congratulations on making it to the end of yet another week. As a reward — a way of patting yourself on the back, because if you don’t, who will? — I recommend, as I always do, buying yourself something nice. It is convenient, then, that Huckberry is currently hosting its only sitewide sale of […] The post Everything Our EIC Recommends From Huckberry’s Massive Sitewide Sale appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The end of the year can mean a lot of different things to people. And the occasions, often celebratory, aren’t uniform. You’ve got holiday parties, family gatherings, New Year’s fetes and even times home alone (or with a loved one) for thoughtful contemplation. And Tuesdays. Not every whisk(e)y works for every occasion. Are you sipping […] The post 6 Special Occasion Whiskies for Celebrating the Holidays appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In the aftermath of an automobile accident, there are many things you shouldn’t do — and one of them is to supply false information about what just happened. That certainly applies if you were a driver involved in an accident, but it applies just as well to reports submitted by automakers. The GM-owned autonomous vehicle […] The post Cruise’s Incomplete NHTSA Report Cost Them $500,000 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
With the holiday season inevitably comes holiday travel. Sometimes that involves spending time with family; at others, it can be a reason for a low-stress getaway at a hotel or short-term rental. But what does that look like in terms of actual travel and hospitality planning? A study commissioned by the American Hotel and Lodging […] The post A New Study Illuminates Americans’ Holiday Travel Plans appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I sold my Peloton in the spring of 2022. It felt like I was getting away with something. I helped my buyer load it into an Uber XL, watched the car disappear down the block and then double-checked my Venmo: $800 richer. Technically $1,200 poorer, since I’d purchased the bike at full price in the […] The post Think Home Fitness Is Dead? Here Comes AI. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“There’s no wrong way to drink whiskey,” they say. Well, not entirely true: That little drinks aphorism — a go-to for every bourbon brand ambassador I’ve ever met — implies that you can enjoy your drink how you want (neat, on ice, in a cocktail, etc.) But it doesn’t mean there aren’t simple ways to […] The post The 12 Best Bourbon Glasses appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I first saw a reMarkable 2 in a stuffy corporate boardroom. The entire meeting stopped in its tracks to accost the blushing device owner who had just pulled the tablet out of his backpack. “You like it more than a notebook?” “More than taking notes on your laptop?” “Do you have to have good handwriting?” […] The post Stuff We Swear By: Here’s Why We Love the reMarkable 2 Tablet for Notetaking appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The holidays, as you are likely aware, can be costly. One place you can save, while in no way skimping on quality, is your choice of whisk(e)y for a holiday party. We’ve chosen five bottles, all under (or, depending on where you’re shopping, around) $50, that we would be proud to bring to any gathering […] The post 5 Whiskies Under $50 to Bring to Your Holiday Gathering appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There’s little denying the appeal of a good waxed jacket. One of our favorite styles of outerwear for the wet, uncertain weather of fall and winter, the coat provides maximum coverage while maintaining a sleeker, more outdoor-leaning design than traditional trucker jackets or transitional puffers. Admittedly, the waxed jacket tends to conjure one of two […] The post Tom Beckbe Introduces a Refined Breed of Waxed Jacket 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 stunning watch drop forged by The James Brand and Timex, lovely loafers from J.Press and a compact Leica camera you’ll want to check out. And […] The post Products of the Week: Watches, Danner Boots and Leicas appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There’s no place like Hong Kong. I love its beautiful chaos. I love feeling small amongst seven million strangers under the compact city’s cloud-brushing skyline. I love experiencing the endless sensory overload from the MTR stations’ rapid-speed, always-packed escalators that lead to rapid-speed, always-prompt trains. The rhythmic, high-pitched beeping heard at pedestrian crossings that initially […] The post The Perfect Hotel Does Exist: A Luxurious Weekend at the Four Seasons Hotel Kong Kong appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
“I think there’s something in the water,” my mom says, gesturing out the window of the Greg Mortimer, Aurora Expeditions’ 120-passenger expedition ship. But it could be anything — a piece of ice, a bird, driftwood, shadows — and it quickly floats by into the distance. It’s early morning during breakfast on our first full […] The post Searching for Polar Bears in Svalbard appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
We all learned our ABCs long ago, but what about the ABC islands? For most people, those are harder to recite. This trio of islands comprises Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao and is situated in the Southern Caribbean, just north of Venezuela. Bonaire is the least trafficked and generally lesser-known of the three. Measuring a little […] The post Bonaire Is a Small Island With Big Adventure appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Now that Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States, it’s time to shift the political conversation to food. This is especially timely with the holidays on the horizon, when food and politics are what extended families talk about when they run out of things to say about football. As a vegetarian […] The post Eat Your Veggies? We (Probably) Know How You Voted. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
To celebrate the incredible drinking cultures of Europe, we dove deep into 10 different countries to get to know a little more about what’s in their glasses and how it got there in the first place. Click here to see them all. My last trip to Ireland in 2022 involved 10 days where I deliberately ate some sort […] The post The Drinking Culture of Ireland appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Ever been to Worn & Wound’s WindUp Watch Fair and thought to yourself: Damn, I wish I could design and sell a cool watch? Well, that dream might just be closer than you think. Announced at Dubai Watch Week’s Horology Forum in Hong Kong last month, the UAE-founded event series is teaming up with Grail […] The post Here’s Your Chance to Get Your Dream Watch Produced appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
What we’re drinking: Baker’s High-Rye Bourbon, Booker’s Batch 2024-3: The Master Distillers Batch, Little Book The Infinite: Edition 1 and Knob Creek 18 Where they’re from: All of these expressions arrive courtesy of James B. Beam Distilling Co. in Clermont, KY, which also crafts Jim Beam, Basil Hayden, Old Overholt, Legend and many, many more. […] The post Review: Baker’s, Booker’s and Little Book Bourbons, Explained appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Consumers have never been more educated and conscious about what they drink and where that drink comes from. Traditionally crafted, additive-free tequila is now deservedly considered by enthusiasts to be as complex and rich as a fine Cognac or single-malt whisky, and no tequila embodies what enthusiasts are currently looking for more than Fortaleza. The […] The post How Fortaleza Crafts the Pappy Van Winkle of Tequila appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Starlight Williams, History From emperors and conspiracies to gladiatorial games and daily life—see how well you know the empire that shaped the ancient world. [...]
Matthew Titterington, The Boar Once I got into University, I decided that I wanted to learn more about areas of literature I have never investigated before- and then I found out about Epic [...]
Guardian staff reporter, The Guardian Brief letters: Revolt history | Magicians | Weather forecasters | Assisted dying | Procrastination. [...]
Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Mag The now-beloved book, which centers on a sailor seeking revenge against a sperm whale, was initially met with lukewarm sales, only achieving iconic status after [...]
José Lingna Nafafé, The Conversation The ideas and movement for the abolition of transatlantic slavery began largely among Africans. [...]
Donald M. Bishop, Trinity Tripod In September, I attended the "First Illumination" of the National World War I Memorial in Washington, a short distance from the White House on Pennsylvania [...]
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone Elon Musk has long boosted Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a meme of a Shiba Inu — could now be the name of a government office under Trump. [...]
Staff, Ancient Origins In an exciting discovery from Israel's Nahal-Ein Gev II archaeological site, a collection of perforated, donut-shaped stones may represent some of the earliest evidence [...]
Gregory Wakeman, HISTORY Roman citizens could enter the arena for free to watch gladiator fights, mock naval battles, wild animal hunts—and plenty of death. [...]
David DesRosiers, RealClearPolitics This is RealClearPolitics' seventh presidential election. More than two decades ago, RCP set out to provide one-stop shopping for those who care about [...]
Philip Klinkner, The Conversation The Democrats' loss of the White House has provoked major soul-searching among party members. A scholar recommends a review of history to avoid [...]
Harriet Marsden, The Week Brutal civil war and widespread looting threatens the African nation's ancient heritage. [...]
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 [...]
USERN (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, https://usern.org) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that supports interdisciplinary science across borders. Founded in 2015 by a distinguished Iranian Immunologist, Prof. Nima Rezaei, USERN has grown to acquire a membership of 26,000 members in 140 countries, from 22 scientific disciplines. From November 2022 I am its President.read more [...]
No one likes getting a needle but most want a vaccine. A new paper shows progress for messenger RNA (mRNA), that can be sprayed and inhaled thanks to improved lipid-polymer nanoparticle technology for holding mRNA that is stable when nebulized and successfully delivers aerosols, liquid droplets, in mouse lungs. A mouse study means this is only EXPLORATORY but the authors of the paper, including scientists from oRNA Therapeutics (RNA medicine) and Moderna (mRNA medicine), have filed for a patent while they get ready to see about human trials. read more [...]
Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his US followers over the last 25 years have staunchly opposed vaccines, latching on to any claim that they cause autism or should be available for lawsuits even if they harm no one.They really won't like a new experimental vaccine for Smallpox and Monkeypox that avoids the side effects of a current live virus version while not needing two doses, as the replication-deficient virus version does. It uses the horsepox virus as a protective agent to confer the safety of a multi-dose vaccine in a single shot. read more [...]
General medicine, routine visits and such, have gradually gone from M.D.s to including Osteopaths and now Physicians Assistants with no decline in quality, and Large Language Models, colloquially called "Artificial Intelligence", like ChatGPT can assist at very low cost.read more [...]
Italy as we know it today had not been such since the days of the Roman Empire. You can see that last remnant today in the existence of The Vatican smack in the middle of Rome but at one point they held a substantial amount of territory. Like Americans, Italians are inherently rebellious. If you are on a plane flight and a flight attendant complains about someone smoking a cigarette, savvy travelers know it's an Italian in the bathroom. It is part of the reason Americans love Italian people. Unlike Americans, Italians had to fight not only each other for over [...]
Our outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is due to our preference for democracy over autocracy, and to the danger of Russia pushing further westward into Europe. Perhaps most of all, we abhor the idea of one country violating the borders of another one.read more [...]
In 2008, fresh off a decisive victory over Democratic establishment candidate Senator Hillary Clinton in the primary and one over highly-regarded Senator John McCain in the general election, President-elect Obama began to engage in worrisome behavior.His transition team, those who set the tone for his Cabinet and first 100 days, was over-represented with UFO believers. His inner circle included a guy who thoughts girls can't do math. I was only two years into science media by then so I believed that science academics were a cross-section of America - diverse - and that President George W. Bush hated science and [...]
This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture scheme being pushed by the UK Energy Secretary, who along with a considerable number of our politicians is aiming to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions as soon as possible, if not before. This has left many in this country fearing the spectre of freezing in their own homes.While there is a lot of politics involved, I wonder if what she is saying about carbon capture is true, and is the proposal a lot of соbblers?Readers, please give your views on this matter.read [...]
Nowadays we study the Universe using a number of probes and techniques. Over the course of the past 100 years we moved from barely using optical telescopes, that give us access to the flux of visible photons from galaxies, supernovae, and other objects of interest, to exploiting photons of any energy - gamma rays, x rays, ultraviolet and infrared radiation, microwaves; and then also using charged cosmic radiation (including protons and light nuclei, electrons and positrons), neutrinos, and lastly, gravitational waves. read more [...]
Cigarettes are the top lifestyle risk factor for getting cancer, though alcohol and obesity have begun to close the gap as awareness of the risks of cigarettes, coupled with more nicotine smoking cessation and harm reduction tools, have caused cigarette use to decline.Even if you get cancer, quitting smoking improves outcomes. read more [...]
When Senator Elizabeth Warren had her claims of native ancestry debunked by DNA testing, it was a warning shot to everyone who identifies that way - don't take a test. Most native Americans had long said that anyway, they knew how biology worked better Washington DC staffers. After five generations there is a chance there will be no evidence of an ancestor so natives have long told their communities not to participate. If there are only a few hundred in a database, the database is meaningless and natives tribes can continue their 'we agree you are and you agree you [...]
Testicular cancer is the most common solid tumor in young men, with approximately 10,000 diagnoses in the U.S. each year.read more [...]
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, who many have called “the godfather of AI”. The award seems apt for the time we are in.read more [...]
If cultural pundits can invent an Anthropocene Epoch then a Digital Epoch makes even more sense. In 2000, only in Japan did you see people on trains four inches from other humans chatting other humans on other trains, most of whom they'd never meet. Now that is everyone in the developed world.read more [...]
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) vegetarian advocacy group has a paper out arguing that common broiler chickens not only learn more than the obvious, like which bowl has food, they get happier learning. Their marketing of the paper suggests they know who their key demographic is; middle-aged wealthy white women. And if you want them, you invoke "The Gilmore Girls", a show about a genius single mother with an equally intelligent daughter and they are best friends and talk really fast and use a lot of Proust references.read more [...]
Earlier this year I mentioned here that I would be writing an article on how the utility function of experiments in fundamental science could be specified, as an enabling step toward the formalization of a co-design optimization problem. Now, as the deadline for submission approaches and the clock keeps ticking, I am returning to this topic and am mulling over the matter, so I thought it would be appropriate to dump here a few thoughts on the matter.Co-designread more [...]
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy is a prominent physician and long-time evangelist for chemical interventions among trans youth and has been conducting those chemical interventions for nearly two decades.It remains controversial, critics say young people can't provide informed consent for many, many things but Dr. Olson-Kennedy wanted to do a U.S. study similar to one done in Netherlands which found kids given these interventions were happier.(1)read more [...]
Last year, the American Psychological Association (APA) issued a health advisory on the use of social media by adolescents. This was based on mounting scientific evidence that social media has both benefits and risks for teens, and that parents and guardians needed better advice on how to balance the two.read more [...]
It's commonplace for older generations to criticize the young. In my early career, an older fellow told me he wouldn't hire anyone who didn't know how to use a slide rule. Another only a decade older than me said he only wanted to work with people who had built their own crystal radio or some equivalent.read more [...]
In ancient Egypt, the heart was the key to a happy afterlife. It lived on after death, they believed, and in the Duat, the Netherworld, it revealed a truth man's words could not hide.The 42 gathered gods would measure the heart and if it weighed more than the Feather of Truth which adorned the head of Maat, their Goddess of Justice, Order, and Truth, it was consumed by the Goddess Ammit, Devourer of the Dead, who had the body of a crocodile, a lion, and a hippopotamus, and you were gone from existence forever.People had a lot of ways to [...]
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