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Trump's approval rating has declined to the point where his approval is "underwater"-that is, his net approval (approval minus disapproval) has turned negative in the both the RCP and Silver Bulletin running averages. And his net approval rating is even more negative (-8) on the all-important issue of the economy, Trump's key issue in the 2024 election. Polls regularly show gloomy voter assessments of the economy's current trajectory. In a recent Echelon Insights survey, voters by 17 points say the economy is getting worse rather than improving and by 18 points that their personal financial [...]
Ending universal injunctions once and for all is the least the chief justice can do to defend not only the judiciary, but our country. [...]
Here are six education reforms that would improve American schools, and they could enjoy bipartisan support, to boot. [...]
Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I'd have found stories about the administration cutting grants to universities and detonating thousands of campus-related jobs horrifying. [...]
Backstage in a dressing room drinking a can of diet Mountain Dew as 900 people filled a theater in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn't be there if not for "the void." [...]
Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in "greenhouse gas reduction" money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention. [...]
This column has done the not-so-important work of chronicling the ignominious performance of CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan, at least since she made herself [...]
For half a century, conspiracy theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy have flourished. President Donald Trump himself has dabbled in these theories, once claiming that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's father was involved in the former president's murder. [...]
Tony Dolan, who died this month at age 76, was a sage to many and a friend to freedom lovers around the world. [...]
Now more than ever, it seems, politics demands our attention. It is difficult to predict what developments await us in the coming week, much less the coming years of the Trump presidency. What will the geopolitical order look like by 2028? What will the federal government look like? What will the Democratic or Republican Parties look like? [...]
A new poll by Honest Elections Project Action found that 82% of Florida voters want foreign contributions toward ballot initiatives to stop. [...]
Attacks on Tesla and other violent threats are nothing short of domestic terrorism, said AG Pam Bondi - but Democrats are either smirking or silently approving. [...]
From the start of his second term, President Donald Trump and his administration signaled a willingness - even a desire - to flout the law in their quest to overhaul the federal government. [...]
Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics Podcast: Tom Bevan interviews Sean Davis, CEO and Co-Founder of The Federalist, about the judiciary's efforts to thwart Donald Trump. [...]
Chief Justice John Roberts' rebuke of President Donald Trump's call to impeach a judge marks a growing showdown between Trump and the courts. [...]
A showdown between the White House and courts over impoundment will determine the fate of the republic. [...]
The ex-president has been out of sight since inauguration. But party luminaries feel he is still casting a shadow. [...]
After the 2024 election, voters have taken a look back and Joe Biden's ratings and the Democratic Party's have tumbled. They see a leader who let the left run his administration. [...]
The Senate Democratic leader said the country hasn't reached a constitutional crisis. For some Democrats, his denial shows he's unfit to lead the party. [...]
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy started the U.S. Agency for International Development with a strategic vision to expand American partnership and repel Soviet influence. He understood then what President Donald Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio do now - American foreign policy cannot remain static. It must evolve to meet the demands of the moment and the needs of the American people. [...]
The head of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, was sacked Friday, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he no longer trusts him, and fallout from a report on the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack."The Government unanimously approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to end ISA Director Ronen Bar's term of office," a statement said.He will leave his post when his successor is appointed or by April 10 at the latest, the statement said. [...]
The head of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, was dismissed Friday, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.Netanyahu last week cited an "ongoing lack of trust" as the reason for moving to sack Ronen Bar, who was appointed in October 2021 for a five-year term."The Government unanimously approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to end ISA Director Ronen Bar's term of office," a statement said. [...]
Algerian prosecutors have requested a 10-year prison sentence for French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, accused of undermining the country's territorial integrity, local media reported Thursday.Sansal, a prominent figure in North African modern francophone literature, is known for his criticism of Algerian authorities as well as of Islamists.The 80-year-old was detained in November upon arrival at Algiers airport, at a time of growing tensions between France and its former colony. [...]
The Trump administration green-lit a $100 million sale of air-to-air missiles for Saudi Arabia as the Pentagon weighs deployments of additional air defense assets to the region. [...]
As the civilian death toll climbs in Gaza, can the self-proclaimed peacemaker president get both sides back to the negotiating table? [...]
As the civilian death toll climbs in Gaza, can the self-proclaimed peacemaker president get both sides back to the negotiating table? [...]
As the civilian death toll climbs in Gaza, can the self-proclaimed peacemaker president get both sides back to the negotiating table? [...]
As the civilian death toll climbs in Gaza, can the self-proclaimed peacemaker president get both sides back to the negotiating table? [...]
Israel's military on Thursday expanded ground operations across Gaza, after it reported missiles intercepted from Yemen and Hamas militants said they fired rockets towards Tel Aviv.The rocket fire from Hamas was its first military response to the growing civilian death toll from Israel's resumption of aerial bombardment and ground operations in Gaza this week. [...]
As Turkey’s opposition parties rally in solidarity with Istanbul's mayor, Turkish authorities have moved forward with more detentions. [...]
As Turkey’s opposition parties rally in solidarity with Istanbul's mayor, Turkish authorities have moved forward with more detentions. [...]
As Turkey’s opposition parties rally in solidarity with Istanbul's mayor, Turkish authorities have moved forward with more detentions. [...]
As Turkey’s opposition parties rally in solidarity with Istanbul's mayor, Turkish authorities have moved forward with more detentions. [...]
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on dubious terror charges has rattled investor confidence, sending the lira plunging, triggering market turmoil and raising fears of prolonged political instability. [...]
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on dubious terror charges has rattled investor confidence, sending the lira plunging, triggering market turmoil and raising fears of prolonged political instability. [...]
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on dubious terror charges has rattled investor confidence, sending the lira plunging, triggering market turmoil and raising fears of prolonged political instability. [...]
The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on dubious terror charges has rattled investor confidence, sending the lira plunging, triggering market turmoil and raising fears of prolonged political instability. [...]
US President Donald Trump "fully supports" Israel's deadly resumption of air and ground operations in Gaza, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday, blaming Hamas for the violence."He fully supports Israel and the IDF and the actions that they've taken in recent days," Leavitt told reporters when asked if Trump was trying to get a Gaza ceasefire back on track."The president made it very clear to Hamas that if they did not release all of the hostages there would be all hell to pay, and unfortunately, Hamas chose to play games in the media with lives." [...]
A key battle is unfolding between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. [...]
A key battle is unfolding between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. [...]
Mark Mills, City Journal Despite a tenacious narrative, history shows the Green New Deal vision is not inevitable—it's impossible. [...]
Editorial, Issues & Insights We keep pinching ourselves to make sure we aren't dreaming. [...]
Joe Rennison, NYT So far, the Federal Reserve has avoided commenting on the increasingly uncertain outlook, but investors are waiting to see whether it changes its projections on Wednesday. [...]
Rachel Hartman, U.S. News & World Report Here's a comparison of when individuals plan to retire versus when they actually stop working. [...]
Joel Mathis, The Week Measures make retirement, disability benefits harder to obtain [...]
John Tamny, RealClearMarkets Recently a prominent member of the libertarian community died. Notable about the individual's death is what he left behind. Though he earned good money [...]
Robert Whaples, The Hill Most Americans of a certain age can remember the penny candy counter at their favorite mom-and-pop variety store. Both penny candy and traditional mom-and-pop stores [...]
Mark Jamison, RCM In the waning days of the Biden administration, a flurry of regulatory activity sought to cement policies that would be difficult [...]
Richard Vigilante & George Gilder, The Next Am. Century Liberty is the winning strategy [...]
Bruce Thompson, RCM House Republicans have begun meeting to begin considering their next steps on their tax reform bill. For a majority of them, this will be the first major tax bill they [...]
Charles Gasparino, New York Post Trump has long argued that Oracle – co-founded by his close friend Larry Ellison, the Silicon Valley billionaire – should be at the center of any deal [...]
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 [...]
Road trips are a uniquely American pastime, and no journey is complete without a pit stop at a gas station for fuel — both for your car and your stomach. While gas stations aren’t typically culinary destinations, they’re home to some of the most beloved, unexpected and downright incredible eats in the country. From burritos […] The post America’s Best Gas Station Foods, Ranked appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Craft beer is a wildly different scene than it was even five years ago. 2020 was a pandemic-shaped anomaly, but in 2019, growth was the goal for many of the country’s 8,275 breweries, in hot pursuit of menu real estate and shelf space far and wide. People were lining up for hyped hazy releases and […] The post Hindsight Is 20/20, Even with Beer Goggles: 10 Brewery Owners on What They’d Do Differently Opening Taprooms in 2025 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The two-ingredient cocktail isn’t new, especially if you’ve ever had a highball, a Rusty Nail, Black Russian or Mimosa. But it’s also sort of a lie. Even the earliest description of a cocktail, from 1806, defined cocktails as “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters.” So that’s basically three […] The post Yes, You Can Make a Great Cocktail With Just Two Ingredients appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
You’re in search of deals. Look no further — InsideHook has got you covered. After all, scouring for niche, ridiculously discounted menswear deals on the corners of the internet is one of the things we do best. Our crack team (read: obsessive online shoppers) have rounded up a variety of garb — everything from basic […] The post The Best Menswear Deals on the Internet This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I’m a longtime fan of Bespoke Post and more recently a member. As a member, I have the opportunity to receive a curated box of top-shelf goods from cool brands every month. I explain the process in detail here, but the gist is that you sign up for free, take a personality quiz to tailor […] The post What March Boxes From Bespoke Post Have to Offer appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
You’ve definitely seen British upstart turned proper label Percival before. You might not know that you’ve seen them before, but you have — superhero A-listers like Chris Evans and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (also, us) have long sworn by their rakish knit polos, and their collaborations with celebrity stylists like Harry Lambert and Ilaria Urbinati […] The post Sorry, Rain, But Menswear’s Favorite Mac Is Currently on Sale appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
by Paolo Sandoval The reemergence of temperate weather and longer days of sun are as clear an indication as any: a new season of proper luxury fashion, imbued with the expressive colors and flexible silhouettes that winter tends to put on ice, is in full bloom. In conjunction with The Stitch, we’ve pulled together a seasonal […] The post The Spring Luxury Style Edit appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
How the f*ck are people able to afford travel? Assuming I’m not overcome by any wild impulses before end of day, I will have spent somewhere in the vicinity of $58 by the time I get home from work tonight. That covers my commute, a cup of coffee, a dog walk and lunch from one […] The post How Are People Affording to Travel in This Economy? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
What we’re drinking: Hard Cut Vodka Where it’s from: Hard Cut was founded by Dolph Lundgren, the longtime action star (Rocky IV, Masters of the Universe, Creed 2), and with his wife, movie producer Emma Korkdal. Why we’re drinking this: A celebrity spirits brand that’s not a tequila centered around Ivan Drago? I mean, this […] The post Dolph Lundgren’s Vodka Isn’t So Punchy (in a Good Way) appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
From the famous islands in the south to the hill towns in the north, Thailand has long been considered a party destination, despite having some of the highest alcohol prices in Asia. To avoid the high cost of premium alcohol, both locals and tourists often turn to cheaper Thai brands of whiskey and rum. As […] The post Thai Rice Whiskey Is All Grown Up appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In the rapidly evolving world of college sports, the recent narrative presents the young football or basketball player as the disadvantaged, underdog protagonist pitted against the greedy, exploitative monolith of the university program. The story angles a jaundiced spotlight on the conglomerates of athletic directors, presidents and boards of trustees as they make millions off […] The post College Athletes Got Their Payday. Now Comes the Reckoning. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
From springifying your grooming cabinet to the style trends you should try your hand at this season, my male colleagues have done a pretty thorough job of identifying the ways in which you can spruce up your appearance before the warm weather hits — and it’s only mid-March. However, I do believe it’s time to […] The post Here’s What You Should Wear This Spring, According to Cool Women appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Prior to my career as a style and grooming editor, I had no idea luxury or niche underwear brands existed. To me, underwear was a necessity, and I assumed CK trunks were the pinnacle of elevated undergarments. But when I started working on a loungewear feature in the early aughts (as an intern), I called […] The post Four Men’s Underwear Brands That Should Be on Your Radar appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you have a Netflix subscription, there’s a very good chance curiosity got the best of you and you watched an episode or eight of How to Build a Sex Room. The 2022 original series from the streaming platform is a spicy twist on the classic home renovation show, wherein interior designer Melanie Rose helps […] The post Everything You Need to Build the Kinkiest Sex Room of Your Dreams appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Unlike, say, video gamers, we horological nerds are fixated on a technology that is completely obsolete and has been so for well over half a century. I mean, think about it: A $10, battery-operated Casio keeps better time than my Rolex Submariner. And what’s more, I fully acknowledge this and do not remotely give a […] The post If You’re a Camera Guy (or Gal), You Need This Watch appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In partnership with Vital Choice I absolutely love seafood of all kinds. From a simple piece of salmon to a tower of oysters and lobster, there are few things more satisfying. But it’s not always easy to source sustainable fish and shellfish, especially if you don’t have a reliable fishmonger nearby. That’s why I’ve been super […] The post What It’s Like to Order Sustainable Seafood From Vital Choice appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
He’s tall, dark and handsome and has won an Oscar for Best Actor…twice? Yes. Adrien Brody is back on our feed, but not for his accolade-worthy performance in The Brutalist. This time he’s partnered with Canadian luggage company Monos to help land their first-ever Aluminum collection, which went live March 17. The drop includes Monos’s […] The post Adrien Brody’s Partnership With Monos Luggage Has Landed appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
We all have that sweatshirt we reach for first. You know the one. It’s the hoodie you grab when it’s 6 a.m. and you take your dog out to pee. Or maybe it’s a fleece, which you toss on when you run out to get a cold brew on Sunday. It’s the layer you wear […] The post Consider the Quilted Sweatshirt. Specifically, This One From Orvis. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Whether you’ve resolved to improve your office wardrobe or are desperate to try something this spring, 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 and […] The post The J.Crew Sale Would Like to Remind You That It’s Spring appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Lately my algorithm’s been feeding me a diet of “fitness checklist” content. Basically, wellness influencers post a list of 10-12 benchmarks paired to a grand claim: if you can knock all of these out, you’re an elite athlete. One I saw the other day went further than that, writing “you’re in the top 1%” if […] The post Don’t Trust the Internet’s Viral Fitness Checklists appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Paul Woodadge & Kevin Hymel, Warfare History Network Two 101st Airborne medics treated U.S. and German wounded in the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damien on D-Day. [...]
Jonny Wilkes, HistoryExtra By the early 1920s, the swastika, an ancient religious symbol, had been adopted by Adolf Hitler to represent the German Reich. How did it become the symbol of the [...]
Joshua Skovlund, Task & Purpose Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and freon grenades. [...]
Marianne Holdzkom, The Conversation John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the press would mean the end of the [...]
Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Mag Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the real stories in what [...]
Jordan Friedman, HISTORY U.S. place names are rooted in Indigenous languages, physical characteristics and honorifics for politicians and pioneers—and they can be controversial. [...]
Israel Benporat, RealClearHistory Legend has it that nearly two and a half centuries before President Trump [...]
Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigations Can a single judge unilaterally thwart the president of the United States? That's the contentious question the Trump administration [...]
Simar Bajaj, Time The U.S. may add new warning labels on alcohol. But the history of cigarette warning labels suggests it's not enough. [...]
Myles Burke, BBC Culture Stylish and experimental, Breathless heralded a new era of film-making when it was released 65 years ago. In 1964, its director told the BBC why he broke every rule [...]
Carolyn Wilke, NatGeo The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican people. [...]
Selena Wisnom, Historytoday When it was discovered in the 19th century, the Library of Ashurbanipal revealed an ancient Assyrian empire previously known only through myth. [...]
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 this article I'm going to examine how student feedback plays a pivotal role in enhancing learning design and engagement, particularly in online education environments. I will explore the mechanisms by which timely, constructive feedback not only improves course content and delivery but also empowers students as co-creators in the learning process.read more [...]
If you insist you will only eat berries picked by hand near a stream, you are virtue signaling to other wealthy people that you have more money than than they do, while masking it in a halo of claiming to care about taste or renewability or other nature.No one is fooled. That is why restaurants and consumers who fetish-ize wild caught fight while claiming it is more nutritious or tastes better are so cloying. Sure, there can be differences in taste, just like if you give a chicken different feed, but that is easily solvable, and has been, like in [...]
The world is producing more food using fewer pesticides than ever, thanks to modern science. The gap between modern pesticide usage and organic food pesticides needed per calorie of food got so large, up to 600% more organic pesticides used, that California stopped itemizing organic pesticides separately to improve the optics of the organic industry.read more [...]
Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly -something that is theoretically possible but only rarely achieved in practice- you are in statistical heaven: you can use the maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation, and you can get to understand a lot about the whole problem. read more [...]
It's no secret that cats have the same α2,3-linked (SAα2,3) sialic acid receptor as birds, which means their mortality from bird flu which acts via that receptor is 50%. Or that raw pet food, raw milk, and organic chickens that refuse medicine are key transmitters of the disease outside the wild.Why are you still buying that stuff? Why did you ever? read more [...]
Environmental lawyers, especially lawyers at Natural Resources Defense Council, exist to sue companies and to have casus belli they need to suggest corporations are killing us all. It is no surprise that NRDC has hired lots of lawyers who are anti-vaccine, anti-cell-phone, anti-food (ingredients, colors, the type of seed), anti-nuclear, etc.If you don't know any scientists or Republicans, and NRDC employs neither, it is easy to demonize them because you never have them looking at you over lunch.(1) NRDC knows a Republican insider now. Their former lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is part of the Trump administration and the "mainstream" [...]
The book is author Alex Hannaford’s lament about changes in Austin, Texas, since his initial visit to the city in 1999. This at first spurred your reviewer, who moved to Austin in 1969, to think, “1999? Well, isn’t that just too precious?” read more [...]
The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that food. And stop buying raw milk. All of it. Now. And never start again.read more [...]
Imagine if I put out a claim that I had prevented teens from playing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II" and therefore saving billions in dollars in future mental health care costs.Well, I can, because COD:MWII has dropped a lot in usage from a few years ago. Sure, critics might claim it is an older game and new games come along and people switch to those, but if I am at FDA, none of that matters.read more [...]
When a tourist visits California, the first thing they notice getting off of the airplane is a warning sign that the material they are near will give them cancer. Then another one. Then another. Soon, they become invisible but not before people do searches to see how much more cancer Californians develop than everyone else.(1)Not only will most things in Walmart have a cancer warning, the building itself can give you cancer. Photo: Hank Campbellread more [...]
After a decade of being thrown out by the courts and being slightly modified and enacted again, changes drastically expanding the definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) to include man-made ponds on family farms may finally be ending.read more [...]
The Trump administration announced a major milestone for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory with the installation of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera on the telescope. Next up is the final phase of testing before capturing "first look" images and then the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time will begin.read more [...]
Today, the best way to prevent malaria remains DDT. Though banned in the US by a politician over the objections of scientists, it is still recommended by the United Nations for use where malaria has not been wiped out. Our FDA even wrote the book on how to spray it in homes.Despite 70 years of effort, viable affordable replacements remain elusive but a new program hopes LLMs could help find one. The National Institutes of Health funded a proposal to use machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to help generate new mosquito repellents.read more [...]
St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, founded by Catholic nuns in 1857, reports implant of Australia’s first BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart. Invented by Dr. Daniel Timms, it is a single moving part, no valves, and a no-contact suspension system, which means no mechanical wear, and the patient lasted over 100 days while waiting for an artificial heart. He even went home with it installed.The work was led by Dr. Paul Jansz and the anonymous patient was sent home in February. He then received a donor heart early in March.read more [...]
Claims about occupational hazards, chemicals correlated to disease, occur every week, from non-stick spatulas to flame-retardant couches, and the group targeted more by those efforts than pregnant women are first responders like firefighters.A new paper links gliomas in the brain or spinal cords to a specific mutation and then using epidemiological correlation to "suggest" cause from haloalkene, a common chemical in use for 600 years and in the 20th century in nearly every home with fire extinguishers, but then denying they are trying to suggest cause down at the bottom.read more [...]
(Image by Henry Reich) One thing, singular. Two or more things, plural. Subjects must agree with verbs in number: It is, they are. read more [...]
I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they're being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turned scientific differences into policy. It created fairness.If you're in a binary world you may have decided one thing about my beliefs in the first eight words of that paragraph and then something else after the rest of it. If you insist there is no binary in biological sex, I hope you at least consider the existence [...]
Winter is not over yet, but I am already busy fixing the details of some conferences, schools, and lectures I will give around Europe this summer. Here I wish to summarize them, in the hope of arising the interest of some of you in the relevant events I will attend to.read more [...]
The right-wing may have co-opted anti-vaccine beliefs from the left and changed Science Is a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy hysteria into Science Is A Vast Big Pharma Conspiracy but luckily most of the wealthy people are still in states like California, so the right hasn't taken up overspending on chickens that never had medicine and never will, or raw milk, or raw pet food.Those are three giant preventable disease vectors for and the west coast is still doing all of them. The latest disease spreader for wealthy progressive elites is Wild Coast Raw of Olympia frozen Boneless Free Range Chicken [...]
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