On Day 3 of our trek to Everest Base Camp (our 5th or 6th day in Nepal) we took an acclimatization hike on our layover day in Namche Bazaar. From the top of a high hill we had our first views of Mt. Everest. Quite spectacular.
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While Democrats have been panicking about President Biden losing the 2024 election for some time now, that is not totally rational. National popular-vote polling remains very close, so it's far too early to write Joe off. In the RealClearPolitics averages, Trump leads Biden by 1.1 percent in a head-to-head contest, pretty much where the race has been for the last six months. [...]
RCP co-founder Tom Bevan interviews South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott about Donald Trump's effort to appeal to black voters and whether he would serve as Trump's running mate, Friday on the RealClearPolitics radio show. [...]
In painting the 2024 election as a democracy-or-bust binary choice, the president risks losing voters already dissatisfied with the status quo. [...]
The president channels a predecessor in seeking to shield White House tapes. [...]
The guardrails of democracy reined him in last time. But they're weakening. [...]
Rubio showed how to respond when media partisans ask Republicans to prematurely commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election. [...]
As housing costs continue to be the biggest driver of core inflation, renters are feeling increasingly disillusioned with politicians. [...]
Doug Burgum was bracing for disaster at the top of the ticket. "The Clintons might be the luckiest family in the world because Bill doesn't win in 1992 without Ross Perot," he told a North Dakota radio show eight years ago, "and Hillary doesn't win in 2016 without Donald Trump." [...]
Does the presumptive Republican presidential nominee understand the magnitude of America's challenge? [...]
The outcome of the presidential election isn't likely to hinge on abortion, immigration or even climate change. It is likely to depend, instead, on the price of gasoline in the leadup to the vote. [...]
Opinion: 'Vote Them Out!' might boot me from the Arizona Supreme Court. But it could be far worse for our state's judicial merit selection system. [...]
Leaders in Washington should have answered all these questions, and more, before sending billions to Ukraine. The truth is, though, few have even considered them. [...]
The International Criminal Court is seeking warrants to arrest not only three senior Hamas leaders-but also Benjamin Netanyahu. [...]
The Biden administration's diversity efforts are based on easily debunked research. [...]
Barry Eichengreen asks whether anything can or should be done about the US greenback's strength, especially against Asian currencies [...]
Unknown's host, Charlie Stone, chats with Rainn Wilson about his journey from being a sitcom actor to exploring spirituality and using it as a tool for mental health and making the world a better place. [...]
When Karim Khan was sworn in as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, he said the court should be judged by its acts -- "the proof of the pudding should be in the eating."And by seeking arrest warrants for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Hamas figures, Khan has shown he is not afraid to take on the world's most controversial cases.The application followed an arrest warrant issued last year for President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which promptly slapped arrest warrants on Khan himself. [...]
The death in a helicopter crash of president Ebrahim Raisi, seen as a possible successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reshuffled the cards in the succession process and increased the spotlight on the Iranian number one's son Mojtaba as a contender.While analysts emphasise it is impossible to know for sure the intentions of Iran's leadership, Raisi's record as a pillar of the Islamic republic over several decades made him an inevitable candidate to become its third supreme leader after Khamenei and revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. [...]
At least 10 female farm workers died in Egypt when a minibus plunged off a river ferry and into the Nile northwest of Cairo on Tuesday, the health ministry said."The toll is at 10 and could rise," ministry spokesman Hossam Abdelghaffar told AFP.The state's flagship Al-Ahram newspaper reported the accident earlier and said the driver, who had released the handbrake, was arrested while trying to flee.He had gotten into "a verbal argument" with one of the passengers before leaving the vehicle, it reported. [...]
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for residents to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily and for Israeli Jews to settle there in their stead. [...]
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for residents to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily and for Israeli Jews to settle there in their stead. [...]
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for residents to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily and for Israeli Jews to settle there in their stead. [...]
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for residents to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily and for Israeli Jews to settle there in their stead. [...]
Four ships from the United States and France are transporting aid from Larnaca port to the Gaza Strip amid the spiralling humanitarian crisis there, the Cyprus presidency said on Tuesday.Victor Papadopoulos from the presidential press office told state radio 1,000 tonnes of aid were shipped from Cyprus to the besieged Palestinian territory between Friday and Sunday.He said the vessels were shuttling between Gaza and the east Mediterranean island, a distance of about 360 kilometres (225 miles). [...]
Palestinian health officials said seven Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin, where an AFP correspondent reported masked gunmen later exchanged fire with Israeli forces.Explosions and gunfire were heard from inside the camp, while at least five gunmen clashed with troops in downtown Jenin city, the correspondent reported.Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military said troops had launched a "counterterrorism operation in Jenin and they were fighting with armed men", without providing further details. [...]
Israeli forces battled Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed a bid for an international arrest warrant against him on charges of war crimes in the Palestinian territory.US President Joe Biden backed Netanyahu in condemning as "outrageous" the bid by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor who also sought warrants against leaders of Palestinian militant group Hamas. [...]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the president's office said on Tuesday."First Lady Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia," an aggressive cancer of the white blood cells involved in battling infection, it said in a statement.She will undergo a "specialised treatment protocol" that requires social distancing to avoid infection, the statement said, adding that she will "temporarily withdraw from all direct engagements as part of her treatment plan". [...]
The first trial in France of officials from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad opened on Tuesday, with three top security officers tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.The Paris Criminal Court is hearing cases against the officials for their role in the deaths of two French Syrian men, Mazzen Dabbagh and his son Patrick, arrested in Damascus in 2013. [...]
Israel estimates that the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi will not significantly change Tehran’s policies on the region, but the death of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian could have some consequences. [...]
Israel estimates that the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi will not significantly change Tehran’s policies on the region, but the death of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian could have some consequences. [...]
Israel estimates that the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi will not significantly change Tehran’s policies on the region, but the death of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian could have some consequences. [...]
Israel estimates that the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi will not significantly change Tehran’s policies on the region, but the death of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian could have some consequences. [...]
From camel drivers in the Sahara to nomads on the Mongolian steppe, traditional herders the world over rely on earth's wildest open spaces to support an ancient way of life.But the expansive plains, tundra and savanna they inhabit are in much greater peril than previously thought, researchers said Tuesday in a major reassessment of the health of these crucial environments.As much as half of all rangelands -- encompassing some of nature's most striking vistas from the Arctic to the tropics, deserts and mountains -- are believed to be degraded, the report said. [...]
Human rights groups and emigre opposition factions expressed regret that Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi's death meant he never saw justice for crimes they say he committed during decades as a leading figure in the Islamic republic.A man who rose quickly through the ranks after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Raisi was accused by activists of overseeing mass executions of prisoners in 1988 followed by a litany of human rights abuses as judiciary chief and later president. [...]
The first trial in France of officials of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is to begin on Tuesday, with three top security officers to be tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.The Paris Criminal Court will try the three officials for their role in the deaths of two French Syrian men, Mazzen Dabbagh and his son Patrick, arrested in Damascus in 2013. [...]
Tens of thousands mourned Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday after his death in a helicopter crash, amid political uncertainty ahead of an election for his successor next month.Raisi and seven members of his entourage including foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were killed when their aircraft came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran on Sunday.Waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, mourners marched in the northwestern city of Tabriz, where Raisi's helicopter had been headed when it crashed. [...]
Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Investments There were two important inflation reports last week. One of them, the Producer Price Index, focuses on wholesale prices and it showed inflation hotter than [...]
Kevin Williamson, New York Post New inflation data may suggest the economy is strong, but a closer look reveals major weaknesses. [...]
Charlie Musick, RealClearMarkets "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interests." [...]
David McIntosh, Fox News Over the last four years, President Biden has decimated the American economy through reckless spending, overregulation and tax hikes. Things were better under former [...]
Alberto Mingardi, Law & Liberty Machines will never be more creative than their creators. [...]
John Tamny, RCM "Do you honestly think you're going to replace this?" "This" was a thick phone book, or "Yellow Pages", which on its own requires clarification since many reading this [...]
Allison Schrager, Manhattan Institute Yes, public markets are risky, but at least they are transparent, and they remain the best option for all but the most experienced investors. Retirement is [...]
Ron Lieber, The New York Times You may feel richer as you pay your mortgage down and home values go up. Using that equity is another matter entirely. [...]
Justin Klawans, Week The company's shrimp deal may have worked a little too well [...]
Jordan Rubin, MSNBC A new report on Justice Samuel Alito — no, not the inverted flag one — highlights a needless problem of his own creation. [...]
Kate Stalter, U.S. News & World Report Americans are raising the retirement bar as their magic number jumps 15% to $1.46 million. [...]
Cliff Asness, AQR Capital Mgmt. Continuing my occasional foray into sports analytics, in this post I look at the President's Trophy curse. This ubiquitous observation can be summed up as "the [...]
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 [...]
Scientists have been finding microplastics in the most unexpected places lately, including Arctic ice and the Great Blue Hole. The latest discovery involves a much less exotic location: namely, human testicles. There’s no easy way to phrase this: there’s now plenty of evidence that testicles are as likely as anywhere else to contain microplastics. That […] The post There’s a Good Chance You Have Plastic in Your Testicles appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When the second round of the playoffs began in the NBA and the NHL, four cities had a chance to make history by becoming the first town in history to claim both league’s champions: New York (Rangers and Knicks), Denver (Avalanche and Nuggets), Dallas (Stars and Mavericks) and Boston (Bruins and Celtics). With the third […] The post With Stars and Mavs Still Alive in the Playoffs, Dallas Could Be Titletown 2024 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Summer. A boon to adventurers, slackers and day drinkers everywhere. A time for playing hard and grilling harder, expanding your horizons, and finally figuring out how to slackline. A season of opportunity, if you don’t mind us waxing a little poetic. And, above all, a time to embrace your inner silly little guy proclivities and […] The post The Toys of Summer: 100 Products for the 100 Best Days of the Year appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Most of the InsideHook team is based here in New York City, where the temperature is climbing quickly, the sun is staying out longer and the patios and parks are beckoning us. That means one thing — it’s time to spruce up any outdoor space you may be so lucky to have access to. Conveniently, […] The post These Are the Best Outdoor Furniture Sales Happening This Memorial Day appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Save a few grand on that Orbitz ticket and instead head to Greektown, Chicago’s very own Greece-centric neighborhood. Greektown was founded in the early 1900s, eventually moving to its current location in the 1960s. It’s where both gyros and saganaki were introduced to the United States, so let that be your excuse to order an extra […] The post Where to Eat in Chicago’s Greektown Right Now appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
A great tailor is personal. Finding an individual or shop that excels at their craft, cares about your garments and understands your style marks a special relationship, almost akin to finding a favorite barber. The best tailoring takes more than just skill; it is an art form. Well-fitting garments make you look good and feel […] The post The 10 Best Tailors in NYC appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Unlike Chicago’s deep dish or New York’s large, foldable slices, Austin doesn’t have a distinctive style of pizza. But that doesn’t mean the city isn’t booming with pizza options. No matter what part of Austin you’re in, you’re sure to find a delicious slice. In the East, Bufalina doesn’t disappoint when it comes to Neapolitan […] The post The Best Pizza in Austin appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Los Angeles is a haven for vintage shopping. There’s the obvious front runner, the Rose Bowl Flea Market, which has become an institution and is renowned as one of the best secondhand shopping destinations in the world. During the last 50 years, this monthly Pasadena event has grown to include more than 2,500 vendors who […] The post The 7 Best Flea Markets in LA appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The subject of documentary films including Hitsville: The Making of Motown and Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Detroit native Berry Gordy’s iconic record label, which was founded in 1959 and boasted artists ranging from The Supremes and The Temptations to Marvin Gaye and The Jackson 5, has received countless acknowledgments and accolades over the […] The post The Story of Stax Records Finally Gets the Spotlight appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
With the veritable plethora of gastronomic offerings available in our nation’s capital, it can be difficult for DC newcomers, tourists or — let’s be honest — even locals, to explore the full menu of food options in the city. And given the unique personalities and culinary cultures of the various neighborhoods, scouring “best of” lists […] The post The Coolest DC Food Tours to Check Out appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
San Francisco is blessed with many opportunities to keep fit, including a couple of homegrown gym chains, but it should be said that not all gyms are created equal. What makes a superlative one? A few standouts around S.F. provide an answer, be it a wealth of equipment, outstanding amenities, aesthetically pleasing design, a unique […] The post The 6 Best Gyms in San Francisco appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Whether real or fictional, thefts of art and artifacts from museums remain an ongoing cultural fixation. We might read about the real-life theft of paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum or watch the planning of a Louvre heist in Lupin with equal amounts of suspense. One actual case of theft from a museum is […] The post Over 800 Stolen Artifacts Are Still Missing From the British Museum appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
New York-based humorist Fran Lebowitz once described the peculiar sensation of walking through the city in the smartphone era: “In New York, at a certain point, I felt I had the streets all to myself because I’m walking down the street looking up. [It’s like] the entire city [was] handed over to me.” She continued […] The post The Bleak Reason No One Says “BRB” or “GTG” Anymore appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Last month, as part of InsideHook’s series on the male friendship crisis, I wrote an essay on the potency of tennis partnerships. Simply put: adult men who play a weekly tennis match have got it made. It’s rare to have such a reliable blend of fitness and social interaction — and it’s little wonder that […] The post This Has Become One of Our Favorite Solo Workouts appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There’s a long history of breakthrough medical discoveries taking place around substances that most of us would consider, well, disgusting. No one much likes cleaning up mold, and yet mold played a huge role in the discovery of penicillin, which went on to save countless lives. More recently, a process known as fecal microbiota transplantation […] The post FDA Cracks Down on the Gray Market for Human Poop appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
This is the third installment of the 2024 edition of the French Dispatches, our on-the-ground coverage of the Cannes Film Festival. I did say, at the beginning of this festival, taking in Furiosa and the Opening Night tribute to jury president Greta Gerwig, that women’s rage and strong female characters would be a theme of […] The post In “The Substance,” Aging Is the Ultimate Body Horror appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
In 2022, Sheffield Hallam University’s Forced Labour Lab announced an unsettling set of findings about some of the globe’s most prominent automakers and the origins of certain components of their vehicles. That dovetailed with the release the same year of a U.N. report on forced labor in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China. In the […] The post BMW Is Among the Automakers Under Fire for Ties to Forced Labor appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Although the Celtics did not take the floor on Sunday, there was no bigger winner from what transpired on the court in the NBA than Boston’s basketball team after the Pacers beat the Knicks at MSG and the Timberwolves came from behind to knock off the defending champion Nuggets in Denver. Thanks to those victories, […] The post The Boston Celtics Are Officially at Risk of Becoming the Buffalo Bills appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Just because you might find yourself on a boat or at a barbecue this holiday weekend doesn’t mean you should neglect the time-honored tradition that is shopping the Memorial Day sales. Yet, seeing as many of us will likely be out and about this weekend, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the Memorial Day […] The post All the Memorial Day Sales Worth Shopping Through the Long Weekend appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Courant pitches its tech wares this way: “more than a charger, it’s a design choice.” And their wireless charging pads, stands and trays are certainly eye-catching. I’ve been buying and recommending Courant’s stuff as gifts for years, but I’ve never actually owned one of their products myself. As someone obsessed with both organization and phone […] The post Review: Courant’s Latest Charger Is a Sleek Addition to Your Home appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Ray Brescia, Time Magazine The 19th Century Case That Transformed the Legal System—And Holds a Lesson for the Trump Trials. [...]
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine A century ago, two Chicago teenagers killed an acquaintance named Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The case captivated the nation and continues to [...]
Dave Roos, History From dead rats implanted with bombs, to a giant explosive wheel, these World War II weapons were creative, but not very successful. [...]
Steven McKenzie, BBC News [...]
Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley, BBC An historian who brought to light a clandestine Hydrographic department, integral to the success of D-Day, is on the hunt for the people that [...]
Jack D. Warren, American Heritage Our nation is free because 250 years ago, brave men and women fought a war to establish the independence of the United States and created a system of [...]
Norman Miller, BBC Beer archaeologists are peering back millennia to recreate brews from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome using ancient methods and ingredients. [...]
Joshua Kagavi, Washington Post After Walt Disney's friends betrayed him, he scrambled to stave off bankruptcy with a mouse cartoon that's now in the public domain. [...]
Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Forward At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government decided that one of the best ways to fight Communism was… with a stuffed goat. [...]
Times of India [...]
Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian [...]
Maria Hunt, The Guardian Historians estimate a quarter of settlers of the US west were Black, moving cattle on horseback, settling towns and keeping the peace [...]
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 [...]
By and large, particle physicists confronted with the need to awe and enthuse an audience of laypersons will have no hesitation in choosing to speak about the Higgs boson and its mysteries - undoubtedly a fascinating story that requires one to start with the 1960ies and the intuition of a handful of theoretical physicists, and then grows epic in a crescendo of colliders that sought and missed the Higgs boson, and then the LHC which finally found the elusive signal of production and decay of that particle.read more [...]
Most people who try a diet don't succeed in keeping weight off long-term and that is trumpeted as a huge failure of dieting by people who, wait for it, are often selling a competing diet.The health truth is that even if you fail, you improved your health. Claims that people whose weight go up and down are dying earlier are just the same bad epidemiology that has journalists lamenting that International Agency for Research on Cancer activists claim pickle juice and aloe vera cause cancer.(1)read more [...]
You're not a Frank-people because you eat Doritos, despite what people writing lifestyle/diet books and New York Times journalists who gush over them want you to believe.Such claims are pure food populism by rich white people for rich white people. It's not science, it's instead not even right enough to be wrong.read more [...]
To bolster declining electric car sales, President Biden told EPA to create a new emissions standard. The agency put epidemiologists to work and declared that X (fill in any number you like, it's epidemiology, that's what they did) life-years have been lost without electric cars and trucks, and created a new emissions-standard that is effectively a ban on their competitors.read more [...]
If the government promises every home a great gardener, most people recognize they won't get a great gardener at all, they will probably get someone who couldn't get a better job while the lawn service they used to use is priced out of reach.There has always been disparity in health care, but that was aggravated when President Franklin Roosevelt instituted wage caps during World War II. Companies who wanted to compete for quality workers could no longer offer more money so they offered "benefits." Like health insurance. read more [...]
The northern lights as one would expect and see them if they were in the frozen reaches of Canada, Scandanavia, or Russia, maybe and maybe not. However, a glow in the sky unlike anything most of us will see in the 48 contiguous United States of America was visible last night, and may be visible again tonight, and Sunday night. For the first time since 2003 a G5 geomagnetic storm is predicted to hit us. There have been a series of solar flares emitted in the correct direction and timing for the charged particles released to interact with Earths geomagnetic [...]
The Tennessee Valley Authority couldn't be done today. When it was done, it transformed an area mired in poverty. With affordable electricity, they had water. With water, they could farm. With farming, food became affordable. In a generation, the area was transformed and soon had libraries, schools, and much better quality of life.Environmentalists need to be needed, it is how they feed their $3 billion-per-year appetite, and so TVA could never happen today. Environmental lawyers are so obstructionist and culturally corrosive, TVA can't even replace a coal plant without a lawsuit.A coal plant. When activists claim they care about climate change.read [...]
After Chris Wild took over the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a UN-funded body in France that looks for statistical links between food/chemicals and cancer, they made a switch in their policies regarding participation; an epidemiologist who had ever consulted for industry could no longer vote on what to label a carcinogen.Even though it was hypocritical - epidemiologists working for trial lawyers or environmental groups were recruited - few inside IARC objected. Nor did anyone think they might. Environmental groups have manufactured an ethical halo so well that even their lawyers look like better people than other lawyers. [...]
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have become buzzwords often debated within the United States, sometimes controversially perceived as a redistribution of opportunities. However, in a global context—such as in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) project, led by the European Space Agency and NASA—DEI adopts a unique significance. Here, it is about creating a welcoming and safe environment for all qualified researchers from across the globe.read more [...]
If you are a vegan and opt your child out of a nornal diet, they are going to suffer from malnutrition and you may end up in jail.Dr. Paul Saladino, on the other end is just as dangerous, because he claims science doesn't exist so infants should be eating honey, raw milk and even meat.read more [...]
For around 15 years, I have joked 'that's why they got sold for a dollar' when nonsense got published in Scientific American and my statement was both funny and factually correct.They've been in decline for a while, their only hope for survival lay in what The Atlantic and Washington Post also got - a rich progressive (well, 'progressive' when it comes to other people paying taxes while they hide money offshore) who wants to say they own it as a vanity project. They have had that, thanks to the Holtzbrinck family of Germany, since 1986.read more [...]
Last week I was in Amsterdam, where I attended the first European AI for Fundamental Physics conference (EUCAIF). Unfortunately I could not properly follow the works there, as in the midst of it I got grounded by a very nasty bronchial bug. Then over the weekend I was able to drag myself back home, and today, still struggling with the after-effects, am traveling to Rome for another relevant event.read more [...]
President Biden was thrilled when Tesla announced it was creating a Tesla Supercharger network, because electric cars were not legitimate until they stopped needing government hand-outs, and few wanted electric cars until they were sure they could charge them on trips.Which no company wanted to do because there were no government handouts. Tesla believed it could solve the problem, and President Biden was going to add to an alarming federal deficit to give them handouts, but the problems seem insurmountable, because Tesla pulled out.read more [...]
As announced a few years ago and stated every few months in preparation, EPA has created a timeline for a ban of non-industrial uses of methylene chloride. It was used in the past as a paint stripper but could also be found in things like automotive cleaners and various other consumer products. In home use, acute deaths did occur but only after shocking violations of common sense and boldly stated safety precautions. If you used it to strip a bathtub in a closed room, well, you need to learn to read. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has long had [...]
Despite Vermont's Agricultural Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations using science, flatly stating there was no basis for a ban on a class of safe pesticides called neonicotinoids, and agreement by Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the Vermont Senate just passed House Bill H706, which will ban such insecticides despite decades of safe use.read more [...]
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the science community was right to openly wonder about the Wuhan labs next to the wet market where the disease took the world by storm. A Chinese government researcher had been arrested and found guilty of selling lab animals and everyone with any experience knew that a biosafety rating in America and in China were much different levels even if a the communist government slapped any number they wanted on there.read more [...]
Evolutionary psychology, the discipline that claimed we're being manipulated by flowers and evolved to like the appearance of black men, also made the bold assertion that the income of your parents during pregnancy made you...gay?read more [...]
California Democrats know to strike when the anti-science iron is hot, so hot on the heels of banning red dye No. 3, using nothing but the same suspect epidemiology that turned the state into a laughing stock with Prop 65 'may cause cancer' warnings on 65,000 products, they are going after red dye 40.Think of all the lives being saved by all those bans. There must have been corpses lining the streets!read more [...]
With a porous southern border, street fentanyl continues to enter the United States and be purchased by recreational drug users, all while the U.S. government continues to treat suffering cancer patients like criminals when it comes to legitimate pain medication access. It isn't much better in Canada, according to a new study.read more [...]
A year ago, corporate media promoted the provocative claim that dinosaurs like Tyrannorsaurus rex had so many neurons they had to be substantially more intelligent than assumed, since these high neuron counts could directly inform on intelligence, metabolism and life history.They even added that T. rex was monkey-like in some of its habits and may even have used cultural transmission of knowledge as tools. Corporate media sells ads so they love such 'scientists are baffled by' narratives and a scenario where dinosaurs could be ruling on other planets. Other scientists were instead baffled that it got by peer-review.read more [...]
