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On August 8th 2020, Melissa Berger and I embarked on another of our trips into the wilderness of the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. This video is Day 1 of that 7-day trip, taking us from Elkhart Park Trailhead 14-1/2 miles to...
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On Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 our party of 5 departed Trail Lakes Trailhead outside of Dubois, WY for 8-days in the wilderness. We hiked 80 miles, visited many of the crown jewels of the “Winds”, and explored some of its most inaccessible places. Only 4 of the 8 days were spent on-trail, with the balance spent freelancing and route-finding through incredibly rugged and isolated stretches of wilderness where we went days without seeing another human being. We crossed four significant passes, reached 12,200 ft. above sea level twice, transited Knifepoint glacier at 11.500 ft., and crossed more streams, creeks, rivers, snow-fields, rock-fields and marshes than we can count. On our final day we witnessed the total solar eclipse from within the area of totality.
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Starting in 2001 I lived in Wyoming for 3 years. Since then we have travelled back and forth...
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Keith Lamparter and Melissa Berger backpack into the Wind River Range of Wyoming for a 7-day, 40-mile hike into the wilderness crossing the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains twice, traversing two wilderness areas, Bridger and Popo-Agie, and visited two significant glaciers at Washakie and Camels Hump/Lizard Head.
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It's been months since Democrats suffered a devastating defeat at the polls. For all the talk about the party's need for change, few seem actually willing to make the leap. [...]
The University of California system's abandonment of a policy that it pioneered is a turning point in higher education. [...]
You have to figure Elise Stefanik has been getting pretty antsy lately. She announced way back on November 10 - so long ago that DOGE was just an evil glimmer in Elon Musk's eyes - that Donald Trump had offered her the Cabinet-level position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. [...]
NPR CEO Katherine Maher could not, even if she'd tried, have made a stronger implicit case for cutting federal financial support for her organization. [...]
Jon Stewart welcomed NYT columnist Ezra Klein on his "Weekly Show" podcast to stare into the abyss of government regulations that prevented President Biden's "Build Back Better" infrastructure bill from building much of anything at all. Klein is a co-author of the new book, "Abundance," which pitches the idea of a more effective liberalism by bringing attention to the red tape built into Democratic politics. [...]
Vance's consideration of the strike displays quite a bit more nuance than the bomb-first-ask-questions-later wing of the Republican Party. [...]
This week, we saw the first real scandal of President Trump's second term. It came quickly - a mere two months in - but this conforms to the zeitgeist of Trump 2.0. This crowd is doing everything, good and bad, at a dizzying pace. [...]
With Trump back in the White House, the crown prince has new opportunities and faces new pressures. [...]
Over the next few weeks, millions of kids around the country will come home from school, toss their backpacks in a corner, and begin an annual ritual that can be fun, relaxing, stressful, and confusing all at the same time. [...]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had plenty to say since launching his podcast earlier this month with a splash, breaking from Democratic Party orthodoxy and agreeing with MAGA organizer Charlie Kirk that allowing biological males to compete in girls' and women's sports is "deeply unfair." [...]
The window had no curtains, no blinds. Though the back of a big screen TV obscured a portion of the view into the living quarters of the duplex. Passing by I'd often see a young man on a couch, facing the TV, controller in hands, inexplicably wearing a medical mask over his mouth and nose; inexplicably, I say, because he was alone. I'd only ever seen him leave to take the trash out. He'd walk with stiff and jagged gestures, with the unsteadiness of old age though he looked to be in his 40s. [...]
Wednesday on the RCP Podcast, the gang discussed a Senate Judiciary hearing yesterday on the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" and what we've learned about how tech companies suppressed speech during the Biden administration. Can the Senate do anything aside from bringing attention to what happened? [...]
DOGE leader Elon Musk and members of his team talk with FOX News 'Special Report' host Bret Baier about their efforts to identity waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Musk is joined by DOGE members Steve Davis, Joe Gebbia, Aram Moghaddassi, Brad Smith, Anthony Armstrong, Tom Krause and Tyler Hassen. [...]
The legal question here isn't necessarily what the administration is doing; it's how the administration is doing it. [...]
Judge Boasberg blocks Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela's government and acts of sabotage in the U.S. [...]
Former President Joe Biden "has told some Democratic leaders he'll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground," NBC News reported last week. Some prominent party supporters reacted with skepticism while insisting on anonymity, but Jane Kleeb, a new vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, voiced open enthusiasm. [...]
Vice President J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance are slated to make a historic trip to Greenland's northwest coast and visit Pituffik Space Base, where they'll meet our nation's guardians and airmen on base, tour the facility, and discuss the growing importance of Arctic security in American foreign policy. [...]
Some advisers now view the price of the fossil fuel as a crucial anti-inflation tool [...]
Finance industry recruiters are starving critical fields of talent and steering an entire generation into soulless jobs. [...]
US government lawyers pushed Friday for the case of a pro-Palestinian protest leader slated for deportation to be moved to a Louisiana court thought to be sympathetic to President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil -- a prominent face of the protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's war in Gaza -- was arrested and taken to Louisiana earlier this month, sparking protests. Several other foreign student protesters have been similarly targeted. [...]
Marwa fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan because she wanted to study, work, wear jeans and go to the park without a male chaperone. Now she is under lock and key in Costa Rica, along with hundreds of other migrants expelled by the United States to third countries in Central America.Costa Rica is one of three Central American countries, along with Panama and Guatemala, that have agreed to receive migrants from other countries and to detain them until they are sent to their home nations or other host countries. [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologized Friday for failing to defend an Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker who said he was attacked by Israeli settlers.The group, which hosts and awards the Oscars each year, wrote to members after movie stars including Joaquin Phoenix, Penelope Cruz and Richard Gere had slammed its initially muted response to the incident.The Academy "condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world" and its leaders "abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances," said the letter, seen by AFP. [...]
Large crowds took to the streets in the capitals of Iran, Iraq and Yemen on Friday for the annual show of support for Palestinians and denunciation of Israel.Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations were launched in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, which has made support for the Palestinian cause a cornerstone of its foreign policy.The marches, which call for Jerusalem to be returned to the Palestinians, are traditionally held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. [...]
With the jailing of Istanbul's mayor on corruption charges, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has got rid of his most powerful opponent. Now his sights are set on the main opposition CHP, analysts say."When the big fishes are exposed, they won't dare to look their own families in the eye, let alone the nation," the president warned this week, hinting at a fresh legal action targeting the Republican People's Party (CHP). [...]
Turkey intensified its crackdown on anti-government protests on Friday, arresting the lawyer of the jailed Istanbul mayor and targeting more journalists, as the country faces its biggest wave of unrest in more than a decade.Nine days after the arrest and subsequent jailing of Istanbul's popular opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, demonstrators were again out on the streets on Thursday night, despite a growing sense of fear. [...]
Commitments from Abu Dhabi–based asset manager Lunate and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, increased Affinity’s assets by $1.5 billion over a year. [...]
Commitments from Abu Dhabi–based asset manager Lunate and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, increased Affinity’s assets by $1.5 billion over a year. [...]
Commitments from Abu Dhabi–based asset manager Lunate and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, increased Affinity’s assets by $1.5 billion over a year. [...]
Commitments from Abu Dhabi–based asset manager Lunate and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, increased Affinity’s assets by $1.5 billion over a year. [...]
Hezbollah denied involvement in rocket fire targeting Israel as the strikes threaten the already fragile ceasefire between the two. [...]
Hezbollah denied involvement in rocket fire targeting Israel as the strikes threaten the already fragile ceasefire between the two. [...]
Hezbollah denied involvement in rocket fire targeting Israel as the strikes threaten the already fragile ceasefire between the two. [...]
Hezbollah denied involvement in rocket fire targeting Israel as the strikes threaten the already fragile ceasefire between the two. [...]
While some Israeli leaders hope for normalized ties with Lebanon and Syria, others warn that the uncertainty of the current situation could become permanent or deteriorate. [...]
While some Israeli leaders hope for normalized ties with Lebanon and Syria, others warn that the uncertainty of the current situation could become permanent or deteriorate. [...]
While some Israeli leaders hope for normalized ties with Lebanon and Syria, others warn that the uncertainty of the current situation could become permanent or deteriorate. [...]
While some Israeli leaders hope for normalized ties with Lebanon and Syria, others warn that the uncertainty of the current situation could become permanent or deteriorate. [...]
Israel said on Friday it will strike anywhere in Lebanon it sees a threat, after rocket fire prompted it to bomb Beirut for the first time during the fragile four-month-old truce with Hezbollah.Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam described the strike on Beirut's southern suburbs as "a dangerous escalation" and French President Emmanuel Macron called it an "unacceptable" truce violation.The health ministry reported no casualties from the Beirut attack but said Israeli strikes in the south killed five people. [...]
Australia's competition regulator gave the go-ahead Friday for Qatar Airways to launch an alliance with Virgin Australia.The decision clears Qatar Airways to cooperate for five years in an "integrated alliance" with the Australian carrier, in which it will take a 25-percent stake.The pact would double flights between Doha and major Australian airports, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said.The boost in Australia-Middle East flights would create "minimal, if any, public detriment", the authority's commissioner, Anna Brakey, said in a statement. [...]
Scott Winship, Civitas Institute Controlling federal budget deficits is a national imperative that will require reductions in entitlement spending (including Medicaid) and stronger economic [...]
James Glassman, RCM It's hard to keep track of President Trump's on-again, off-again trade policy, but one firm truth is that, by placing tariffs on Mexico and Canada, he risks destroying [...]
Jennifer Sey, New York Post If cheap goods from China become less cheap compared to those made ethically, products from American companies like mine become more viable. [...]
Ana Swanson, New York Times With sweeping auto levies, the president is putting his beliefs about tariffs into practice on the global economy. Economists aren't optimistic. [...]
John Tamny, RCM If the U.S. were ever so foolishly intent on shrinking inequality, doing so would be easy: abolish usage of cars, planes, computers, smartphones and the internet. Presto, [...]
Mario Loyola, The Heritage Foundation "We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country," said President Donald Trump recently, and he's not wrong. But tariffs [...]
Market Minder, Fisher Investments Is today's stagflation chatter reason for investors to worry? [...]
Jon Decker, RealClearMarkets With one foot out the door, the Biden administration's CFPB announced a new rule to cap overdraft fees that banks charge [...]
Carol Roth, Fox News Tesla's head honcho, Elon Musk, has gone from leftist darling to persona non grata in an instant thanks to his connections with the Trump administration. [...]
Mike Sharrow, RealClearMarkets Leadership is a continuous journey—one where stress and guilt often feel like constant companions. A few [...]
Rachel Cohen, Vox Working full time and homeless in America. [...]
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 [...]
Some ambitious shots have become part of cinematic history. Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil begins with a lengthy tracking shot that establishes the film’s setting, characters and conflict. Decades later, Robert Altman opened The Player with a long tracking shot as an homage of sorts to Welles’s film, complete with a reference to it in […] The post There’s a Reason More TV Shows and Movies Are Using Long Takes appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When it comes to engines with history, the Hemi V8 stands especially tall, powering a variety of high-performance vehicles for over seven decades. At a time when the idea of what constitutes a muscle car is in flux, it isn’t always clear what place a classic engine would have in the 2020s. As it turns […] The post Dodge Is Reportedly Bringing the Hemi V8 Back to the Charger appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Is it wise to put your money in a whisk(e)y cask with an eye towards investing it for the future? There’s been a lot written about this very subject — but there’s one big thing that any would-be investors should be sure to know from the outset. That’s that the cask you’re investing in actually […] The post A New Investment Scam Targets UK Whiskey Enthusiasts appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
At a time when social media is oversaturated with self-appointed fitness influencers, it’s hard to know who’s the real deal. We’d suggest following Korey Rowe. The founder of the KR Method, a workout protocol that blends strength training and mobility exercises, Rowe recently brought his expertise to Centr, the fitness app founded by Chris Hemsworth. […] The post The Kit: What Korey Rowe Uses to Train, Fuel and Recover appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the forest. The only noises I hear are kingfishers trilling, leaves rustling as capuchins race across the treetops and the distant bellowing of a hippo. But […] The post Searching for Endangered Forest Elephants in the Republic of Congo appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Each week, our inbox runneth over with news of gear, apparel and tech releases from around the world. In this feature, we’ll parse through the best of it. Today: A new colorful holiday collection from Rimowa drops, a collab betewen A$AP Rocky and Puma is released into the world and Woodford Reserve releases their Kentucky […] The post Products of the Week: Pumas, Derby Bourbon and Rimowa Suitcases appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
On Running dropped the “Running” and became On a few years ago — it’s cleaner — in a prudent play to become an open-ended performance label. It made sense: the Swiss brand counted Roger Federer as one of its early investors, and leveraged the legend’s influence to leapfrog into the tennis sector. The logo’s been […] The post My New Favorite Running Jacket Is a Tennis Jacket appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
People like yourself might not have all day to online shop…which is why we’re committed to doing it for you every week. No need to thank us or anything. From a lightweight Levi’s coat to groovy sunglasses from Persol, these are the best deals we’ve found on the internet this week. The Best Deals on […] The post From Harrington Jackets to Persols: The Best Deals on the Internet This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Here at InsideHook, we talk about transitional outerwear a lot. You might even say we’re obsessed with it. And for good reason (at least, we think so). The right layer is the difference between a comfortable day and a chilly one, yes, but moreso, an opportunity to add a whole new dimension of color, texture […] The post Let Paul Stuart Sort Out Your Suede This Spring appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Although I was a vegetarian for seven formative years, from age 17 to 24, I knew more about Taco Bell’s vegetarian menu than I did about macronutrients. When I decided to try meat again, I reverted to my childhood meal of choice, a salami sandwich with yellow mustard. Sure, I had an immediate stomachache, but […] The post The Dietary Change That Brought My Energy Back appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
I love cooking and dining out pretty equally. The former is meditative and fun, while the latter is a joy, especially when the restaurant is at the top of its game, be it a fine dining establishment or just a simple neighborhood spot doing it well. But most of the time, you won’t find me […] The post Brunch Is Bullshit. Can Someone Please Just Give Me the Lunch Menu? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Want to know what the future holds? You need to meet the people building it. In our series Who’s Next, we profile rising stars of culture, tech, style, wellness and beyond. When Jesse Garcia first signed on to play Richard Montañez, the real-life janitor-turned-Frito-Lay executive who dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, in 2023’s Flamin’ Hot, […] The post From Disney Dad to Christopher Nolan Collaborator, Jesse Garcia’s Game for It All appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
If you’re looking at cross-training as a way to get fit, it’s not hard to see the appeal of rowing, which covers a lot of fitness bases. We’ve had a lot of good things to say about the rowing machines made by Hydrow over the years, and this week the company announced a new partnership […] The post Soho House Announces Hydrow Partnership appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When did we become so defined by our assigned generation? Did it start when Gen X joined the Baby Boomers in calling the grown Millennial generation a bunch of soft participation trophy collectors? Or maybe it was when Gen Z found a succinct way to clap back: “OK boomer.” Actually, it was probably when Millennials […] The post The Novel That Can Bridge the Gap Between Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
First off, no, I didn’t get a chance to try The 51 by The Glenrothes, a just-released 51-year-old whisky from the Speyside estate. But I did get to drink through the rest of the distillery’s range and see The 51 in person. And that packaging alone shatters any expectations you may have about luxury whisky bottlings. […] The post This Might Be the Most Unique Packaging Ever for a Whisky appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Is there anything better than coming home from a long day of work and falling into a bed with fresh linen sheets? Go ahead, try and name something. Oh, you can’t? Thought not. Now let’s talk about getting you some marked-down linen to make that a reality. Bedding and home goods company Parachute (who we’ve […] The post The Linen Sheets of Your Dreams Are 30% Off at Parachute appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sex toy retailer Lovehoney is currently taking up to 70% off during one of its biggest sales of the year. Oftentimes, when large sexual wellness sites host sales, they’ll exclude top products from discounts, so you’re left shopping for less desirable items. This is not to say those items are total garbage, but when it […] The post Lovehoney’s Massive Sale Is the Perfect Time to Beef Up Your BDSM Game appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sales rule. But a secret sale on James Bond’s favorite polo? That’s a whole other level of sick. British label Sunspel is best known for its premium basics in luxe materials — the brand routinely dabbles in luxe cotton, merino and cashmere — and supplying 007, and, if you’re smart, you, too. The brand is throwing […] The post There’s a Secret Sunspel Sale Happening. Here’s What to Buy. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There are few partnerships more consistent than Uniqlo U, the ongoing seasonal collaboration between the Japanese label and Lemaire designers Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran. Enough so that the biannual drop has become something of a holiday for menswear enthusiasts — a routine opportunity to grab expertly designed staples that are both subtle and trendy […] The post Uniqlo U Is Oversized, Affordable Menswear at Its Best appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
What’s in a morning routine? It looks different for everyone, but it probably starts at a reasonable hour and involves a lot of sensible steps. Then there’s this guy, Ashton Hall, an online fitness coach and internet personality with more than 13 million followers on Instagram and TikTok combined. His morning routine is going viral […] The post Think You Have an Intense Morning Routine? Think Again. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
William J. Luti, RealClearHistory "The bombers kept coming," the late Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale recounted in his extraordinary 1984 memoir In Love and War, "and we kept cheering." [...]
Peter Kramer, Historytoday The popularity of the sci-fi epic Star Wars proved timely for Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative. [...]
Becky Little, HISTORY The constitutional framers may have viewed indigenous people of the Iroquois Confederacy as inferior, but that didn't stop them from admiring their federalist [...]
Vittorio Bufacchi, The Conversation The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the US. [...]
David Beito, RealClearHistory Margaret Brennan, the moderator of Face the Nation, recently stated matter-of-factly that the Nazis had "weaponized free speech" to bring [...]
Joshua J. Mark, World History Encyclopedia The 1811 German Coast Uprising (8-11 January 1811) was the largest slave revolt in US history involving between 300-500 enslaved and free Blacks in [...]
Clay Risen, Politico A scrappy law firm decided to represent federal workers accused of disloyalty and survived to become a legal behemoth. [...]
John Hanna, Military.com Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give control of covert activities to the State [...]
Hidetaka Hirota, Time In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories. [...]
Julian Humphrys, HistoryExtra The Second World War saw one of the most epic tank battles in history, as the Germans and the Soviets clashed near Kursk. Julian Humphrys tells the [...]
Robert Heege, Warfare History Network The Medieval Catapult was one of the most fearsome middle age weapons ever produced. Read on to find out why. [...]
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 [...]
What are sustainable cities, and can we build them? I put my Institute Fellows’ decades of experience together with the content of this fine conference, and conclude: (1) A sustainable city will attend equally to innovation, to human opportunity and dignity, and to the Earth. (2) Cities are not yet doing that. (3) There are obstacles.read more [...]
When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS, and too many products to count.Utah wants to be the California of the right-wing; ban things because it matches the politics of their voters and science will be marginalized.(1)read more [...]
In 1961, less than one per cent of Canadians identified as having no religion. In 2021, 43 per cent of those between 15 and 35 considered themselves religiously unaffiliated. Organized religion — and especially Christianity — is in decline. Secularization is advancing apace. Most sociologists of religion agree on this. What they disagree about, however, is why. read more [...]
It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose 78 percent of fruit, 54 percent of vegetables, and 32 percent of cereal crops. Most farmers want to optimize razor-thin margins and protect their biggest asset, land, so they are cautious about spraying too much, but the organic process leads to startling amounts of nitrogen runoff into rivers and ground water. A study claims 31 percent of agricultural soils around the world were at high risk from pesticide pollution while the old ways of German farmers recently showed they were exposing [...]
Greenpeace is facing bankruptcy after a $667,000,000 judgment. For the first time ever, the number of U.S. federal employees declined. Democrats have begun to consider they might be wrongly defending terrorists. They even became pro-vaccine for the first time this century. The best thing President Donald Trump may have done for science and political sanity is to switch from Democrat to Republican and bring Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk along with him. It forced Democrats, who are nearly 90% of career government employees, to suddenly defend things they had opposed for decades.(1)Like nuclear energy. Which means we could usher in [...]
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 [...]
