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Category: Science
Anniversary Issue: the Crichton CalTech Michelin Lecture
It is not strictly the 20th anniversary of this repeatedly-quoted lecture – that would have been the 17th of January, but I am not a strict by-the-calendar guy. I post…
Claim: We’ve Pumped So much Groundwater that We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin
The shifting of mass and consequent sea level rise due to groundwater withdrawal has caused the Earth’s rotational pole to wander nearly a meter in two decades
Masters of Acclimation: Octopuses Adjust to Cold by Editing their RNA
The idea the environment can influence that genetic information, as we’ve shown in cephalopods, is a new concept.
The genetics of temperature adaptation: how does life thrive in extreme conditions?
Interestingly, the researchers found that thermotolerant organisms had smaller genomes and a higher fraction of core genome.
32-year Reuters veteran reporter comes clean on ‘climate change’: ‘I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong’
The science wasn’t even close to being proven, and I had great difficulty finding anyone to say the link between excessive human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) and a changing climate was…
A Hidden Universe of Uncertainty
Even highly skilled scientists motivated to come to accurate results varied tremendously in what they found when provided with the same data and hypothesis to test.
New Evidence Shows Water Separates into Two Different Liquids at Low Temperatures
Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Birmingham and Sapienza Università di Roma.
The Many-Analysts Approach
“Why do we have so many wildly varying answers to so many of the important science questions of our day? Not only varying, but often directly contradictory.”
Peer Review Plus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A Modest Proposal For Improving Peer Review Abstract. A proposal is made for the design of a specific type of post-publication peer review. Background In…
The physics of fire ant rafts could help engineers design swarming robots
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up…
Three Critical Factors in the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Dr. Foster and his team were able to directly link their extinction to the following climate changes: declining oxygen levels in the water, rising water temperatures, and most likely also…
Most Published Studies Exaggerated the Effects of Ocean Acidification – and Covid, Etc.
However, a problem with laboratory experiments is that they cannot capture the complexities of the real world, not even the tremendous natural variability in ocean pH – which is a…
Global Water Cycle
The global oceans are receiving less sunlight while the land surface is receiving more as the precession cycle progresses for the next 12,000 years. The water cycle is in gradual…
Bronze Age City Destroyed by Bolide
Guest “They nailed this one” by David Middleton Scientific archaeology is essentially forensic history. It is an interdisciplinary effort, involving multiple disciplines, often including: archaeology, geology, geophysics, physical geography, geochemistry,…
Science Journal Demands “Hate Crime” Laws to Shield Scientists from Public Criticism
Could criticism of government science be outlawed? A science journal paper appears to have equated Republican attempts to fire Dr. Fauci with physical intimidation and NAZI oppression of science, and…
Time To Assume That Health Research Is Fraudulent Until Proven Otherwise?
Research fraud is often viewed as a problem of “bad apples,” but Barbara K Redman, who spoke at the webinar insists that it is not a problem of bad apples…
Science, Philosophy and Politics
By Andy May Greg Weiner has written a great essay in Law & Liberty, entitled: “Why We cannot Just ‘Follow the Science.‘” His point is that scientists and science are…
Death spiral of American academia
This climate is eroding free speech, with overt censorship by rejecting publication of results with real (or simply apparent) connection to right-of-center policies, as well as tremendous self- censorship both…
Follow the science, at least on nutrition
Whether it’s nutrition, Covid or climate change, the last thing we need is more sloppy politicized science, and more policies, laws and regulations dictated by “woke” or “cancel culture” agendas…
Irreproducible science and US government regulation
The EPA issues an extraordinary number of regulations, which affect every area of the economy and constrict everyday freedoms. Extensive regulatory schemes can amount to a competitive advantage for large…
Ocean Acidification Effects Research in Doubt
“Munday’s and Dixson’s data on chemical signal preference had a “0 out of 10,000” chance of being real. They left it to the reader to decide what to think about…
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