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Wealthy elites giving out $500 solar-powered juice presses are the problem with modern virtue-signaling masquerading as philanthropy. Nathan Str…
A little over a week ago, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced ten advances in mathematics and computer science made with their as-y…
If you think you are in a totalitarian regime because the US President federalized National Guard troops, you may need to get a little more inte…
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 p…
Twenty years ago today I got access for the first time to the interface that allowed me to publish blog posts for the Quantum Diaries web site,…
It was Christmas Eve, 1858 when “people who in the streets, on pathways and in the fields saw a magnificent ball of fire appear, which shone wit…
Trial lawyers suing over a popular weedkiller saw six words they never want to read in a court document approving a motion to dismiss a study th…
Wealthy countries with natural 'breadbaskets' - places where it is easy to grow food - have so much abundance they can put special labels like '…
2023 is over and I am looking back at my achievements and failures, to take stock and try to learn something from the matter. This blog looks li…
It's that time of year when activists, academics, and social media mavens hoping for media coverage begin to promote worry about Thanksgiving. S…
A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to different…
Are universities and medical schools racist? They must be if a Supreme Court decision based on ending discrimination against Asians means fewer…
Unlike US environmentalists, Belgian greens didn't flip and suddenly regard hydropower as a bad thing, they regard it as a viable part of their…
Once upon a time, terms like 'primate' and 'Neanderthal' were used as joke insults, but they are both entirely true, and the latter even more so…
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has been overturned, which means that the Supreme Court ruled that the right to an abortion is not federally prote…
One of the most important examples of early art in Europe, a 11 cm high figurine colloquially dubbed a 'Venus' and found in Willendorf, Austria,…
Check out your birth certificate and surely you’ll see a designation for sex. When you were born, a doctor or clinician assigned you the “male”…
Due to unanswered questions into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, both the U.S. government and scientists have called for a deeper exami…