Scientists develop an economical atomic battery with power increased by 10 times

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“the development will make it possible to increase the specific power by an order of magnitude”

Another small scale betavoltaic or atomic battery.  Atomic batteries would be microscale power generation.  

A novel betavoltaic technology with dyes for better energy production

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“So far, our dye-sensitized betavoltaic cell is the first to apply dye to achieve high radiation-to-current conversion efficiency.”

A betavoltaic cell converts beta radiation (electrons) from a radioisotope source into electricity.  The technology has been around for a while.  A betavoltaic cell approximately one cubic inch in size was used to power pacemakers during the 1970s.  The problem with the technology has been low...

Science Goes Woke

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“As if academics were not wasting enough time on paperwork, now they face the added burden of proving their progressive bona fides in order to win...”

Funding agencies, organizations, and institutions are imposing their politically 'woke' biases onto the scientific community.  The competition for grant funding works much like natural selection:  those with a competitive edge in grant funding become dominant.   The conduct of science is...

Psaki says Harris faces more criticism because she is a woman and woman of color

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“She is the first African American woman, woman of color, Indian American woman to serve in this job. Woman. I mean, so many firsts, right?”

When things look bad, play the Race Card.  Using race and gender to push political buttons has a name; it's called 'tokenism'.  'Tokenism' is symptomatic of systemic racism.  By using race, ethnicity, and gender to check off the boxes on a political score card, the Biden administration has...

Does modern cosmology prove the existence of God?

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“The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It's got to be God.”

Science hubris is being presented as science literacy.  The simple fact is our physics does not work without spacetime.  Our physics always resolves to infinity because spacetime is prerequisite for our physics to work.  The constraint of spacetime means our physics cannot describe, explain,...

Ford's Latest Electric Truck is…a 1978 F-100?

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“That future's going to be filled with some surprising e-sleepers.”

Gee, an electric truck that actually looks like a truck.  Ford isn't bringing back the F-100 of the 1970s.  This is really an aftermarket conversion kit being offered by Ford.

Tax strategy of the rich, backdoor Roth survives in latest Democrat plan

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“Until we actually have a law, we can't be sure what's going to be in it”

Way to stick it to the rich.  Let's go, Brandon! Don't be surprised if a repeal of the limit on SALT deductions is buried in Build Back Better, too.  It's one thing to not bite the hand that feeds you but kissing their backside seems a bit much.

'They're probably going to put us back in power': GOP basks in Dem discord

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“There's an old saying: ‘When your enemy is trying to commit suicide, never get between him and the gun.’”

So?  It's still a circus no matter if the clown car is red or blue. According to Gallup polling 29 pct of voters identify as Republican, 29 pct of voters identify as Democrat, and 41 pct of voters don't give a crap.    Neither party has enough support any longer to do more than run a third rate...

Cheer Up, Liberals. You Have the America You Wanted.

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“In all these ways and more, America in 2021 is the country that liberals in the Bush era wished they lived in: more liberal and permissive across...”

Yes, we're living the liberal's vision for America.  There's no denying that the United States is more diverse, less inhibited, more permissive, more socially aware and connected, less parochial, and more focused on humanist hegemony than the country was a mere 20 years ago. So, why the liberal...

Biden claims the US is 'not at war,' despite combat deployments to Iraq and Syria, and counter-terror missions in Africa

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“Biden's claims that the US is no longer war is belied by continued American deployments to the Middle East and counter-terrorism missions in Africa.”

Joe Biden definitely wants to turn the page on Afghanistan.  But Biden's claim that United States is not at war is too nuanced to be honest.  Biden doesn't want us to read the footnotes at the bottom of that page.  We still have as many troops deployed to Iraq as we had in Afghanistan.  And the...