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America's Pernicious Rural Myth: An Interview with Steven Conn

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • one week ago

We had a pretty good conversation a couple days ago about pickups. It was a minor epiphany for me to realize that oversized, chrome-wheeled pickups with pristine load-beds are not simply...

How I Became Particle Physicists’ Enemy #1

By: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • one week ago

They Didn't Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something…Else

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 2 weeks ago

The "de-extinction" of dire-wolves was all over the Internet a few days ago. Something about the story set my BS-meter vibrating... but clearly Colossal Biosciences had done something . So I...

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline

Via: hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 12 Comments • 2 weeks ago

The Return of the Great American Stomachache

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 19 Comments • 2 weeks ago

Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 2 weeks ago

Ya gotta give these people credit! Not only are they wreaking havoc, but they're raking in a ton of money at the same time! The only down side is that ordinary people will die, but who...

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 3 weeks ago

America is known all around the world for the worst health-care of any developed nation. So let's make it worse! There are links in the seed.

Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research

Via: hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 28 Comments • 3 weeks ago

While snorkeling in the Florida Keys, a marine biologist found an octopus in a discarded beer bottle

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 4 weeks ago

Is this "news"? Is it something that merits an article in a national media outlet? YES!!! There are links in the seed.

18 Things You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do

Via: krishna • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • one month ago

Photo credit: Apple This article list 18 items in all, but I've only posted the first ten-- to see all 18 go to the original article. What useful features of the iPhone have you discovered?

Inside the beef industry's secret plan to block climate action

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 13 Comments • one month ago

Gosh! Amazing! A Big Business sector misled the public, in order to make more money! But let's not try to regulate these things. Let's trust them to behave... There are links in...

It has been five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.

By: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 28 Comments • one month ago

Remember bleach injections? That guy is running the country now. What could possibly go wrong? The Wells-Wallace piece is exceptional in breadth and depth. (I'm not normally a fan.)...

Kids died before vaccines. It could happen again

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 2 months ago

One child in five died . Hey! Let's go back to the good old days! My sister spent a year in an iron lung when she was a little girl. Polio. There's a vaccine for that, now. There...

The LARGEST Electric Vehicle In The World?!

By: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 2 months ago

OK... The obvious question: Why is this happening in Tasmania??? Kinda off the beaten path... We know why it's not happening in America. America no longer does cutting-edge tech.

Private spacecraft Blue Ghost makes successful upright moon landing | The moon | The Guardian

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 2 months ago

This is a spectacular success, but since President Musk has a monopoly on all things above the atmosphere, it's kinda pointless.

'The flying bum': can a UK firm making huge airships finally get off the ground? | Aerospace industry | The Guardian

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 2 months ago

This thing has been around for a decade, so I suspect it's mainly vaporware. At the same time, there's something very seductive about lighter-than-air machines...

Making Microbes Great Again

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 23 Comments • 2 months ago

The anti-vax movement is perhaps the most pertinent proof of MAGA's insanity. The facts are clear: vaccines save lives. But vaccines are science, and for MAGA science is just a bunch of...

Daaayum that robot can move

By: hal-a-lujah • Health, Science & Technology • 57 Comments • 3 months ago

The shocking truth behind China’s EV dominance and America’s uphill battle

By: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 33 Comments • 5 months ago

This is from Autoblog , a very standard gearhead site. Not an EV site. Sam Evans isn't alone in seeing what's happening in the world.

The IEA says China has hit peak oil - Oil markets face enormous glut

By: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 8 Comments • 5 months ago

America's per capita economy is bigger than China's, but since China has four times America's population, its economy is much the larger. When China sneezes, the whole world catches a...

Nobel Prize in medicine honors two Americans for discovery of microRNA

Via: hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 7 months ago

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

Via: dig • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 7 months ago

A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure

Via: hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 9 months ago

Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed to Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot.

Via: hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 14 Comments • 11 months ago

Genetics of aging uncovered with rare disease discovery

Via: hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 11 months ago

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