Science Blogs (316)

White Shark...I read an interesting story about the capture of a 17 foot female white shark that's estimated more than 50 years old. Caught off the coast of Nova Sc...

Signature [ 7Tag.} Hebrew home school helper. Identity politics. What the { Strong } dictionary says about the "Messiah." Edt. note....A controversy in this rega...

Summer 2.0The last week or so here, we have been having a 2nd summer. Night temp staying in the 20s where normally we would be seeing frost. In eastern North Am...

Fresno [ maple ave...tag..} A A..) atheist Astrophysics... ......a [ metal ] $pell.... 10. Nothing else matters./ Metallica - 10. ( 0 > M..../ Ibid. ------- ...0......

For the first time in history....Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate. That shows how important this election is. Well, we KNOW it couldn't be a person, who n...

Oh Venus !Named after a goddess of beauty, Venus is our closest neighbor in the solar system and thanks to reflected sunlight, one of the brightest points of li...

Deceptive mind [ 8Tag.} the Sciences / s l e e p. ..distance over Time./ dream theater Jet Lag..../ simple plan. 01. Meta Cognition. 6..our [ constructed ] reali...

We humans do it all the time...negativity...even in Medicine......who goes to the auto mechanic, inquiring about what's RIGHT in the car? It's everywhere, often justified, in trying to improve the world. As when...

President Trump's brilliant epidemiological call to open schools soon..........I'm checking on where he obtained his MD-PhD. Twin doctorates, but who's counting? I do digress. So, your fat little illiterate GNOMOID dwarf...

climate changesHi all So slowly but surely I believe in the climate changes not a drop of rain for about 3 weeks and between 30 and 38 degrees Celsius unusual for m...

physics political humor(with apologies to Heisenberg) I am suggesting there exists a Trump uncertainty principle that states Trump's political positions and their destructiv...

Antibodies......No, in this blog, I don't mean CS scammers. God bless their hearts. Also called immune globulin's, the humoural adaptive immune system, and other...

Health foods? Macrobiotics? Micronutrients? Pickle craving when.......there's a little something in the old naughty hottie oven? Might even be a nice topic for some hottie grad student working on that PhD, at the pres...

Once in a lifetime Comet viewingEager sky watchers are turning to the heavens as Comet NEOWISE, one of the brightest comets in a generation, starts climbing ever higher among the eve...

Investing in the FutureWe need stop thinking about maximizing the next quarterly dividend and massive tax cuts and start investing in our future.

Thiiking out of the BoxTis a pity science and scientists are considered a poor investment, because there are a lot of good ideas happening out there every day.

Dark energy-dark matter......Half way through my second go around on Prof. Sean Carroll's DVD from the Great Courses on the topic. Pretty mind blowing. Only getting a dilettant...

Apogee... the Ring of FireOn Sunday, June 21, the annular solar eclipse will be visible. Unfortunately, it will be visible in Pakistan, India, China and parts of Africa with a...

2 things of curiosity1. More so an observation. Art and beauty are not logical. To answer a question such as: Why did they put so much time, or effort, or money into...

Researchers withdraw their findings,that HC can increase mortality, and heart issues, in the treatment of Covid -19. British Medical Journal embarrassed, again. As was the Lancet for tou...

U F O [ .2..tag.) unlisted Fed.Officer. ... O5. Train of thought / dream theater ...3...Freight train / Jackson..) ball point radio.) O2.. locomotive breath...

Space X1 hour 48 minutes to lift off...

disinfect the body....possible?Is it possible that Trump was hinting about something he might know, but it is a hidden technology/medicine? or Is it that he was really talki...

The most recent 500 year flood---and statistical models.Hydrologists, climatologists, and epidemiologists, present company included, push them on us all. Sure they have their places, and there's the saying,...

Very Exciting news - 4 Step plan for elimination of the virusAll hail our simpleton. I mean "so-called" president conman.

Underground Fresno { 2..."to make something with a lot of money is easy. But to make something out of nothing - now that is really sum thing.." - Baldassare Forestiere...

fresno [ underground garden...tag.) ..city Limit / the radio dept. The bulldozer song / new sky kids ... dirt / Alice in chains ..Final Separation / bulldozer Midtown Tunne...

Thick as a brick [ J TullTAG. ) ..for those about to rock / ac/ DC ...... ..we salute you.. ...start me UP / rolling Stones Family affair / sly & family stone ... ano...

Canary in a coal mine...I've used that phrase often and tonight hpylady_ suggested it on Jim's blog about virus being carried on tiny particles found in air pollution. The...

New report out of Harvard indicates that social distancing may be necessary until 2022 if no vaccineToday from CNN; (CNN)This may be the new normal for quite a while. The US may have to endure social distancing measures -- such as stay-at-ho...

Small Trial indicates that hydroxyquinone is ineffective against Covid-19From US edition of The Conversation (French science publication) ; A small trial finds that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating co...

Ongoing public health stuff.Having once more deftly managed my usual pathetic detractors, and gently further bonded with the man crush fellows, it's back again to shameless showi...

More boring epidemiology.So I try to introduce tidbits of other things into each lecture. Here, I relate how my grieving is lessened by the dear hearts of the young ladies in...