Last Viewed Science Blogs (319)

22 year old Joe DiMeo survived a car accident but his face and hands were severely burned. Doctors at NYU Langone Health in New York successfully performed a face and double hand transplant in August 2020 and so far there are no signs of rejection.
The surgery lasted more than 20 hours and he must remain on medicine for life for his body to avoid rejecting the transplants.

Note, the video is graphic so you may want to avoid watching if you get queasy with things like this.




Yahoo! picked up the story this morning:

On Thursday morning, the 2nd of February, Punxsutawney Phil will declare an early spring or six more weeks of winter depending on the visibility of his shadow.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but the weather in South Florida was in the 80's with lots of sunshine and warm winds.



Wanna see it live?
This link should become active at 6am:

that HC can increase mortality, and heart issues, in the treatment of Covid -19. British Medical Journal embarrassed, again. As was the Lancet for touting an association between vaccinations and Autism, based merely of an anecdotal case series of 8 pediatric patients. Any lessons here? There are quite a few for fair minded folks to learn from.
For starters, detecting and characterizing valid relationships between illness and other factors in free living human populations, is tricky business. Policy from science rests on much more than research outcomes, however seemingly robust. Less so if results are weak, or inconsistent.
Just as important, we must be ever vigilant of how politics can influence science. The Universities and research labs are largely staffed and administered by folks of one political view. Just as those of big Pharma, perhaps in other profit oriented biased directions.
And relying reflexively on clearly biased media resources, such as the NYT, or Washington Post, for scientific information, is fraught with danger of being in error. Reporting/journalism often has become political activism, leading to similar invalid information. Fortunately, we now have much better understanding of how this goes, with the clear existence of Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. It goes like this. One reads a story on some biased outlet. Instantly, in a rush to support ones side, and to feel smug and clever, without reflection, the typing/posting starts. It's all made much worse when the sufferers of the Syndromes have little, and often none, of the needed education for supporting such often biased assertions. Teaching in HS, and a little time working as a lab assistant, or realtor, etc., are honorable gigs, but inadequate to the task.
Finally, RED MAN BAD, is the deep syndromic emotion. But RM not always wrong, is often the truth..

The seafloor beneath floating ice shelves accounts roughly a third of the Antarctic’s 5 million km2 of continental shelf. Prior to this study, our knowledge of these habitats and the life they support was restricted to what has been observed from eight boreholes drilled for geological and glaciological studies. The established theory of sub-ice shelf biogeography is that both functional and taxonomic diversities decrease along a nutrient gradient with distance from the ice shelf front, resulting in a depauperate fauna, dominated by mobile scavengers and predators toward the grounding line. Mobile macro-benthic life and mega-benthic life have been observed as far as 700 km under an ice shelf. New observations from two boreholes in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf challenge the idea that sessile organisms reduce in prevalence the further under the ice you go. The discovery of an established community consisting of only sessile, probably filter feeding, organisms (sponges and other taxa) on a boulder 260 km from the ice front raises significant questions, especially when the local currents suggest that this community is somewhere between 625 km and 1500 km in the direction of water flow from the nearest region of photosynthesis. This new evidence requires us to rethink our ideas with regard to the diversity of community types found under ice shelves, the key factors which control their distribution and their vulnerability to environmental change and ice shelf collapse.

Read more:

No, this blog is not about the last time you got any.
The bodies , that are the subject of this blog, are celestial.
To be exact, Jupiter and Saturn, the great gas bodies in our solar system.
And you think the great gas body was your ex.

Anyway, something is about to happen, that hasn't happened this much in 800 years and you can witness it this month.

Every 2 decades or so, Jupiter and Saturn appear to get quite close in the sky. They actually aren't close. They are 8 times less close to each other as we are to the sun. However, their orbits around our sun align them from our perspective to make them appear close,
as we see them in our night sky. This year they will seem so close, that they will overlap each other. The last time that happened was back in the year of 1226. Perhaps some of you remember it ?
When it happens, it will appear brighter than any star in the sky.

The night you can see it is on December 21st. Better mark it on your calendar. You forgot the last one.

"AI robocalls impersonate President Biden in an apparent attempt to suppress votes in New Hampshire"


I have watched a few videos and in my opinion Biden could in fact be an AI

his disjointed movements and speech patterns,his pauses as he seems to reboot, all classic signs of the puppet masters trying to drive this robot in real life situations

So if this European craft now traveling on top of comet discovered life came from big explosion, what would happened with all religions that we know today...Total Chaos?

Do you like sunny weather or rainy weather sunshine feels great so can rain when you want to cool off on a hot summer day

We are too tiny in this very big universe!