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I founded Science 2.0 and it's been read by 300,000,000 directly with reach and syndication over one billion. I'm also a best-selling author and published in everything from Wall Street Journal to GQ in Korea. New book: Halloween Science 2.0, out now.

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During Thanksgiving, even TV moms make dad jokes.

15.11.2025 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Say goodbye to the penny. The last one is in the mint today.

POTUS is right on this count. It costs 400% more to make than it's worth. A billion dollars here and a billion dollars there and soon we're talking about real money.

12.11.2025 18:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm watching the Steelers game and the announcer just said Los Angeles QB Justin Herbert got taken from behind.

I can't figure out why Europeans think this sport is sexual.

10.11.2025 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EPA Rolls Back TSCA Encroachment By The Biden Administration In 2016, President Obama listened to reason and signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and created a mandatory requirement for EPA to evaluate existing chemicals using transparent methodology and risk-based assessment. No more simplistic epidemiology. Which meant no more junk that had anti-science activists declaring that a weedkiller turned frogs gay or PFAS in pizza boxes created greater risk for obesity than pizza. read more
07.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Cranberry Scare Of 2025 Is Not New, It's Been A Thanksgiving Tradition Since 1959 People are concerned about cranberries again this November, but it isn't a new phenomenon. Cranberries were actually the first modern chemophobia scare, when anti-science activists got government to first do what they have since done to weedkillers, trans fats, ultraprocessed foods, BPA, you name it - terrify the public about a product using bad epidemiology despite there being no science basis for it.(1) read more
07.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
PAST AS PROLOGUE: An Engineering Legacy 1980s photo of the author, right; his father, center; and his sister, left. read more
07.11.2025 01:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas.

We just proved it by showing the rest of the U.S. that 64% of California will vote for something 92% of California opposes, if we're told by Democrats it will be bad for Republicans.

#Prop50

06.11.2025 02:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Long before Google Trends existed, generations of men had a number they'd laugh about.

Gen Alpha broke out of that dusty old framework and changed culture forever.

05.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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American Heart Association: Thank Ozempic For Less Type 2 DIabetes At the upcoming American Heart Association meeting, participants will learn of the epidemiological results of 63,656 military veterans with Type 2 diabetes in the Million Veteran Program who took GLP-1 receptor agonists (semaglutide - "Wegovy", dulaglutide - "Trulicity", etc.). The survey analysis found that those who also changed their lifestyle habits had a 50% lower risk of serious cardiovascular events(1) compared to those who didn't report a healthier lifestyle and received diabetes care without GLP-1 RA medication. read more
03.11.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Your Predator: Badlands Future - Optical Camouflage, Now Made By Bacteria In the various 'Predator' films, the alien hunter can see across various spectra while enabling camouflage from our vision. That happens in nature. Octopuses, squids, and the scariest of them all, cuttlefish, in the cephalopod family have evolved the ablity to modify their skin to blend in with the environment. That is due to the presence of xanthommatin, a natural pigment with color-shifting capabilities. read more
03.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Europe Rations Air Conditioning But The US Has Made A Map To Help People Optimize It America uses less energy per capita than we did in World War II, and even World War I. Thanks to natural gas, we provide energy in most states at an affordable cost.(1) With the help of a new data set that shows where air conditioning is used, it will be even easier to know where things can be improved. In France, you have to get permission from both the government and your neighbors to put in air conditioning. You will also want to be wealthy because it is more profitable to sell it to the rest of Europe than domestically.(2) America has far more equity, about 90% of people have air conditioning but the new AC Map shows that not all of it is optimal. Portable units in a humid area are not very effective, for example. read more
02.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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November First Today is November 1st, the day dedicated to the dead, and I am in northern Sweden where daylight is scarce this time of the year. The two things conjure to arise thoughts of a darkish nature.  [Above, a lousy picture taken this evening in a cemetery in Gammelstad, close to Lulea, in Norrbotten, Sweden. Sorry for the bad quality... Yet the landscape with all those small lights was really inspiring.] read more
01.11.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Drugs, Crime, And… Homelessness? A commenter contested my statement that gang murders are a much greater menace to public safety than homelessness – at least, here in Albuquerque. So let’s unpack. Preliminaries read more
31.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't Marry A Ghost; If You Divorce It Will Haunt You When I wrote Halloween Science 2.0, I wanted to get it down to a brisk 150 pages, which means taking a chainsaw to a lot of the material I had.(1) Like the woman who left her corporeal significant other to become a ghost groupie. Amethyst Realm, that is not her Dungeons&Dragons name, she calls herself that for real, cheated on her totally organic fiancé with a ghost but she suggested it was kind of his fault. He moved them into a haunted house. read more
30.10.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Forced Organ Donation Remains Problematic But A Science Solution For Transplants Is Coming There is legitimate concern about increased social authoritarianism in governments worldwide. The state has gained more financial control everywhere. Even in the U.S nearly 60% of wealth is controlled by politicians, and it is the most "capitalist" country. It led to a culture where the American federal government forced employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine or be fired. Yet 20,000,000 government employees were not given that same ultimatum. The same mentality has led to countries where companies in the organ transplant business want you to be an organ donor by law. It would create another schism in U.S. culture, where body autonomy remains an issue. There can be no body autonomy if the government can force you to donate your organs. read more
29.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Longevity Studies, Old Dogs Can Teach Us New Tricks The older you get, the more frail you become. The more frail you become, the greater the risk of falling, hospitalization, and shorter life expectancy. Doctors talk about physical activity to reduce frailty but less attention is paid to biology. A new paper suggests that the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis, the body’s system of regulating production of the hormone testosterone, can impact frailty. "Suggests" means this is only EXPLORATORY, not human science, but a relationship between  read more
28.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Next Plague: Did We Learn Anything From COVID-19? In early 2018, colleagues and I released The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It and coronavirus was in there, because there had already been two coronavirus pandemics, SARS and MERS, this century. No one anticipated that SARS-CoV-2 would erupt in Wuhan, China, and be the worst pandemic since the 1950s but one thing I had long been concerned about was how unprepared the CDC was. Thanks to government becoming more overlords and less public servants - sorry, George Soros and friends, 'no kings' was a problem decades before President Trump was elected - and government employees spent their days grasping for more money rather than helping anyone.(1) read more
28.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kennedy Effect: Now NIEHS Scaremongers Any 'Detectable' PFAS Levels A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences paper(1) is sounding the alarm about detectable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood samples of Delaware residents. It sounds scary, but scientifically there are two things to keep in mind: 1. We can detect anything in anything in 2025. 2. Presence is not pathology. read more
27.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Are We Stochastic Parrots, Too? What LLMs Teach Us About Intelligence And Understanding Having interacted for a few months with ChatGPT 5 now, both for work-related problems and for private / self-learning tasks, I feel I might share some thoughts here on what these large models can tell us about our own thought processes.  The sentence above is basically giving away my bottomline from square one, but I suppose I can elaborate a bit more on the concept. LLMs have revolutionized a wide range of information-processing tasks in just three or four years. Looking back, the only comparable breakthrough I can recall is the advent of internet search engines in the early 1990s. But as exciting and awesome this breakthrough is, it inspires me still more to ponder on how this is even possible. Let me unpack this. read more
24.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hepatologists Ironically Over-Represented In Alcoholism A survey asked 185 practicing transplant hepatologists across the U.S. who are among the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases members across the U.S. about "unhealthy" alcohol use - alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen, so unless you eat healthy amounts of plutonium or smoke healthy amount of cigarettes 'unhealthy' is a strange qualifier only alcohol gets - and found 26.3 percent screened positive for way too much alcohol use. Which is higher than the general United States population but ironic since hepatologists are gastroenterologists who focus on liver diseases and alcohol is the leading cause of liver disease. So common that they had to create a non-alcohol version for the rarer cases of fatty liver disease that don't involve drinking. read more
23.10.2025 20:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Make Your Own Halloween Slime - In Both Gen X And Hippie-Dippie Baloney Versions If a politician who used to be a Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer hasn’t banned all food coloring by the time you read this, here is how you can make your own green slime. In both Gen X - chemicals that sound like chemicals - and more natural-sounding versions of chemicals. Basically, people who think Dawn dishwashing liquid is an organic weedkiller. These are excerpted from Halloween Science 2.0, available on Amazon (and free if you have Kindle Unlimited) Let’s post two ways. Both of these scale, depending on how much slime you want. read more
21.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Impostor Participants Are Skewing Epidemiological Surveys Impostor participants are people who fake data in order to take part in health research or are  automated computer ‘bots’ which mimic human behavior and responses. As claims get promoted in journalism about harms related to PFAS in water, weedkillers causing cancer, or food coloring causing diabetes, lawsuits by predatory lawyers have become big business, and it won't be a surprise if such Predatorts or environmental and other activist groups are involved in fake participants to manipulate results in their favor. read more
19.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The bank texted me to ask if I had written out a check for my house re-pipe or been hacked.

They weren't wrong to be surprised. It's difficult getting money out of me.

Here is my checkbook. That dust is real. It creaks when you open it.

18.10.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Humans Made California Wildfires More Dangerous, Though Not With Emissions A new call to action by ecologists uses a numerical model to note that wildfires in places like California have been made worse by humans.  That doesn't mean it is human emissions. For decades, California government has banned logging. They let people move to risky fire areas and then not pay for any mitigation or firebreaks. State and local governments refuse to allow dead brush to be cleared because it impacts the environment. read more
18.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Helps Doctors Look At Lots Of Data Fast For Diagnostic Clues Actors, artists, and musicians are rightly worried about the impact of AI on their incomes but doctors and scientists welcome the help. They know typewriters didn't make literature worse than writing in longhand and "AI" - LLMs - likewise removes the 'how' of information access so thinkers can get to the 'why.' In modern government-controlled healthcare, doctors are more pressed for time per patient than ever. Often while relying on incomplete information. Electronic health records contain vast amounts of patient data but much of it remains difficult to interpret quickly, and that is even more challenging for patients with rare diseases or unusual symptoms. read more
17.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Altmetric Will Now Include Your Podcast In the early days of Science 2.0, blogging did not get a lot of institutional respect. Public outreach was a waste of time, academics were often told, leave that to science journalists and the PIOs at schools who write press releases. It seemed archaic. Anyone who knows how much of science is government-funded, about a third of basic research, knows that means it is political. Which means you cannot and should not let someone else write your narrative. It's too easy to manipulate. A decade ago, when a group wrote to Columbia University and asked them to remove Dr. Oz from the faculty because of his claims about supplements and that medicine was a corporate conspiracy, he got allies in corporate journalism to dismiss us as Big Pharma shills.(1) read more
17.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coca Leaf: Native Heritage Or Dangerous Drug? Due to President Clinton's 1994 DSHEA law (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), and diverting science funding to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a large number of people believe acupuncture works and that supplements can be alternatives to medicine. Acupuncture is the placebo effect but some natural products can work - the problem is that if they work they may do something bad. Kratom is an example of a product banned in countries that grow it; unless it is for export to the United States. They know that it works, and also that it can kill Godzilla. read more
16.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What's Happening In The Brains Of Protesters? From Los Angeles to Portland to New York City, political protests have become common. That provides data for what may be happening in brains and how engaged people can avoid becoming a Tyler Robinson or Luigi Mangione or Antifa in Oregon. The US is not special when it comes to protests, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace says there have been over 140 mass demonstrations globally in the past year, with 30 ongoing. A new paper(1) says  up to 80% of activists experience moderate to severe anxiety or depression. Are they protesting because they are anxious or are they anxious because they spend time in a group of protesters?  read more
15.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AT 2024tvd: A Black Hole Is Eating A Star Outside A Galaxy Center, And Spitting Parts Back Out When you picture a black hole, you probably picture in the center of a galaxy with matter swirling toward it. You're not wrong but that is why the exception proves the rule. A recent study detected a surprising tidal disruption event where a black hole outside the center of a galaxy is tearing apart a star. Even stranger and defiance of black hole lore, the delayed and powerful radio outbursts suggest previously unknown processes in how black holes eject material over time. Designated AT 2024tvd, it is to-date the fastest-evolving radio emission ever observed from a black-hole-driven stellar disruption. read more
15.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do You Have A Sixth Sense? NIH Funds An Interoception Study To Find Out The process by which the nervous system continuously receives and interprets the body’s physiological signals to keep vital functions running smoothly, a "sixth sense" called interoception that tells your brain when you need to breathe, when your blood pressure declines or when you have an infection, is getting some star power; a Nobel laureate neuroscientist, And an NIH grant. read more
14.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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