A new study sought to analyze the chewing nature of four types of gum bases and along the way determine bubbling capacity also. Gums are generally oils, resins, and elastomers generally held in pleasant form by the gum base. So gum base is important to manufacturers. Chewing gum is a $25 billion per year business, 1,740,000,000,000 sticks. If humans chew each stick for 10 minutes, that is...
read moreCommon sense says that if you have a lot more people walking, often in dark costumes, and just as many people driving, plus more people drinking alcohol than would otherwise occur on a Tuesday, pedestrian fatalities will go up. Common sense is right. They will.read...
read moreDo you know someone old who takes proton pump inhibitors and got Dementia? Lawyers are standing by to sue, thanks to epidemiologists who can "correlate" anything to anything. If an emotional appeal to a jury is made - 'we need to hold these corporations accountable!' - they are sure to win.And then lose on appeal, as has happened with weedkillers, because a jury can believe anything they want but...
read moreActivists in the Baby Boomer and Generation X demographic promote a narrative that guns are a big worry for youth, and climate change will kill them unless everyone gets solar, but it is only resonating with people in their tribe.Gen Z has been raised in an information age, they know that outside suicide and criminal activity, gun deaths are so rare that it's only slightly more concerning than...
read moreA Science editorial sought to appeal to scientists who might want to publish open access, or in another journal, by suggesting ways AAAS is better than other corporations: "Despite these similarities, the fact that Science is a nonprofit journal makes a big difference in how we operate" and then noting the profits they make "does not go to corporate shareholders."read...
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