A new paper from a California university warns that dust is changing the microbiome of mice.Because it is just in mice, and mice are not little people, this is only EXPLORATORY, but so are claims about vaccines, GMOs, and corn syrup and because scientists didn't stand up to those when epidemiology papers claimed their correlation was really causation, it might be worth nipping this in the rodent...
read more'Green' chemical products have generally gotten a pass from the environmental community but with one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, now in charge of a gigantic government health agency and going after the modern world, the lawsuit money is too good to pass up. So-called eco-friendly chemical products have come under fire.read...
read moreThe polyphagous Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a Lepidopteran pest, has European farmers in a panic and, when the environmental NGOs government funds are not around, it has politicians concerned also. Though classified as a priority pest since 2023, fall armyworm remains easy to establish and fast to spread. Corn crops, a vital part of EU agriculture, remain at risk. Despite that,...
read moreIn the 1980s, the majority party in Congress saw demography claims that people with college educations made more money than those without. Universities began to lobby for student loan changes. Many smaller private schools were facing funding crunches and people going to college would fix that.The drumbeat for equitable treatment for the poor got louder and as part of other governance,...
read moreGen X is getting its own Captain America. This is a big deal. Culturally, Boomers as cultural majority gave way to the next large demographic, Millennials, while Gen X got slighted. Even though we had the best music since the 1940s.On the plus side, being a minority means we don't get hate. Gen Z dislikes millennials for being cringe, millennials dislike Gen Z for being so Puritan, and...
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