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Air Pollution From Wildfires Can Do In One Day What PM2.5 ‘Virtual’ Pollution Never Will

Posted by on Jan 10, 2022 in Atmospheric | Comments Off on Air Pollution From Wildfires Can Do In One Day What PM2.5 ‘Virtual’ Pollution Never Will

When you see a TV weather personality put up an air quality map for the last 10 years, it might make you believe that pollution is far worse than when you were young.

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Air Pollution From Wildfires Can Do In One Day What PM2.5 ‘Virtual’ Pollution Never Will

Posted by on Jan 10, 2022 in Atmospheric | Comments Off on Air Pollution From Wildfires Can Do In One Day What PM2.5 ‘Virtual’ Pollution Never Will

When you see a TV weather personality put up an air quality map for the last 10 years, it might make you believe that pollution is far worse than when you were young.

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2022 Is The Year ‘Soylent Green’ Took Place – Here’s How Food Science Saved The World Instead

Posted by on Jan 3, 2022 in Environment | Comments Off on 2022 Is The Year ‘Soylent Green’ Took Place – Here’s How Food Science Saved The World Instead

In the 1966 Harry Harrison novel "Make Room! Make Room!" concerns about population control were the driver of the plot and the storytellers were various people in New York City when the world has reached a population of 7 billion. You have probably never heard of the novel, but you likely have heard of the movie version, "Soylent Green", starring the incomparable Charlton Heston.

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Spurious Correlation: Epidemiology Paper Links Virtual Air Pollution To Fatty Liver Disease

Posted by on Dec 10, 2021 in Atmospheric | Comments Off on Spurious Correlation: Epidemiology Paper Links Virtual Air Pollution To Fatty Liver Disease

A new study hopes to link long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a name change from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease because it is associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes.  

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Science Tips For Managing Stress At Thanksgiving

Posted by on Nov 24, 2021 in Psychology | Comments Off on Science Tips For Managing Stress At Thanksgiving

Sometimes people ask me if there is an evidence-based way to manage the stress of dealing with difficult relatives at Thanksgiving, and my short answer is "chloroform."

In modern hippie dippie wellness culture, that may not be the response people are seeking, they may want validation of essential oils or an app, but one thing most people don't realize is that stress is not about fads or even other people. We manage stress, we only think it manages us. 

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In A Pandemic World, Be Thankful For Pesticides

Posted by on Nov 23, 2021 in Chemistry | Comments Off on In A Pandemic World, Be Thankful For Pesticides

This year, you're going to pay 24 percent more for a turkey, a tough bite out of the wallet for poor people and a dose of reality for economists and armchair pundits who claimed prior to today's "stagflation" that higher prices are no concern.

Imagine how much higher prices would be if food suffered the yield losses that occur without modern pesticides. This year I am thankful for my health and my family but also science. Outside my house are signs thanking healthcare workers, delivery people, and farmers - and if they made one for science, including vaccines and pesticides, I'd own it.

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The Average Kid Is Up To 8 Hours Of Digital Per Day, But Is That Bad?

Posted by on Nov 22, 2021 in Psychology | Comments Off on The Average Kid Is Up To 8 Hours Of Digital Per Day, But Is That Bad?

Recent survey results of 118 eight-to-twelve year-old children examined total hours of media consumed, hours of video game play, and number of media used concurrently. Then the authors correlated those to things like behavior, sleep, and psychological issues.

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Military Veteran Deaths Went Up In 2020 As You’d Expect, But Less Than The General Population

Posted by on Nov 11, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on Military Veteran Deaths Went Up In 2020 As You’d Expect, But Less Than The General Population

Suicides and other mental health issues, as well as general deaths, went up during the pandemic in 2020 and veterans were not excluded. But they fared better than the general population, which is good news for Veteran's Day.

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Electric Car Batteries Are An Expensive, Energy Intensive Headache To Recycle – And That Is Not Going Away

Posted by on Nov 10, 2021 in Energy | Comments Off on Electric Car Batteries Are An Expensive, Energy Intensive Headache To Recycle – And That Is Not Going Away

Riding a wave of government mandates and subsidies, and ignoring that fossil fuel usage to create electricity is identical to what it was before a trillion dollars in additional subsidies for solar and wind alternatives, electric cars are now everywhere.

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Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women

Posted by on Nov 3, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women

If we want people to trust disease epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic - and the next pandemic after that, since this was the third one of just coronavirus in 17 years - then we have to start holding suspect epidemiologists accountable.

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