Posted on Jan 28, 2021 | Comments Off on An Alternate Approach To Stopping Mosquitoes That Spread Zika – Using CRISPR To Make Them Resistant To Carrying It
The mosquitoes that carry zika, like Aedes aegypti, are considered by all but the most activist ecologists to be useless disease vectors. There is nothing they do in nature that isn't easily done by other mosquitoes and they can safely join the 99.999999999% of species that have gone extinct without causing a cascade of doom. Seriously, Send me your hate mail, @ me on Twitter, try to cancel...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2021 | Comments Off on The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000
If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2021 | Comments Off on The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000
If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Twitter Was Telling The World About COVID-19 When China Was Still Suppressing Information
In January of 2020 we began to write about "coronavirus 2019" due to concern regarding increased cases of pneumonia during a mild flu season, while the Chinese dictatorship was denying there was any problem at all. Just over a week later a key whistleblower in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, turned up dead after being arrested and held prisoner for a month by the communist government for...
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Posted on Jun 26, 2020 | Comments Off on To Have Great Science Literacy, We Must Have Greater Digital Literacy – An Experiment Shows How
The anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements are products of the digital age. While there were always vaccine deniers, they were a tiny religious fringe until the 2000s, when it took England and the coasts of the U.S. by storm. Similarly, odd beliefs about food always existed but they were relegated to obscure stores. Social media changed all that. Facebook and Twitter became hotbeds of...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2020 | Comments Off on 5G Update: Belief In Harm Is Still Belief In Magic
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Berkeley psychologist Joel Moskowitz, and other anti-science conspiracy theorists use the language of science against it to advance their beliefs that we're all being harmed by the modern world.So when they see a scientific statement like "very low risk" of harm from any cell phone service, including 5G, they have a ready...
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