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Category Archives: General Science
The Climate Debate
CEI pushes back on Chuck Todd’s fantasy that it is over.
From Brain Waves
…to synthesized speech. This could be a huge breakthrough for people locked in (one of my personal nightmares).
Climate Models
When are they useful?
Squirrels
Six snippets of science. I had one that would take peanuts out of my hand a couple years ago. The first two or three, (s)he would eat, but the rest would get stashed somewhere.
Mike’s Nature Trick
An explanation for Scott Adams (note Steve McIntyre’s suggestion in comments).
Ocean Warming
No, it’s probably not accelerating faster than we thought.
[Early-afternoon update]
Modern warming was driven primarily by “primarily natural” factors; the cooling has begun.
The Case Against Carbohydrates
And this wasn’t another crap epidemiological study. It was controlled.
The Real Food Problem
I’ve been saying this for years. The problem isn’t coming up with enough calories; it’s about feeding people a healthy diet. But the calorie-counting insanity is going to cause poor health all over, not just in the West.
Ultima Thule
Congratulations to Alan Stern and the New Horizons team. The flyby appears to have been a success, we now know that it’s bilobal, and it didn’t have a light curve because the spacecraft was (coincidentally) coming toward its spin axis. Not enough data yet to know if it has a 15-hour or 30-hour period, but we’ll start getting high-res pictures tomorrow. It will take two year to download all the data, though, to give similar resolution that we got for Pluto.
[Update a while later]
High(er) res tomorrow, not high-res.