A Release Valve for Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
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Should you get a new bike seat, for the good of your sexual health? As the Blogfather would say, why take chances?
John Tierney, reports.
“I’ve spent much of my journalistic career debunking health scares, but the bike-saddle menace struck me as a no-brainer when I first heard about it. Why, if you had an …
Milk Doesn’t Make Coughing Worse
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This is good news because milk is my daughter’s favorite drink even (especially?) when she’s sick. We used to tell her that drinking milk would make her cough worse. Now, we won’t have to.
“The question has been formally investigated in studies, which demonstrated no increase in mucus production,” Dr. Sulica said, “although subjects …
That’s How a Dark Age Begins
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“Daddy, is it really true that they used to fly to the moon when you were a boy?” That shook me and it still does. It shook me because that’s how a dark age begins. A dark age is not just when you as a civilization have forgotten how to do something. It’s when you forget that you ever could.
No Evidence of Climate Change Harm
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while economic growth and technological development fueled mainly by fossil fuels are responsible for some portion of the warming experienced this century, they are largely responsible for the above-noted improvements in human well-being in developing countries (and elsewhere). The fact that these improvements occurred despite any global warming indicates that economic and technological development has been, overall, a benefit to developing countries.
Space Farming
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This is pretty cool. Teams around the world are working on plans for building indoor farms on the moon. These farms would scrub CO2 out of the air, produce about 500 pounds of oxygen a year, and produce food for the astronauts. And, most of it could be run by robots.
The Problem with Anthropogenic Global Warming
Even assuming that all of the warming that occurred from 1900-2000 was due to human activities (a very dubious assertion to begin with), the climate still isn’t as sensitive to increases in CO2 as the climate models predicate. The climate models have to add in additional fudge factors to get the results that the “scientists” want to see.
Until that changes — until there is hard evidence that the climate really is that sensitive to increases in CO2 — I’ll continue to oppose any kind of carbon caps, carbon taxes, or any other attempt by the government to control how we generate and use energy.
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (p.1!)
NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION
That Geisler and Turek have written a book about how much more intellectual sense it makes to be a Christian is, to my mind, interesting in itself for what it says about the modern Christian.
The title isn’t simply a catty remark about how ridiculously unsupportable Geisler & Turek believe atheists’ world view …
Where Drugs Come From: The Numbers
We can now answer the question: “Where do new drugs come from?”. A new paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery takes on all 252 drugs approved by the FDA from then through 2007, and traces each of them back to their origins. What’s more, each drug is evaluated by how much unmet medical need it was addressed to and how scientifically innovative it was.
Will Doctors Use Bacteria To Kill Your Next Cancer?
James Byrne wrote about new developments in cancer treatment for Scientific American. Researchers are looking at ways to use bacteria to kill cancerous tumours, without making you sick the way chemotherapy and radiation do.
Plastics from engineered yeast?
We’re going to run out of oil someday — whether it’s now or 75 years from now. Plastics are pretty important and we’ll need a way to produce them once we run out of oil. Given all of that, how cool is this?
Engineered yeast could produce low-cost plastics from renewable resources:
The researchers engineered …