Posted on Jun 30, 2023 | Comments Off on NRR May Finally Put Haber-Bosch On The Back Burner
Most of the world relies on a 113-year-old chemical reaction used every day. It is the Haber (or Haber-Bosch) process and while its contribution to energy usage and emissions is negligible compared to its benefits, the private sector is always looking for ways to keep things affordable. That means trying to come up with a fundamentally better way to fix nitrogen than the one invented before...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Weekend Science: The Chemistry Of Pairing Food And Beer
After spending thousands of years converging on the perfect beers, this century culture went crazy and overdid hops, tinkered with grains, and generally made niche beers at high cost. Yet there is no question craft beers are big business, a growing segment when balanced lagers are in decline.read...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Information Theory Scholars Honor Their Bets On ‘Consciousness’ – And Make Dumb Bets
If are in the humanities and want to win a case of wine in the future, bet against someone in the information theory space. Neither of you can ever really be correct but the one with at least the pretense of the scientific method will have to admit they have fallen prey to someone like a post-modernist, who can never be wrong. On anything. Ever. Because truth is just a cultural reflex and can't...
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Posted on Jun 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Pesticides, Vaccines, Why People Believe In Conspiracy Theories
If you believed Monsanto controlled 500,000 biologists who accepted GMOs and weedkillers worldwide while Whole Foods, with more revenue, was standing alone selling organic food that made you healthier, you are a conspiracy theorist. You're not alone, even if the demographics changed. A few years ago, conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his claims that cell phones cause cancer and...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2023 | Comments Off on People Lie On Surveys And When Its Comes To Guns, Women And Minorities Want Government To Know The Least
A crippling flaw in much epidemiology is that it takes survey results as truthful and then seeks to correlate that to some benefit or harm. It's why epidemiologists said butter was bad and trans fats were good, until butter was good and trans fats were bad. If you were gullible enough to buy quinoa, teff, or any other superfood, some influencer you believed had an epidemiology paper on their...
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