Category Archives: General Science
Climate Event Attribution
Three rules for judging its validity.
Another Anti-Science Cabal
Now it’s Alzheimer’s. It is infuriating, and tragic. In nutrition, in climate, and in medicine in general, the peer-review system is so broken, it would be better to just get rid of it entirely.
[Thursday-morning update]
How Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg corrupted climate science.
[Update a while later]
Tuberculosis vaccine found to be effective against Alzheimer’s. It seems, to the degree that it’s effective at all, to be more prophylactic than a cure.
A Water-Eating Virus
…from Maaaaars.
A truly dumb article, disappointing from Quillette.
Running
Why you shouldn’t be doing it.
This is definitely news I can use. I only run when chasing something, or being chased by something, or trying to catch a plane.
The Solar Minimum
It is officially “deep.”
Climate Models Versus Observations
A 2019 update.
TL;DR: They continue to run hot.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Climate utopias and engineering reality.
[Update a few minutes later]
How to trigger a global recession overnight? Ban fracking.
[Late-morning update]
Judith Curry reflects on “Climategate,” a decade later. Hard to believe it’s really been that long.
Rationality
How to be rational about it.
Viking Women
Yes, they were probably warriors though, as the article points out, they would have had to have a different fighting style.
Central Butte
Bob Zimmerman continues to follow Curiosity’s progress on Mars.