As usual, it’s unlikely that this will pan out, but it’s certainly worthy of further investigation.
Category Archives: General Science
A “Fasting-Style” Diet
Seems to have previously unknown benefits to the brain.
The problem with this article is that (a) they don’t really describe what the “fasting-style diet” is, in terms of how long the fast, or what days they do it, and (b), as with most nutrition studies, it’s probably based on self reporting, and it’s not clear that there are any controls.
I do suspect, though, that we didn’t evolved to three squares a day, which would have been hard as hunter gatherers, which is one of the ways that agriculture screwed up our health, though it allowed the existence of orders of magnitude more unhealthy people.
I personally fast almost every day until evening. Dinner (or supper, depending on your local vernacular) is my literal breakfast, though I don’t have bacon and eggs then.
The Evolution Of Niceness
Sabine Hossenfelder
“How I fell out of love with academia.”
Science is badly broken, as is university research (of course, lots of things about universities are badly broken).
Climate, The Movie
It’s out and available for free on line. Spread the word.
Is Pluto A Planet?
The debate rages on.
[Via Phil Metzger, who has significantly contributed to the debate]
The Climate-Hysteria Industry
An interview with Judith Curry.
“Passion Is Not Misconduct”
No, but what Professor Mann did is. An illogical, misinformed editorial at Science.
[Update a while later]
A few more thoughts on the case from Will Bates.
[Friday-morning update]
The latest over at Mark Steyn’s place: “So the net result of Mann vs Simberg is that Mann owes Simberg $8,587.64. Pay up, you deadbeat.”
Well, he actually owes it to both me and CEI, and we have to split it, so he only owes me a little over four times the (soon to be likely reduced) judgment. Here is our latest filing.
[Late-morning update]
The battle between skeptics and climate “dictators“: “Skepticism is a necessary aspect of the scientific discovery process. During the trial, however, skeptics such as Curry were not allowed to testify, despite her having prepared a 54-page report for the court on the hockey stick science, which was highly critical of Mann’s work.”
Judy did testify, but only as a fact witness, not an expert witness.
[Early-afternoon update]
Back On The Air (Sort Of)
Momentarily.
So, I came down with a cold on Tuesday evening. I first noticed it at a U of Michigan reception at SciTech after the main reception (attendees were in high spirits after their football team had won their first national championship after a quarter of a century, unalloyed by having to unfairly share it with Nebraska; I say “unfairly” because many think that Missouri beat them but lost on a bad call). I noticed that my throat was getting a little sore, and my nose was starting to run. (Interestingly, it was the sickest I’ve been since long before Covid).
Anyway, I was better on Wednesday, and attended the conference, then spent the later afternoon and evening with my niece who lives in Orlando. I had a scheduled flight to DC on Thursday evening, but decided to go to the airport and get out earlier on standby, and arrived here late yesterday afternoon. My nose started running again and I had a rough night sleeping, and I lost my voice during the day, but I’m on the mend now. I expect I’ll be much better tomorrow, and fine for the upcoming trial next week.
But I’m spending the weekend cramming for my upcoming testimony, probably Wednesday or Thursday, as a hostile witness for the plaintiff, so probably light blogging not just this weekend, but for the next three-and-a-half weeks. So be grateful if you get any free ice cream between now and the second week of February.
ChatGPT
Can it reason?