Miyake events are believed to be several orders of magnitude greater than the Carrington Event. It is not clear what causes the event. If a Miyake event equivalent to the…
Category: Science
Analyzing Studies
For issues that are really important, you need to learn how to separate credible studies from unreliable ones.
In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
If Western civilisation is to persist, it needs more than anything else to save its science, because otherwise our civilisation will be conquered and replaced.
Scientific Method Restored to Science Education in North Carolina
Challengers of the status quo are more likely to be met with ad hominem than data.
Geophysical Consequences of Celestial Mechanics
The core of their elegant physics explains well the careful observations gathered in the past 200 years.
La Brea Megafaunal Extinctions Driven by Fires 13,000 Years Ago
Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS) Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions from Southern California were driven by large-scale fires in an ecosystem made increasingly vulnerable by climate change…
The March 1940 Superstorm: Geoelectromagnetic Hazards and Impacts on American Communication and Power Systems
In some places, geoelectric amplitudes induced during the March 1940 storm, Section 12, exceeded American electric-power-industry benchmarks.
Room Temperature Superconductor Mania
Room Temperature Superconductor? A room temperature, ambient pressure Superconductor. So how exactly does it work, is this research legit, and why does it matter?
Anniversary Issue: the Crichton CalTech Michelin Lecture
It is not strictly the 20th anniversary of this repeatedly-quoted lecture – that would have been the 17th of January, but I am not a strict by-the-calendar guy. I post…
Claim: We’ve Pumped So much Groundwater that We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin
The shifting of mass and consequent sea level rise due to groundwater withdrawal has caused the Earth’s rotational pole to wander nearly a meter in two decades
Masters of Acclimation: Octopuses Adjust to Cold by Editing their RNA
The idea the environment can influence that genetic information, as we’ve shown in cephalopods, is a new concept.
The genetics of temperature adaptation: how does life thrive in extreme conditions?
Interestingly, the researchers found that thermotolerant organisms had smaller genomes and a higher fraction of core genome.
32-year Reuters veteran reporter comes clean on ‘climate change’: ‘I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong’
The science wasn’t even close to being proven, and I had great difficulty finding anyone to say the link between excessive human-made carbon dioxide (CO2) and a changing climate was…
A Hidden Universe of Uncertainty
Even highly skilled scientists motivated to come to accurate results varied tremendously in what they found when provided with the same data and hypothesis to test.
New Evidence Shows Water Separates into Two Different Liquids at Low Temperatures
Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Birmingham and Sapienza Università di Roma.
The Many-Analysts Approach
“Why do we have so many wildly varying answers to so many of the important science questions of our day? Not only varying, but often directly contradictory.”
Peer Review Plus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A Modest Proposal For Improving Peer Review Abstract. A proposal is made for the design of a specific type of post-publication peer review. Background In…
The physics of fire ant rafts could help engineers design swarming robots
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up…
Three Critical Factors in the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Dr. Foster and his team were able to directly link their extinction to the following climate changes: declining oxygen levels in the water, rising water temperatures, and most likely also…
Most Published Studies Exaggerated the Effects of Ocean Acidification – and Covid, Etc.
However, a problem with laboratory experiments is that they cannot capture the complexities of the real world, not even the tremendous natural variability in ocean pH – which is a…
