For about 60 years, we’ve been told that commercialized fusion is 30 years away. Latest predictions? Oh, about 30 years away. But there’s been much brouhaha over what’s been called “game-changing,” “transformative,” and “a moment of history” in the field….
Do you remember back when you were in school and your math or science teacher gave a test in class in which you were asked to solve a problem or two and you were explicitly admonished to show your work?…
In the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, a group of German “scientists” who are “concerned” — read deranged — about the “climate emergency” — glued their hands to the floor of the Porsche exhibit hall in Wolfsburg,…
Dr. Anthony Fauci once said that science was him, and Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, and Alexander Fleming turned in their graves. It’s as if Hispanic singer Ozuna were to say: “Music is me” — I can already imagine…
Science in an Age of Unreason By John Staddon (Regnery Gateway, 256 pages, $27) “Science is about is not ought,” John Staddon repeats in variation throughout his new book, Science in an Age of Unreason. But people who are so…
Of all the animals on Earth, there is only one capable of sparking a nuclear catastrophe, causing a pileup on the highway, and making several people fall down the stairs simultaneously. It is the fly. That genetic accident. That damned…
A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the world is about to descend into a self-imposed dark age. More worrisome still is that Europe’s duly elected despots are dooming their nations to darkness without any meaningful discussion as…
In “They Saved Lisa’s Brain,” Lisa Simpson joins the local Mensa chapter, whose members subsequently decide their intelligence equips them to run Springfield. A live-action version of this Simpsons episode occurs in the pages of Science, which presently lowers its…
“I am a palaeoecologist at the University of Maine and, like the nearly one in four people capable of becoming pregnant in their lifetime in the United States, I have an abortion story,” begins an article in Nature magazine. The…
Despite the advice given Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate, plastics have always been a favorite environmentalist whipping boy. Way back in 2010, the New Yorker ran an article by physician and scientist Jerome Groopman titled “The Plastic Panic.” Before that,…