Back to your cubicles, you impudent pups. The boss wants you in traffic and swilling stale office coffee again. It’s good for business. Except that isn’t true, which poses a puzzle over the “return-to-office” preoccupations of some corporate chieftains. In January President Donald Trump joined the Fortune 500 fad for demanding workers resume commuting. Trump… Continue reading Return-to-Office Demands Don’t Benefit Employees or Businesses
How to Get Ahead of H5N1
The United States is failing to act decisively against the growing H5N1 threat, with human cases already emerging from unknown origins and evidence of widespread animal transmission. Without immediate nationwide livestock testing and isolation, expanded wastewater surveillance, and rapid vaccine distribution to at-risk populations, the virus risks mutating into a form capable of sustained human… Continue reading How to Get Ahead of H5N1
The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash
February 12, 2025 5 min read The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings The highest-energy cosmic neutrino detected to date was observed by KM3NeT,… Continue reading The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash
Securing Supply Chain Resilience Requires a Common Vocabulary and Vision
This commentary was originally published by Supply Chain Xchange on December 23, 2024. The Biden Administration started sounding the alarm about America’s supply chains just weeks after taking office in 2021 with an Executive Order, followed by the launch of the Council on Supply Chain Resilience in 2023 and additional instructions in 2024. While progress… Continue reading Securing Supply Chain Resilience Requires a Common Vocabulary and Vision
This Sea Turtle Dance Isn’t Just Adorable—It’s Useful
February 12, 2025 4 min read The Surprising Importance of This Adorable Sea Turtle Dance Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize those spots By Jack Tamisiea edited by Andrea Thompson Loggerhead turtle hatchling. To juvenile loggerhead… Continue reading This Sea Turtle Dance Isn’t Just Adorable—It’s Useful
America Is Easily the U.S.’s Best, Most Influential, Most Peaceful Export
On January 26, 2023, popular U.S. hamburger chain Five Guys opened in Seoul, South Korea’s capital city. The weather was rainy and humid, but South Koreans braved up to twelve hours in line to get a taste of Americana. The Five Guys anecdote came to mind while reading about tennis great Martina Navratilova’s recollections… Continue reading America Is Easily the U.S.’s Best, Most Influential, Most Peaceful Export
The Rapture (Millennium, Tribulation, Premillennial, Pretribulation, Posttribulation, End of Days)
The Rapture (Millennium, Tribulation, Premillennial, Pretribulation, Posttribulation, End of Days) < !- end of Google Analytics Code Snippet by GA4WP–> // tabnab protection window.addEventListener(‘load’, function () { // make all links have rel=”noopener noreferrer” document.querySelectorAll(‘a[target=”_blank”]’).forEach(link => { link.setAttribute(‘rel’, ‘noopener noreferrer’); }); }); ]]> Podcast: Download MYS357: Many Christians believe in the Rapture, a mysterious event… Continue reading The Rapture (Millennium, Tribulation, Premillennial, Pretribulation, Posttribulation, End of Days)
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case.
Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to swell in size at an ever-increasing rate — might be slackening. The bombshell result, based on the team’s observations of the motions of millions of galaxies combined with other data, was tentative and preliminary. Today,… Continue reading Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case.
The Latest Attacks on America Follow a Familiar Playbook
The tragic pickup truck ramming in New Orleans and the subsequent explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas remind us that terrorist threats remain a deadly reality in the United States. There are no indications yet that the two attacks were coordinated. More likely, they are coincidental, although that will not prevent linking them… Continue reading The Latest Attacks on America Follow a Familiar Playbook
The Latest on Bird Flu Strains and Sick Cats
February 12, 2025 3 min read The Latest on Bird Flu Strains and Sick Cats Scientists have reported a new strain of bird flu in Nevada dairy cattle. And viral spread in pet cats has fueled worries over increased risk of exposure to humans By Tanya Lewis edited by Lauren J. Young Editor’s Note (2/20/25):… Continue reading The Latest on Bird Flu Strains and Sick Cats