Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a critical source of urgent analyses of the flu and other public health… Continue reading Urgent CDC Data on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth
The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert announced a list of 23 key problems to guide the next century of mathematical research. His problems not only provided a road map for the field but reflected a… Continue reading New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth
Immaculate Constellation UFO Program
Immaculate Constellation UFO Program < !- 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 MYS351: In November 2024, Congress held more UFO hearings, which revealed a secret government program called… Continue reading Immaculate Constellation UFO Program
How to Calm Your Election Anxiety—Even after Polls Close
Just about everybody is really worried about the U.S.’s Election Day, which is coming up on us fast. In a recent poll from the American Psychological Association, 72 percent of people said they were concerned that the results of the election could lead to violence. And 56 percent said it could end democracy in the… Continue reading How to Calm Your Election Anxiety—Even after Polls Close
A Weaponized FBI: It’s Real, Whistleblowers Testify, Boasting Scars to Prove It
Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.” Jeffrey Veltri: Accused of retaliation. LinkedIn But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant… Continue reading A Weaponized FBI: It’s Real, Whistleblowers Testify, Boasting Scars to Prove It
The Virus That Causes Mpox Keeps Getting Better at Spreading in People
November 1, 2024 5 min read The Virus That Causes Mpox Keeps Getting Better at Spreading in People Analysis of a strain of the virus circulating in Central Africa shows genetic mutations indicative of sustained human-to-human spread By Max Kozlov & Nature magazine Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (pink and yellow) found… Continue reading The Virus That Causes Mpox Keeps Getting Better at Spreading in People
Voting Has Never Been More Secure Than It Is Right Now
Now is the best time in the history of the U.S. to cast a vote. Yes, American elections have flaws. They’re marred by voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, the inherent weirdness of the electoral college and recent cases of ballot box arson. But the act of voting itself has been unfairly tarnished, most notably by former president… Continue reading Voting Has Never Been More Secure Than It Is Right Now
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
We scored likelihoods from the model using experimental tests of protein function. We found that if a base pair has high likelihood under Evo, then that base pair is likely to preserve or improve the protein’s function. But if that base pair has low likelihood, then putting that base pair into a protein sequence will… Continue reading The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics
But symmetries go beyond shape. Imagine you do an experiment, then you move 10 meters to the left and do it again. The results of the experiment don’t change, because the laws of physics don’t change from place to place. This is called translation symmetry. Now wait a few days and repeat your experiment again.… Continue reading How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics
Why Trump’s Anti-DEI Order Is Both Radical and Rooted in Civil Rights Law
Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, convened a panel of civil rights leaders last month to assail President Donald Trump’s executive order on “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity.” The so-called anti-DEI order, Morial claimed, was an effort to “reverse the gains of the last seventy years.” Marc Morial: His National Urban League… Continue reading Why Trump’s Anti-DEI Order Is Both Radical and Rooted in Civil Rights Law