The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, has less than two months of drinking water after a massive wildfire contaminated a river the town pulls from, according to local news KOAT 7. Not to be confused with Las Vegas, Nevada, the 13,000-person city in San Miguel County relies solely on the now contaminated Gallinas River, which… Continue reading ‘No Immediate Solution’ As New Mexico Town Has Only 50 Days Of Drinking Water Left
Electric Car Drivers: Why You Might Not Be Pumped Over Privacy-Jolting Mileage Taxes
The environmental impact of electric cars may still be unknown, but leaders are growing concerned about the threat they pose to the financing of the nation’s highway system. Because freeways and bridges are funded, in large part, through federal and state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, the battery-powered future will test whether roads can… Continue reading Electric Car Drivers: Why You Might Not Be Pumped Over Privacy-Jolting Mileage Taxes
How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve
Recently, Li and his colleagues used their method to characterize sporopollenin from more than 100 diverse land plant species collected from botanic gardens around the northeastern United States. According to Li, who is preparing to submit the results of the study for publication, the structure of sporopollenin varies across plant types in a curious pattern.… Continue reading How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve
Is Pro-Life Now Hate Speech?
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on a shift in the rhetoric in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. From politicians to pundits, pro-life positions are being treated as virtual hate speech. The demonization of those with pro-life views is meant to cut off any debate on the basis… Continue reading Is Pro-Life Now Hate Speech?
Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise
In just 17 years messenger RNA therapies have gone from proof of concept to global salvation. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for COVID-19 have been given to hundreds of millions of people, saving countless lives. In 2005 Katalin Karikó and I created a way to make mRNA molecules that would not cause dangerous inflammation when… Continue reading Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise
The Thirteenth Amendment Doesn’t Provide Basis for National Abortion Protection
After Dobbs, where can pro-choice advocates look in the Constitution to support abortion? One professor believes she has found the answer in the Thirteenth Amendment, the provision banning slavery that was ratified in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Lisa Crooms-Robinson, a professor at Howard University School of Law, reasons out of a wish… Continue reading The Thirteenth Amendment Doesn’t Provide Basis for National Abortion Protection
Exorcist Diary: The 3 Rs for Casting Out Demons
“He turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan!’” Mt 16:23 After a recent online deliverance session with us, a woman shared her experience: I’ve been able to attend most of the sessions and have found that with each successive one, I have been increasingly able to gain spiritual healing. For many years, I have… Continue reading Exorcist Diary: The 3 Rs for Casting Out Demons
These Are The World’s Top 10 Restaurants In 2022
This year’s edition of ‘The World’s 50 Best Restaurants‘ by publishing group William Reed Business Media has just been released. As Statista’s Anna Fleck notes, the ranking is one of the most highly anticipated events of the culinary calendar. The so-called “Oscars of gastronomy” have named the Danish restaurant Geranium as the top restaurant in… Continue reading These Are The World’s Top 10 Restaurants In 2022
The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
The prints are also helping us to distinguish different types of substructures. For instance, if you’re looking at a filament in two spatial dimensions, it might actually be a two-dimensional sheet that you’re just looking at on its side. And that’s hard to make out in a flat picture — or even a computer simulation.… Continue reading The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
Stock Market Overview – August 1, 2022
Following Thursday’s GDP print of -0.9%, the US is in a recession by the standard definition of two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. The stock market, however, is unbothered, rallying on the news. The “official” forecasts for Q2 GDP were -0.5%, while it came in at -0.9%. That the market rallied on this tells me… Continue reading Stock Market Overview – August 1, 2022