Bubonic Plague Killing Yellowstone Lions
A nine-year study of cougars in Yellowstone National Park found that nearly half were infected with the plague-carrying bacteria Yersinia pestis at some point. Smithsonian. The Bubonic Plague came to America at the turn of the 19th Century with Chinese immigrants to California.
Foreign Pests Killing Our Forests
In many eastern US forests, over 25 percent of the trees that once existed are gone due to foreign invaders. Science (AAAS)
Builders Versus Destroyers
“We’ve taken the time to dissect Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budgets from the year before Obama left office all the way to the present. Trump can lie, but the numbers cannot. Obama left office with an unblemished record of building up the nation’s pandemic preparedness. Trump systematically sought to dismantle it.” Saint Louis Post Dispatch
The Real Story Behind Good Will Hunting
In 1939, while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig set up the plot for the movie Good Will Hunting" “Near the beginning of a class for which Dantzig was late, professor Jerzy Neyman wrote two examples of a famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. When Dantzig arrived, he assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. According to Dantzig, the problems ‘seemed to be a little harder than usual’, but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue. Six weeks later, Dantzig received a visit from an excited professor Neyman, who was eager to tell him that the homework problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.” Wikipedia
Try It With the Clorox Chaser
“For those given hydroxychloroquine, there was a 34 percent increase in risk of mortality and a 137 percent increased risk of a serious heart arrhythmias. For those receiving hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic — the cocktail endorsed by Trump — there was a 45 percent increased risk of death and a 411 percent increased risk of serious heart arrhythmias.” Washington Post
Cadaver Dogs Tell Archaeologists Where to Dig
"The dogs located four tombs new to the archaeologists. Dr. Glavaš had suspected that a fifth site might hold a burial chest, and the dogs’ alerts, combined with excavation, proved her suspicion correct. In September 2019, the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory published the results of their study: 'This research has demonstrated that HRD dogs are able to detect very small amounts of specific human decomposition odor as well as to indicate to considerably older burials than previously assumed,' Dr. Glavaš and Ms. Pintar wrote. Dr. Schoon, who researches and helps create protocols to train scent-detection animals worldwide, said the Iron Age necropolis study was nicely designed and 'really controlled.'” New York Times
A Million Mile Battery?
Elon Musk is many things (including a bit of a loon), but he's delivered a truly impressive array of technology, and if this "million mile battery" is true, it's going to be a massive game changer.Musk says it will bring down the cost of electric vehicles to the price point of gas engine cars and greatly improve the longevity of batteries. Reuters
Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
The malaria-blocking bug, Microsporidia MB, was discovered by studying mosquitoes on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. It lives in the gut and genitals of the insects. The researchers could not find a single mosquito carrying the Microsporidia that was harbouring the malaria parasite. BBC
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