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    <title>Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-26T02:58:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Pollen clouds shroud parts of US south-east as allergies spike</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:41:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A thick haze of yellow pollen has blanketed the sky across parts of the south-eastern US, with reports of spring allergy symptoms on the rise.

One particularly dense cloud of pollen was photographed in Raleigh, North Carolina.

A video of pollen erupting from a falling tree in Hixson, Tennessee, has been widely shared on social media.

The high pollen levels have brought on the traditional itchy, watery eyes and sneezing.

"In April in North Carolina we have an overlap for a couple weeks where we have pretty high counts of tree and then grass also gets started," Dr Heather Gutekunst, of Allergy Partners of Raleigh, told ABC11.

"So when we see that, if you are allergic to both, we tend to see an escalation in symptoms."]]></description>
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    <title>Analysis | There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T02:49:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/06/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-city-that-has-run-out-of-room/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And so, from an economist's point of view, there is no such thing as a full place. Especially not in America, where our neighborhoods, as urban planning professor Sonia Hirt puts it, are "astonishingly low density" compared to the rest of the industrialized world. Maybe your particular geology can't handle the foundation of a mile-high skyscraper. But, for the most part, we can always make choices to make more room, to build taller and denser, to upgrade schools and rethink roads to let more people in.

That we don't isn't a limitation of physics. It's a matter of politics disguised as physics.

"When people say a place is 'full,' to me it’s shorthand for they’re not willing to even entertain the challenges of what it would mean to redevelop the space," says George McCarthy, the president of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

"One of the things about being 'full' — or saying you’re 'full' — is the conclusion that the quality of life in the place will never be better than it is right now," he goes on. "That’s what people are really saying. They’re saying 'any change you make is going to require a sacrifice of one sort or another that we’re not willing to make.'"

By this logic, the latest person to move to San Francisco, or Portland, or even Detroit is always, miraculously, the last one to squeeze in before the gates must slam shut.

Says McCarthy: “This is the American mantra: I’m here, all development can stop.”]]></description>
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    <title>She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T23:14:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, report says</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T21:01:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world, a new scientific report indicates.

The federal government climate report also warns that changes are already evident in many parts of the country and are projected to intensify.

Canada's Arctic has seen the deepest impact and will continue to warm at more than double the global rate.

The report suggests that many of the effects already seen are probably irreversible.

Canada's annual average temperature has increased by an estimated 1.7C (3F) since 1948, when nationwide temperatures were first recorded.

The largest temperature increases have been seen in the North, the Prairies, and in northern British Columbia.

Annual average temperature in northern Canada increased by approximately 2.3C. ]]></description>
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    <title>People Kill People. But the Bullets Seem to Matter.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T22:45:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/27/upshot/deadly-bullets-guns.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[

In Boston from 2010 to 2015, there were 221 gun homicides.

Research suggests that one change could have lowered that number by 40 percent: smaller bullets.

A study last year, published in JAMA Network Open, examined the type of weapon used in every fatal and nonfatal shooting in the city. It found that — regardless of the time of day, the number of wounds or the circumstances of the crime — the size of the bullet affected which gunshot victims lived and which ones died.
]]></description>
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    <title>NASA’s Hubble spotted an asteroid spinning so fast it’s self-destructing</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T00:48:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bgr.com/2019/03/28/spinning-asteroid-debris-6478-gault/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As NASA explains in a new blog post, the asteroid is a relatively large asteroid measuring roughly 2.5 miles across. It’s far from Earth, sitting some 214 million miles from the Sun, and it’s gradually coming apart as it spins. The asteroid completes a full rotation approximately every two hours, which is fast enough to cause it to fling its own material off into space.

It’s definitely a cool sight, but the fact that the asteroid is slowly eroding is actually a boon for scientists who study such space rocks. As it sheds its material, researchers can study the trails it leaves behind to learn more about the makeup of the rock itself.

“We didn’t have to go to Gault,” Olivier Hainaut of the European Southern Observatory in Germany said in a statement. “We just had to look at the image of the streamers, and we can see all of the dust grains well-sorted by size. All the large grains (about the size of sand particles) are close to the object and the smallest grains (about the size of flour grains) are the farthest away because they are being pushed fastest by pressure from sunlight.”

As for why the rock is spinning, scientists think they have a pretty good idea. It’s a phenomenon known as the YORP effect, and it’s all thanks to the Sun. When sunlight strikes the asteroid and heats its surface it radiates some of that energy back into space, causing the asteroid to turn slightly. As the rock turns, the Sun’s rays continue to heat it Sun-facing side, giving it more rotational momentum and eventually resulting in a rapidly spinning asteroid.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nasa space science research astronomy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Oprah and Apple TV+: A New Place for Psuedoscience? | Rebecca Watson on Patreon</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-30T00:12:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.patreon.com/posts/oprah-and-apple-25726552</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This week, Apple held an event in which they revealed a new streaming service called Apple TV+. This wasn’t exactly groundbreaking news since most people already knew it was in the works, but there was a new tidbit (also known previously) that I had missed thus far. At the end of the keynote, they revealed a special guest star: Oprah Winfrey!

Now, I have an opinion of Oprah and that opinion has generally not changed over the past fifteen years, but I accept that what started out as an “unpopular opinion” has probably matured into an actual “toxic waste opinion” that no one wants to get within ten feet of. My opinion is this: Oprah is a terrible person who has given our society so many of its worst fads and, unfortunately, mainstays. Oprah is the reason we have the psychologist quack Dr. Phil, the all-around medical quack Dr. Oz, and she’s the reason anyone ever cared what Jenny McCarthy has to say about anything. She had McCarthy on her show first to talk about her child Evan was a “crystal child” and that Jenny herself was an “indigo child,” otherworldly beings who came to Earth to bring peace and light. Yes, really. And when Jenny changed her mind and decided Evan actually was autistic and that vaccines caused it, Oprah still had her on and promoted her.

Oprah promoted disgusting “psychics” who preyed on grieving people, like John Edward. She single-handedly introduced “The Secret” into the national conversation -- that’s the belief system that if you want anything you just have to believe you already have it, so the reason children die of cancer is because they didn’t wish hard enough to not have cancer.]]></description>
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    <title>Pence calls for NASA to send humans to the moon within five years</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-29T04:00:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/26/pence-calls-nasa-send-humans-moon-within-five-years/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Vice President Pence on Tuesday called for American astronauts to return to the lunar surface within five years, a bold and exceedingly difficult challenge that would push NASA to its limits.

In a fiery speech in Huntsville, Ala., Pence repeatedly said the space agency needs to act with a renewed sense of urgency to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972. And he cast the mission as part of a new space race against superpowers such as Russia and China, which landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon earlier this year.

But most of all, Pence said NASA and its major programs have been stifled by a crippling bureaucracy that prevented the agency from moving more boldly in human exploration.

“It's not just competition against our adversaries,” Pence said. “We're also racing against our worst enemy: complacency.”

Pence did not provide details on how the agency would achieve landing humans on the moon in the five-year time frame, a monumental goal NASA had been hoping to achieve by 2028. He provided no details on the cost or how the mission would unfold. He added that he had learned the details of NASA’s plans only five minutes before stepping onstage.

NASA did not immediately respond to a request for more details about the plan or how it would be funded.]]></description>
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    <title>Raw Vegan Influencer Busted Eating Meat | Rebecca Watson on Patreon</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-24T21:01:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.patreon.com/posts/raw-vegan-busted-25601284</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What’s not admirable is that for months, she continued to sell her “raw vegan lifestyle” to her followers, pretending that she was still on the diet. That’s right -- she was making money promoting the very diet that had made her so sick she had to seek medical attention. That is sociopathic. That is literally placing your own bank account over the health and welfare of thousands of people who look up to you. That makes Ayres a giant piece of shit. The public only found out about it when she went out to eat with other influencers and one livestreamed her plate of fish, and let me tell you, the look on her face needs to go in the Con Artists Getting Caught Hall of Fame.

Now, not only are people realizing she was selling them a bill of goods, but she’s made actual vegans look terrible. I’m not a vegan, but I am a vegan sympathizer because I know the science shows that by and large, you can be healthy on that diet if you take it seriously and pay attention to what you’re eating. But now people who hate vegans (of which there are many) will use this to say that veganism isn’t sustainable. It is. Raw veganism may not be, and it definitely isn’t sustainable when practiced by someone with more Instagram followers than brain cells. ]]></description>
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    <title>What Spring Looks Like from Space</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-22T18:59:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/what-spring-looks-like-from-space.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bees buzzing, flowers blooming and birds singing are some telltale signs that spring is upon us. But do you ever wonder what the season looks like from space?

This image from the Meteosat-9 satellite shows Earth on the vernal equinox, the official start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. This year, that day fell on Wednesday, March 20, as it did in this photograph taken in 2011.

The spring equinox is a point in Earth’s orbit where the sun shines directly above the Equator, creating nearly equal periods of daytime and nighttime across the globe.

“Only on the equinoxes do we get that exactly straight terminator,” said Greg Redfern, a solar system ambassador at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, referring to the line separating daylight from the darkness of night.

That line is continually shifting because Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees on its axis. “If the Earth didn’t have that tilt, we’d always have the straight-up-and-down terminator and we wouldn’t have seasons,” Mr. Redfern said.]]></description>
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    <title>Nearly all Americans fail to eat enough of this actual superfood</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-21T02:44:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/20/18214505/fiber-diet-weight-loss</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When we fret about the deterioration of the American diet, we tend to focus on the excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and calories we’re now eating.

What we don’t talk about: an important ingredient that’s gone missing as we’ve been filling our plates with more chicken and cheese.

Fiber. Only 5 percent of people in the US meet the Institute of Medicine’s recommended daily target of 25 grams for women and 38 grams for men. That amounts to a population-wide deficiency — what nutritionists call the “fiber gap.”

“People are so busy avoiding carbs, they forget that these foods give [them] important dietary components,” said nutritionist Julie Jones, of St. Catherine University.

Fiber is the closest thing we have to a true superfood — or super-nutrient since it’s a part of so many different foods. Eating a fiber-rich diet is associated with better gastrointestinal health and a reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol, obesity, type 2 diabetes, even some cancers. That’s because fiber is amazingly helpful in many ways: It slows the absorption of glucose — which evens out our blood sugar levels — and also lowers cholesterol and inflammation.

These benefits grow the more fiber people eat. In a recent Lancet review of 185 studies and 58 clinical trials, researchers found that if 1,000 people transitioned from a low-fiber diet (under 15 grams per day) to a high-fiber diet (25 to 29 grams per day), they’d prevent 13 deaths and six cases of heart disease.

If fiber were a drug, we’d be all over it. But the average American gets just 16 grams per day — half of what we should be eating.]]></description>
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    <title>Politician Who Fought Against Mandatory Chickenpox Vaccine Contracts Chickenpox | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-20T03:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/19/politician-who-fought-against-mandatory-chickenpox-vaccine-contracts-chickenpox/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Italian politician who has railed against mandatory vaccinations, including the one for chickenpox, had to spend four days in the hospital after contracting chickenpox.

So, yes. There might be a God after all.]]></description>
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    <title>Italy Bans Unvaccinated Kids from its Schools Amid Measles Outbreaks | David Gee | Friendly Atheist | Patheos</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-16T18:17:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/15/italy-bans-unvaccinated-kids-from-its-schools-amid-measles-outbreaks/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Italy has once again banned unvaccinated kids from its public schools, ending a relaxed vaccination rule that was previously imposed.]]></description>
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    <title>The stunning danger of smoking while pregnant</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-13T02:43:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260001/smoking-pregnant-sids-suid</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While many people know that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the US, it’s less appreciated that some of those deaths are newborn babies.

Researchers don’t fully understand why cigarettes increase the risk of infant death, but they think it has something to do with nicotine’s effect on brain regions that interfere with a baby’s sleeping and breathing patterns. Smoking is also known to restrict the blood flow that carries vital oxygen and nutrients between mom and baby.

When smoking kills, it can happen quickly. Roughly 3,600 babies in the US die suddenly every year for unknown reasons. The blanket term for these unexplained deaths is SUID, or sudden unexpected infant deaths, of which SIDS is the most well-known type.

In a new study in Pediatrics, researchers estimated that if expectant moms would just quit smoking, we could prevent 800 of those deaths.

For the paper, a collaboration between Microsoft and the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, researchers analyzed national vital statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 20 million US births and more than 19,000 cases of sudden infant death that occurred between 2007 and 2011. ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump budget seeks cuts in science funding</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-12T03:31:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/11/trump-budget-seeks-cuts-science-funding/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump’s third budget request, released Monday, again seeks cuts to a number of scientific and medical research enterprises, including a 13 percent cut to the National Science Foundation, a 12 percent cut at the National Institutes of Health and the termination of an Energy Department program that funds speculative technologies deemed too risky for private investors.

NIH would face a roughly $4.5 billion budget cut, according to an HHS document. Among the big losers, if Congress were to sign off on the budget request, would be the National Cancer Institute, dropping from $6.1 billion to $5.2 billion, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, going from $5.5 billion to $4.75 billion.

The administration is highlighting its request for $1.3 billion for opioid and pain research “as part of the government-wide effort to combat the opioid epidemic.”

The NSF, which funds roughly a quarter of all federally supported basic science and engineering research in the U.S., would see its budget fall from $8.1 billion this year to $7.1 billion in 2020.

NASA faces a modest cut — 2.3 percent lower than the agency’s 2019 funding, which was approved last month by Congress. The $21 billion for NASA is more than the Trump administration asked for last year, as administrator Jim Bridenstine pointed out Monday in a statement describing the FY2020 budget as “one of the strongest on record for our storied agency.” Bridenstine said the budget keeps NASA on track for putting humans on the moon again by 2028.

But the proposed NASA budget does not include money for a new space telescope, WFIRST, which would look for distant planets and study the mysterious “dark energy” permeating the cosmos. Two Earth science missions aimed at understanding climate would be eliminated, as would an educational effort, the Office of STEM Engagement.

The White House also sought to defer upgrades to NASA’s Space Launch System — a powerful new rocket that is still in development — and move some its proposed payloads to other vehicles.

The Trump budget proposes to eliminate three environmental programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Sea Grant, which supports environmental research on the coasts and in the Great Lakes; the National Coastal Zone Management grants, which provides incentives for states to restore and sustainably develop coastal resources; and the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, established by Congress 19 years ago to revive plummeting salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest.

The new budget request drew immediate criticism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “If enacted, the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the fiscal year 2020 non-defense discretionary budget would derail our nation’s science enterprise,” said AAAS chief executive Rush Holt, a physicist and former Democratic congressman.]]></description>
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    <title>How Breast Size Affects How Women Exercise</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-11T17:29:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/well/move/how-breast-size-affects-how-women-exercise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The results were consistent and rather worrying. As women’s breast sizes grew, their participation in physical activity declined, particularly if that exercise was vigorous. Few very-large-breasted women jogged, for example.

Many of the larger-breasted women also reported that they believed that their breast size prevented them from exercising easily, even in low-impact activities like walking or swimming.

These results remained the same when the researchers considered age, which affects exercise participation, and body mass index, which likewise affects how often we exercise. Over all, slimmer women tended to have smaller breasts and vice versa. But even among overweight women with small breasts and normal-weight women with large bosoms, the relationship to exercise was unchanged.

Women with larger breasts, whatever their B.M.I., exercised less on average than those with smaller ones and were more likely to feel that their breast size interfered with moving.

The upshot is that women should be encouraged to learn how to find and fit a high-quality sports bra or swimsuit with adequate breast support, says Celeste Coltman, now an assistant professor ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s Science Adviser Won’t Challenge Him on Climate Change Misinformation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-10T22:56:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/10/trumps-science-adviser-wont-challenge-him-on-climate-change-misinformation/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Droegemeier, 60, became director of the White House Office of Science and Technology in January. And there was little on the record about his specific views on climate change. But given his stellar reputation, scientists might expect him to act as a corrective to a president who regularly uses winter storms to mock climate change and erroneously suggests that global warming isn’t real.

    So when the news came in late February that the White House was putting together a panel to see if climate change is really a threat, even though the Defense Department has already said it is, and that this panel would be run by renowned physicist William Happer — who thinks carbon dioxide is “a benefit to the world” — it felt like an opportunity to delve a little deeper.

    But in an interview in his brand-new office next to the White House, Droegemeier evaded questions about his own views. He told VICE News he has no opinion on the president’s winter-storm tweets and has no plans to talk to him about them.

    “The main thing for me is to provide the president with the best science advice possible,” he said.]]></description>
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    <title>Canada cancels homeopathic foreign aid to Honduras - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T02:39:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47489008</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Canadian government will no longer fund homeopathic therapies in Honduras.

The move comes after an outcry about public funds going to support alternative therapies that have not been proven effective.

Terre Sans Frontières (TSF) had been given C$200,000 ($149,000, £114,000) over five years to provide homeopathy in the Central American country.

Around the world, alternative medicine charities modelled after Doctors Without Borders are still going strong.

The Quebec-based charity had been funded through Global Affairs' Volunteer Cooperation Program, which helps send skilled volunteers to developing countries.]]></description>
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    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/science/asteroids-nuclear-weapons.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Despite what Hollywood tells us, stopping an asteroid from creating an extinction-level event by blowing it up may not work.
In a simulation, material smashed away from an asteroid following a collision is attracted back to the object by its gravity.CreditBy Charles El Mir/johns Hopkins University

Faced with the prospect of a sizable asteroid heading toward Earth and causing doomsday, humanity has come up with various responses.

Hollywood may reckon that the best way to destroy an errant space rock is with nuclear weapons. This is rarely the preferred option of experts, but using some sort of spacecraft system to smash an asteroid into small, harmless pieces is seen as a real-world possibility. A new study, looking at a gigantic space rock-on-space rock clash, hints at how utterly ineffective this type of asteroid assassination attempt may be.

Using computer models, scientists simulated a 4,000-foot asteroid smashing into a 15.5-mile asteroid at 11,200 miles per hour. Immediately after colliding, the large asteroid cracked considerably, with debris flowing outward like a cascade of Ping-Pong balls. Despite some deep fractures, the heart of the asteroid was not comprehensively damaged.]]></description>
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    <title>MIT story on study about hipsters looking alike confirmed by man complaining about hipster photo - The Washington Post</title>
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    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/07/hipsters-all-look-same-man-inadvertently-confirms/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Getty Images completed its review Tuesday. Its response was decisive: Definitely just a model — a different bearded, beanie-wearing guy.

“Wow, I stand corrected,” the litigious bearded man wrote back to the Technology Review after learning his mistake this week.

“In other words,” Lichfield wrote in a widely shared Twitter thread Wednesday, “the guy who’d threatened to sue us for misusing his image wasn’t the one in the photo. He’d misidentified himself. All of which just proves the story we ran: Hipsters look so much alike that they can’t even tell themselves apart from each other.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
Wellington (New Zealand) Officials Are Wasting Taxpayer Money on Magic Sticks
By Hemant Mehta
March 7, 2019

The Wellington City Council in New Zealand is looking for water pipes that may be buried underground. But for some reason, and with taxpayer money, the company they contracted with is searching for the water with dowsing rods.

And if you don’t know what a dowsing rod is, then congratulations, you know just as much about them as so-called experts. In theory, the copper rods “work” by vibrating when the user is directly over water. No scientific study has ever shown these contraptions to work. ]]></description>
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    <title>How YOU Can Detect Earthquakes in Your Own Home! | Rebecca Watson on Patreon</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-08T03:04:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-you-can-in-25216202</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a state, California is basically guaranteed to experience a big (6.7 or higher) earthquake in the next 30 years. Scientists can’t really predict when an earthquake is going to happen, but they can examine historical data and geological surveys to tell us our relative chances over longer periods of time. The major faults of California are very well-studied, so we know that there’s about a 30% chance that the Big One is going to happen here in my neighborhood along the Hayward Fault, and a total 63% chance that it will happen along one of the many faults of the Bay Area. The predictions for Los Angeles are similar, but a little worse: they have a 67% chance that it’ll happen there, and they have a higher chance that it will be larger than 6.7 magnitude.

It’s not just California that geologists are studying, though. There’s a global network of seismological data that is constantly being updated, because our planet’s plates are constantly moving, rubbing up against each other, pushing together, and pulling apart. I use an app on my phone called QuakeFeed -- it’s free, this isn’t an ad -- and it shows me all of the most recent earthquakes recorded around the world.

Considering that I get alerts about earthquakes that happen literally in the middle of the Pacific Ocean without so much as a deserted island around, I was shocked recently to realize that there are quite large gaps in our understanding and monitoring of earthquakes around the world.

I recently stumbled across Raspberry Shake, and I found it absolutely delightful for a number of reasons. First of all, it’s a low-cost seismograph that is able to be used by an absolute amateur. Citizen science at its finest: they start at under $500 and we can put them anywhere, including in schools where kids can learn about seismology, geology, and technology. And then there’s the name -- it runs on the incredibly efficient Raspberry Pi processor, a simple, easy-to-use, tiny, and inexpensive computer. So they called it Raspberry Shake. Jeez, that’s adorable.]]></description>
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    <title>One More Time, With Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism</title>
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    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/measles-vaccine-autism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In emphatic language, the researchers, who followed 657,461 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010, stated in the Annals of Internal Medicine: “The study strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination.”

Denmark offers a national vaccination program that is free and voluntary. At regular intervals, a team led by Dr. Anders Hviid, who is with the department of epidemiology research at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, followed the children, 31,619 of whom remained unvaccinated.

The researchers further broke out subgroups of children according to other inoculations, and whether they had siblings with autism.

In time, 6,517 children received a diagnosis of autism. These researchers found no greater proportional incidence of the diagnosis between the vaccinated and unvaccinated children. This conclusion echoes a finding in their 2002 study of 537,303 Danish children, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description>
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    <title>H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-05T03:36:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html</link>
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    <title>SpaceX and NASA to Test Launch Crew Dragon, a New Ride to Orbit</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-04T01:11:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/science/spacex-launch-crew-dragon.html</link>
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    <title>Gateway Moon station: Canada joins Nasa space project</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-03T03:45:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47426798</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Canada will contribute US$1.4bn to a proposed Nasa space station that will orbit the Moon and act as a base to land astronauts on its surface. Prime Minister…]]></description>
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    <title>White House to set up panel to counter climate change consensus, officials say</title>
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    <title>FDA takes fresh look at whether opioids are effective for chronic pain</title>
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    <title>SpaceX just rocketed the first private mission to the moon — an Israeli lunar lander. Here's how to watch the launch.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-23T02:39:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-webcast-rocket-launch-israel-private-moon-mission-2019-2</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday night, and you can watch the event live on YouTube starting around 8:30 p.m. ET. The launch from Cape…]]></description>
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    <title>Scientists discover the origin of Stonehenge stones – quarries 180 miles away</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Stonehenge quarry, Carn Goedog. (University College London) A team of archaeologists in the United Kingdom says it has traced dozens of Stonehenge’s massive…]]></description>
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    <title>White House Panel Will Study Whether Climate Change Is a National Security Threat. It Includes a Climate Denialist.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-21T01:13:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[William Happer, a physicist serving as President Trump's deputy assistant for emerging technologies, has said carbon dioxide is beneficial to humanity. Credit…]]></description>
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    <title>Health Benefits of Tea? Here’s What the Evidence Says</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-06T19:38:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/upshot/what-the-evidence-tells-us-about-tea.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of all of this, I’m a little less impressed with the body of evidence regarding tea than I was with that of coffee. I admit that this is an interpretation, and others may disagree. The lack of a dose response in many of these trials, coupled with the fact that so many were performed in countries with markedly different tea consumption from our own, makes these results less generalizable than those of coffee were.

But the conclusions I would make are similar. I wouldn’t strongly recommend that anyone take up tea based on these findings. But there seem to be few harms, and some potential benefits. Drink it if you like it. It, too, seems to be a completely reasonable addition to a healthful diet.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/standing-desks-and-health/">
    <title>Standing desks and health | The Incidental Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-02T05:22:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/standing-desks-and-health/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve been standing at my workstation for several years, and there’s no way I’d go back to sitting all day. I’m much more comfortable standing (less back/neck/arm discomfort, resulting in a better mood). But that’s as close as I’d get to a health claim. I don’t think it’s making me fitter or adding years to my life. If you’re looking for a massive productivity or health boost from your standing desk, a 2014 systematic review may disappoint you.

It concludes that standing and treadmill desks probably offer some health value, more so for obese users, but the evidence isn’t strong and there are hedge words all over the conclusion (my emphasis):]]></description>
<dc:subject>health research science posture</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jtyost2/b:68fbe94bc647/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726">
    <title>Dairy, Supplements Do Little For Bones, Study Finds</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-30T21:23:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new study should put the final nail in the coffin for any lingering beliefs that calcium supplements are good for you.

The new study finds that people over 50 don't get stronger bones either by taking supplements or from eating extra servings of calcium-rich foods such as dairy products.

The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal's online publication BMJ.com, support what U.S. health officials have been telling Americans for a few years now — taking calcium supplements is not just a waste of time, but it could be harmful. The extra calcium doesn't go to strengthen bones but instead can build up in the arteries, causing heart disease, or in the kidneys, causing kidney stones.

Dr. Ian Reid of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and colleagues did what's called a meta-analysis —they gathered all the high-quality studies they could find from around the world to see what they showed.

Most of the studies showed people over 50 get no benefit at all from taking either calcium supplements or from eating calcium in food. People were just as likely to have a fracture. A few studies showed that people who took calcium supplements might have a lower risk, but they were not very clear.

The most powerful type of study, a randomized controlled trial, showed no differences.

"Dietary calcium intake is not associated with risk of fracture, and there is no clinical trial evidence that increasing calcium intake from dietary sources prevents fractures," they wrote. "Evidence that calcium supplements prevent fractures is weak and inconsistent."

In 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued new recommendations saying there's not enough evidence to recommend taking calcium or vitamin D supplements, and recommending against it in some cases.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science research health healthcare</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34342808">
    <title>Ignore Pope on climate, says Republican Marsha Blackburn - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-24T05:18:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34342808</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ms Blackburn declined to name the sources of her scepticism about mainstream science.
"We have met with different researchers," she says. "We had had numerous committee meetings in which we've had individuals come to present and from all of that and what we have been able to read you come to an opinion.
"There are some that feel like human activity is the cause for carbon emissions and because of that we need to revert to where we were in the 1870s for carbon emissions. I just choose to disagree with that."
Asked what scientific evidence would persuade her that climate change was a threat, she replied - "I don't think you will see me being persuaded."
Asked whether she accepted the theory of evolution she said: "No I do not."
Ms Blackburn's views matter because Republicans in Congress are trying to roll back President Obama's attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Professor Brian Hoskins, a leading climate scientist at the Royal Society said her remarks were "absolutely staggering".
"It is nonsense to say the world has cooled," Hoskins said. "If no evidence will persuade Ms Blackburn of climate change, that shows how well-founded her views are."]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate climatechange environment science research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21662365-scientists-are-developing-jab-might-only-need-be-given-once-lifetime-why-universal">
    <title>Why a &quot;universal&quot; flu vaccine may soon be a reality</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-09T03:29:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21662365-scientists-are-developing-jab-might-only-need-be-given-once-lifetime-why-universal</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But there are two big reasons to seek out a universal vaccine. One is the difficulty of matching the seasonal shot against circulating strains, given that mismatch can lead to thousands of excess deaths. The other, however, is that it a universal vaccine should significantly improve preparedness for a pandemic flu. In a pandemic flu the virus mutates so significantly that humans have little or no residual immunity to it. This can allow the virus to spread easily from person to person all around the world. The last flu pandemic, of H1N1, was in 2009. The Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta has estimated that the global death toll was more than 284,000. History is also replete with outbreaks of pandemic flu, some with far higher death tolls. (The so-called Spanish flu, a type of H1N1 which swept across the world in 1918-9, may have been responsible for between 50m and 100m people.) Many fear the next outbreak of pandemic influenza.

The good news is that even without a universal vaccine the world is better prepared than it has ever been for both seasonal and pandemic flu. Since 2006 the World Health Organisation has been working to help countries to improve their ability to protect citizens from pandemic disease. In that year it was only possible to produce 350m doses of vaccine. Since then, production capacity has been ramped up around the world, with many new manufacturers starting up in developing countries. The technology to produce vaccines in only three months is also widely available. In theory, were a new influenza pandemic to arise, manufacturers could now make 5.4 billion doses of pandemic vaccine. (The seasonal flu shot comprises three strains, while a pandemic flu would be only one strain thus allowing three times the quantity of pandemic vaccine to be produced.) With or without a universal vaccine the world is in a good position to meet the challenge of the next pandemic flu.]]></description>
<dc:subject>health healthcare research science vaccine</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-corn-the-worlds-most-important-food-crop/2015/07/12/78d86530-25a8-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html">
    <title>In defense of corn, the world’s most important food crop</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-08T00:33:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-corn-the-worlds-most-important-food-crop/2015/07/12/78d86530-25a8-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There’s a long list of things we ought to be doing to help address the problem of feeding a growing population. Some, like reducing food waste, are a clear win. Others, like buying organic, are more questionable. But the math on crop productivity is persuasive. If you eat a plant that yields twice the number of calories per acre, you halve the amount of land required to feed you. So, yes. Pass the polenta.]]></description>
<dc:subject>agriculture science research economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://infactorium.com/2014/11/13/that-shirt/">
    <title>That Shirt. | Infactorium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-31T03:37:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://infactorium.com/2014/11/13/that-shirt/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A senior scientist on the Rosetta/Philae mission (a stunning success, brilliant and audacious, thrilling!) decided to show up for work on perhaps the most important day of the mission, the most important day in spaceflight since Curiosity landed on Mars, wearing a crappy bowling shirt covered in cartoonish images of half-naked women. He further compounded this stupid decision by referring to the Rosetta mission with “She’s sexy, but I never said she was easy.”

I’m not going to condemn a man for owning an awful shirt with half-naked women on it. That’s his own business, and I couldn’t care less. But it shows a staggering lack of judgement, and callousness to what others might infer, to wear this shirt to work. At all. When grownups go to work, they should dress appropriately for work. And unless you work at a bowling alley/strip club, that shirt is almost certainly not appropriate. It is really not appropriate when you’re going to be on a worldwide live-stream meant to be dedicated to inspirational science and engineering.

Casually throwing around sexually charged language and imagery in a workplace that is not about sex is simply not appropriate behavior. For anyone. And yes, for some men this means losing a tiny measure of freedom. We lose the freedom to be horn-dog dipshits in the workplace, because we need the workplace to be a comfortable place for everyone. (And, while it seems far less common to me, yes, women are also not allowed to be horn-dog dipshits in the workplace.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism gender science culture politics discrimination</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-78ad1034521f">
    <title>Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind — The Message — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-31T00:52:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-78ad1034521f</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So what’s more interesting here isn’t the critique of chess. It’s the yawning cultural gap between the author and our own age — evinced in the behaviors we applaud and revere. Today, chess is regarded as a deeply virtuous activity, because it supposedly helps develop a Jedi-class control over one’s attention. But laser-like focus wasn’t always regarded as such a terrific thing. As my fellow Message writer Virginia Heffernan wrote a while ago, many people in the 19th century found deep powers of attention and focus kind of creepy and unhealthy. Go too far in that direction and you wind up like Ahab in Moby Dick: Focused, sure, but also a total obsessive. This is precisely the perspective from which this Scientific American author denounces chess. Too much focus, too much devotion and sitting down, can be bad for you. Who’s to say that’s not a healthier balance?]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture games psychology research politics history science chess</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html">
    <title>Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-28T02:28:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now, a painstaking yearslong effort to reproduce 100 studies published in three leading psychology journals has found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested. The analysis was done by research psychologists, many of whom volunteered their time to double-check what they considered important work. Their conclusions, reported Thursday in the journal Science, have confirmed the worst fears of scientists who have long worried that the field needed a strong correction.

The vetted studies were considered part of the core knowledge by which scientists understand the dynamics of personality, relationships, learning and memory. Therapists and educators rely on such findings to help guide decisions, and the fact that so many of the studies were called into question could sow doubt in the scientific underpinnings of their work.

“I think we knew or suspected that the literature had problems, but to see it so clearly, on such a large scale — it’s unprecedented,” said Jelte Wicherts, an associate professor in the department of methodology and statistics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

More than 60 of the studies did not hold up. Among them was one on free will. It found that participants who read a passage arguing that their behavior is predetermined were more likely than those who had not read the passage to cheat on a subsequent test.]]></description>
<dc:subject>research psychology statistics science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25448843">
    <title>A systematic review of standing and treadmill desks in the workplace. - PubMed - NCBI</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-26T03:37:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25448843</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Treadmill desks led to the greatest improvement in physiological outcomes including postprandial glucose, HDL cholesterol, and anthropometrics, while standing desk use was associated with few physiological changes. Standing and treadmill desks both showed mixed results for improving psychological well-being with little impact on work performance.]]></description>
<dc:subject>health science research healthcare statistics desk standingdesk exercise</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9186313/carly-fiorina-climate-wrong">
    <title>Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change. Everything she said was wrong.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-24T01:35:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9186313/carly-fiorina-climate-wrong</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fiorina’s comments reveal the difficulty facing moderate Republicans on this issue. They want to put the science question behind them, but they don’t seem to realize that once you acknowledge the science, you’re trapped on a slippery slope. You have to explain how the policies you support produce the kind of carbon reductions the science implies are needed.

If you refuse to offer any credible policies, you end up in a worse place than science denialists like Ted Cruz. You’ve angered the conservative base with your “climate political correctness,” but all everyone else has heard is that there’s a huge problem you have no plan to solve.

However smooth Fiorina may be, in the end it’s not going to make sense to voters to acknowledge the science of climate change and then say you’re against every solution to it except handing out subsidies to the coal industry. That is some unstable derp. If I had to predict, I’d say political pressure will be such that Fiorina will either be forced back into outright denialism or she’ll have to offer something less vaporous on the policy front. She won’t be able to stay where she is.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science climate climatechange energy economics economy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines/articles/2015/8/17/local-cases-overlooked-in-national-review-of-flawed-hair-evidence.html">
    <title>Local cases overlooked in national review of flawed hair evidence | Al Jazeera America</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-20T04:32:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines/articles/2015/8/17/local-cases-overlooked-in-national-review-of-flawed-hair-evidence.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The kinds of claims that the forensic examiner made at Bridges’ trial are now widely understood to be scientifically worthless. Since 1989, at least 74 Americans convicted in cases involving microscopic hair comparison have been exonerated by DNA testing.

In response to those exonerations, the Department of Justice is currently reviewing more than 2,500 criminal cases where testimony of a FBI hair analyst contributed to a conviction. It announced in April that in cases reviewed so far, FBI testimony was erroneous 95 percent of the time.  

Crucially, in federal cases with invalid testimony, the DOJ has agreed to waive procedural obstacles for defendants to appeal. But because the hair expert at Bridges’ trial worked for local law enforcement, the DOJ is not considering his case.  

Bridges’ conviction is one of thousands involving hair analysis by local or state examiners for which no systematic government review presently exists.

“The hair comparison audit must be extended to the states,” said M. Chris Fabricant, director of special litigation at The Innocence Project and one of Mr. Bridges’ attorneys. “The overwhelming majority of violent crimes are prosecuted by local prosecutors using local crime labs. Those violent crimes are where hair comparison evidence was most likely to be introduced.”

In 2013, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board published a memo urging state and local labs to review their hair analysis case files. Since then, two states, Texas and Massachusetts, have begun that process.]]></description>
<dc:subject>legal justice civilrights humanrights government police politics science research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/china-air-pollution-kills-4-000-people-a-day-researchers">
    <title>China Air Pollution Kills 4,000 People a Day: Researchers</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-17T05:41:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/china-air-pollution-kills-4-000-people-a-day-researchers</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Air pollution is killing an average of 4,000 people a day in China, according to researchers who cited coal-burning as the likely principal cause.

Deaths related to the main pollutant, tiny particles known as PM2.5s that can trigger heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer and asthma, total 1.6 million a year, or 17 percent of China’s mortality level, according to the study by Berkeley Earth, an independent research group funded largely by educational grants. It was published Thursday in the online peer-reviewed journal PLOS One from the Public Library of Science.

“When I was last in Beijing, pollution was at the hazardous level: Every hour of exposure reduced my life expectancy by 20 minutes,” Richard Muller, scientific director of Berkeley Earth and a co-author of the paper, said in an e-mail. “It’s as if every man, woman and child smoked 1.5 cigarettes each hour.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/10/the-science-of-skipping-breakfast-how-government-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-it-wrong/">
    <title>The science of skipping breakfast: How government nutritionists may have gotten it wrong</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-17T05:39:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/10/the-science-of-skipping-breakfast-how-government-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-it-wrong/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For some nutritionists, this idea is an article of faith. Indeed, it is enshrined in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal government’s advice book, which recommends having breakfast every day because “not eating breakfast has been associated with excess body weight.”

As with many nutrition tips, though, including some offered by the Dietary Guidelines, the tidbit about skipping breakfast is based on scientific speculation, not certainty, and indeed, it may be completely unfounded, as the experiment in New York indicated.

At 8:30 in the morning for four weeks, one group of subjects got oatmeal, another got frosted corn flakes and a third got nothing. And the only group to lose weight was … the group that skipped breakfast. Other trials, too, have similarly contradicted the federal advice, showing that skipping breakfast led to lower weight or no change at all.

“In overweight individuals, skipping breakfast daily for 4 weeks leads to a reduction in body weight,” the researchers from Columbia University concluded in a paper published last year.

A closer look at the way that government nutritionists adopted the breakfast warning for the Dietary Guidelines shows how loose scientific guesses — possibly right, possibly wrong — can be elevated into hard-and-fast federal nutrition rules that are broadcast throughout the United States.

This year, as the Dietary Guidelines are being updated, the credibility of its nutritional commandments has been called into question by a series of scientific disputes. Its advisory committee called for dropping the longstanding warning about dietary cholesterol, which had long plagued the egg industry; prominent studies contradicted the government warnings about the dangers of salt; and the government’s longstanding condemnation of foods rich in saturated fats seems simplistic, according to critics, given the ever more intricate understanding of the nutrition in fatty foods.

The Dietary Guidelines are important because they shape the contents of school lunches and other federally subsidized programs, and because amid widespread obesity, so many people look to them for sound eating advice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nutrition science research</dc:subject>
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    <title>Another health care fail, in ovarian cancer treatment. Best in the world, my ass. | The Incidental Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-05T04:14:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/another-health-care-fail-in-ovarian-cancer-treatment-best-in-the-world-my-ass/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We live in a world where financial incentives work and are employed liberally. But for so many things that matter, there are simply no ways to incentivize the right behavior. The system just isn’t build that way. No commercials will ever be run for this therapy. No company reps will ever push it. There will be no fancy meetings about it. No paid monographs. No lobbying by industry groups. And it costs docs financially to do it.

At some point, we will have to start addressing things like this. We can talk about “pay for performance” all we like, but we know the administrative data we measure aren’t looking for things like this. I can scream from this blog all day, but until we can stop fighting the old battles over health insurance and start to discuss how to reform the actual delivery of health care, I fear things aren’t going to get much better.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/warren-buffett-s-family-secretly-funded-a-birth-control-revolution">
    <title>Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-03T02:20:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/warren-buffett-s-family-secretly-funded-a-birth-control-revolution</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Buffetts’ strategies have been so successful in building the medical, policy, and market infrastructure for IUDs that even proponents have begun to worry enthusiasm has gone too far. While IUDs produce great results from a public health perspective—and, as the Choice study found, women tend to be happy with them—there are many reasons for a woman to choose other contraception, they say. She may like how the pill reduces her acne, how a condom protects against sexually transmitted diseases, or how she can simply stop using other methods, rather than having to go to a clinic to have an IUD removed.

Rachel Benson Gold, a longtime researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, which receives Buffett support, published a paper last summer arguing that policymakers need a “delicate balance” between making IUDs accessible and ensuring women aren’t coerced into using them, particularly since so many efforts target low-income women.

There are reasons Gold and others might be nervous. This March, a state legislator in Arkansas proposed a bill that would pay unwed, low-income mothers on Medicaid $2,500 to get an IUD. That echoes a not-so-distant controversy over the Norplant hormonal implant. After it hit the market in 1991, legislators in more than a dozen states introduced bills that would have pushed women into getting the implant as a condition of welfare, in lieu of jail time, or in exchange for cash. The Norplant inventor expressed horror that women could be coerced into using a contraceptive he’d designed to help them gain control of their own fertility—and future.

If more policymakers try to contort the effectiveness of IUDs into a tool for social engineering or make its use a condition for state support, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation may find itself needing to fund yet another battle—to ensure that a woman not only has access to an IUD, but that it is her choice to get one.]]></description>
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    <title>Successful Ebola vaccine provides 100% protection in trial</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-01T20:34:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/successful-ebola-vaccine-provides-100-protection-in-trial-1.18107</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An experimental Ebola vaccine seems to confer total protection against infection in people who are at high risk of contracting the virus, according to the preliminary results of a trial in Guinea that were announced today and published in The Lancet. They are the first evidence that a vaccine protects humans from Ebola infection.

“We believe the world is on the verge of an efficacious Ebola vaccine,” Marie-Paule Kieny, the World Health Organization’s assistant director-general for health systems and innovation, said during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, today.

The results also have implications for outbreak response in general. “This is illustrating that it is feasible to develop vaccines much faster than we’ve been doing,” says Adrian Hill, a vaccine scientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who is involved in testing a different Ebola vaccine. “We just need to go on and develop them and get on with them before outbreaks appear.”

An estimated 11,280 people have died during the current West African Ebola epidemic, according to WHO data as of 30 July.]]></description>
<dc:subject>vaccine health safety ebola science research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.juancole.com/2015/07/hotter-since-records.html">
    <title>The Earth is hotter this Year than any since Records began</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-24T02:48:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.juancole.com/2015/07/hotter-since-records.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[According to new data released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Tuesday, globally averaged temperatures over ocean and land surfaces between January and June of 2015 were the hottest on record since 1880.

A statement by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) revealed on Jul. 21 that “the average temperature for the six-month period was 0.85°C (1.53°F) above the 20th century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F), surpassing the previous record set in 2010 by 0.09°C (0.16°F).”

Average global sea surface temperatures for the January-June 2015 period outstripped the previous record in 2010 by 0.04°C (0.07°F).

Land surface temperatures also hit record levels, surpassing the previous 2007 high by 0.13°C (0.23°F), according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The average land surface temperature from January to June was +1.40°C (2.52°F).]]></description>
<dc:subject>science research climate climatechange 2015 statistics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Robotic surgery linked to 144 deaths in the US - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-22T03:02:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33609495</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A study into the safety of surgical robots has linked the machines' use to at least 144 deaths and more than 1,000 injuries over a 14-year period in the US.
The events included broken instruments falling into patients' bodies, electrical sparks causing tissue burns and system errors making surgery take longer than planned.
The report notes that the figures represent a small proportion of the total number of robotic procedures.
But it calls for fresh safety measures.
"Despite widespread adoption of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery, a non-negligible number of technical difficulties and complications are still being experienced during procedures," the study states.
"Adoption of advanced techniques in design and operation of robotic surgical systems may reduce these preventable incidents in the future."
Robotic surgery can reduce the risk of infections and help patients heal more quickly.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science research health healthcare</dc:subject>
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    <title>AEAweb: AEJ: Applied (7,3) p. 28 - Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-28T23:44:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/app.20120359</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in location of birth, we exploit the exogenous variation in distance from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel contributing to these health gains.]]></description>
<dc:subject>health healthcare research science statistics pregnancy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33126885#&quot;">
    <title>Philae comet lander wakes up, says European Space Agency - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-15T00:24:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33126885#&quot;</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth.
Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November.
It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat.
The comet has since moved nearer to the Sun and Philae has enough power to work again, says the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos.
An account linked to the probe tweeted the message, "Hello Earth! Can you hear me?"
On its blog, Esa said Philae had contacted Earth, via Rosetta, for 85 seconds on Saturday in the first contact since going into hibernation in November.]]></description>
<dc:subject>esa space science research technology philae</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cosmic superlens gives telescopes a boost</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-07T19:48:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cosmic-superlens-gives-telescopes-boost</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Abell 2744 (below) is a galaxy cluster whose tremendous mass — equivalent to 2 quadrillion suns — turns it into a gravitational lens that bends and magnifies light from distant objects. This effect allows astronomers to peer farther into space than any telescope can do alone. By studying images of far-flung galaxies revealed by Abell 2744, researchers created a map (above) that charts how the cosmic lens manipulates light from the far side of the universe.

The map spans just over 3 million light-years on a side. Areas in red magnify light most strongly, up to 30 times; blue regions introduce less amplification. Gray contours trace the directions along which images of remote galaxies are elongated. Since the lensing ability depends on the cluster’s mass, the map also charts the distribution of stars, gas and invisible dark matter, physicist Xin Wang of the University of California, Santa Barbara and colleagues report online April 9 at arXiv.org.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science physics research astronomy</dc:subject>
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    <title>More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-11T16:03:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/more-consensus-on-coffees-benefits-than-you-might-think.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That may change soon. The newest scientific report for the U.S.D.A. nutritional guidelines, which I’ve discussed before, says that coffee is not only O.K. — it agrees that it might be good for you. This was the first time the dietary guideline advisory committee reviewed the effects of coffee on health.

There’s always a danger in going too far in the other direction. I’m not suggesting that we start serving coffee to little kids. Caffeine still has a number of effects parents might want to avoid for their children. Guidelines also suggest that pregnant women not drink more than two cups a day.

I’m also not suggesting that people start drinking coffee by the gallon. Too much of anything can be bad. Finally, while the coffee may be healthy, that’s not necessarily true of the added sugar and fat that many people put into coffee-based beverages.

But it’s way past time that we stopped viewing coffee as something we all need to cut back on. It’s a completely reasonable addition to a healthy diet, with more potential benefits seen in research than almost any other beverage we’re consuming. It’s time we started treating it as such.]]></description>
<dc:subject>coffee science health nutrition research</dc:subject>
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    <title>Giving the Poor Easy Access to Healthy Food Doesn’t Mean They’ll Buy It</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-10T00:26:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/upshot/giving-the-poor-easy-access-to-healthy-food-doesnt-mean-theyll-buy-it.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The work adds to a growing body of evidence that merely fixing food deserts will not do nearly as much to improve the health of poor neighborhoods as policy makers had hoped. It seems intuitive that a lack of nearby healthy food can contribute to a poor diet. But merely adding a grocery store to a poor neighborhood, it appears, doesn’t make a very big difference. The cost of food — and people’s habits of shopping and eating — appear to be much more powerful than just convenience.

Another study, published this week as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, looked across the country and found that no more than a tenth of the variation in the food people bought could be explained by the availability of a nearby grocery store. The education level of the shoppers, for example, was far more predictive. “If you were going to put all Americans in the same retail environment, you’d end up only dealing with 10 percent of this disparity between college-educated and high-school-educated households,” said Jessie Handbury, an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an author of the paper.

Tackling the problem of food deserts has been embraced by the federal government and many local governments. The federal government’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative has handed out more than $500 million in recent years to help encourage grocery stores to locate in places they had avoided. Many states and cities — like New York — have their own programs, aimed at getting more grocery stores and farmer’s markets into poor neighborhoods where the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables is low and obesity rates tend to be high.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nutrition health research economics science</dc:subject>
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    <title>The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-07T05:17:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/gop-war-on-science-gets-worse</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cutting NASA and the N.S.F.’s climate-science budgets isn’t going to alter the basic realities of climate change. No one needs an advanced degree to understand this. Indeed, the idea that ignoring a problem isn’t going to make it go away is one that kids should grasp by the time they’re six or seven. But ignoring a problem does often make it more difficult to solve. And that, you have to assume, in a perverse way, is the goal here. What we don’t know, we can’t act on.

“It’s hard to believe that in order to serve an ideological agenda, the majority is willing to slash the science that helps us have a better understanding of our home planet,” Representative Johnson wrote. Hard to believe, but, unfortunately, true.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science research politics government congress usa nasa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32530334">
    <title>US 'will not fund research for modifying embryo DNA' - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-01T00:26:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32530334</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Modifying the DNA of embryos is a "line that should not be crossed", a leading figure in US research says.
Dr Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health director, was responding to reports that the first embryos had been modified in China.
He argued there were "serious and unquantifiable safety issues", big ethical questions and no compelling medical reason to do it.
He said the NIH would not fund such research in the US.
The advent of "Crispr technology" - which is a more precise way of editing DNA than anything that has come before - has spurred huge progress in genetics.
But there had been growing concern these tremendous advances were making the modification of human embryos more likely.
Dr Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning, told the BBC News website in January that designer babies were no longer "HG Wells" territory.
Concerns were also raised in the journal Nature as rumours circulated that it had already taken place.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science research ethics politics government</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32525180">
    <title>California sets tough new targets to cut emissions - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-30T02:38:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32525180</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[California has stepped up its attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting tough new targets for 2030.
Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order to bring down emissions to 40% below 1990 levels, in the next 15 years.
The US state was already one of the most ambitious in its previous targets and has forced companies to pay for their carbon pollution.
Mr Brown said the new target must be met for the sake of future generations.
He called the plan "the most aggressive benchmark enacted by any government in North America to reduce dangerous carbon emissions".
There were few details about how he intends to meet this target, but the governor has previously talked about increasing renewable electricity sources, reducing petrol use in vehicles and improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings.
Mr Brown mentioned by name some sectors that will have to reduce emissions - industry, agriculture and energy, plus state and local governments.
"With this order, California sets a very high bar for itself and other states and nations, but it's one that must be reached - for this generation and generations to come,'' he said in a statement.
California is the second-biggest producer of carbon dioxide through fossil fuels among US states.]]></description>
<dc:subject>california climate climatechange science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-27/economists-need-to-give-up-on-overused-signaling-fad">
    <title>Does Everything You Do Send an Economic Signal?</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-29T02:49:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-27/economists-need-to-give-up-on-overused-signaling-fad</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But the “signaling” meme has spread beyond the idea of education. It’s become fashionable in the economics world to label any and every human social interaction as a form of signaling. The most enthusiastic promoter of this way of thinking is GMU economist Robin Hanson. Fashion isn’t self-expression -- it’s signaling. Leisure isn’t about fun -- it’s about signaling. And so on.

The problem is, this notion of “signaling” isn't really what Spence had in mind. Spence’s signaling model was about proving yourself by doing something difficult -- something so difficult that someone who didn’t have what it takes wouldn't even bother. But most of what Hanson is talking about is just communication, not Spence-style signaling. Even if hipsters wax their moustaches in order to prove their hip-ness, that doesn’t mean there are a whole bunch of wannabe hipsters out there who just didn’t have what it takes to wax their moustaches. Communication, like signaling, is costly. But it’s not a matter of jumping through hoops to prove yourself.

So let’s give the signaling fad a rest. Spence’s theory was brilliant and cool. But casually applying it to anything and everything doesn’t yield much additional benefit.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics research science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/vsps-versus-mses/">
    <title>VSPs versus MSEs</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-29T01:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/vsps-versus-mses/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So it’s important, I think, to understand that this isn’t at all right. On questions of stimulus and austerity, in particular, what the VSPs think they know is quite at odds with mainstream economics. In the US, all the important people know that the Obama stimulus failed, while almost all mainstream economists believe — based on actual evidence — that it succeeded. In the UK, all the important people know that austerity boosted the economy, while only a small minority of mainstream economists agrees.

Needless to say, mainstream economists could be wrong. They certainly have been in the past — very few, for example, took seriously the possibility of a financial panic in the modern world. But on the whole the MSEs have been bastions of good sense these past seven years or so as compared with the political world, and understandably so: while heterodox economic ideas sometimes do turn out right, finance ministers are the last group of people you want picking and choosing which new working paper should be the basis of policy.

So by all means let’s keep an open mind about new ideas. But we should bear in mind that the world would be in much better shape right now if economic orthodoxy had in fact been followed. In practice, all the heterodoxy with any real-world influence has been used by politicians to justify policies that have deeped the slump and increased suffering.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics research politics science</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/on-food-labels-calorie-miscounts/">
    <title>On Food Labels, Calorie Miscounts</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-29T01:39:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/on-food-labels-calorie-miscounts/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The method most commonly used to assess the number of calories in foods is flawed, overestimating the energy provided to the body by proteins, nuts and foods high in fiber by as much as 25 percent, some nutrition experts say.

“The amount of calories a person gets from protein and fiber are overstated,” said Geoffrey Livesey, the head of Independent Nutrition Logic, a nutrition consulting company in Britain, and a nutrition consultant to the United Nations. “This is especially misleading for those on a high-protein, high-fiber diet, or for diabetics” who must limit their intake of carbohydrates.

An adult aiming to take in 2,000 calories a day on a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may actually be consuming several hundred calories less, he and other experts said. Calorie estimates for junk foods, particularly processed carbohydrates, are more accurate.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nutrition science research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2015/4/28/8506953/solar-photovoltaic-future">
    <title>A solar future isn't just likely — it's inevitable - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-29T00:05:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2015/4/28/8506953/solar-photovoltaic-future</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is all sci-fi for now, I realize, about changes that will certainly take many decades to unfold. But the changes follow inexorably from the logic of PV. As research, development, and deployment continue, as solar PV and storage become more integrated and omnipresent, they will fill the cracks left empty by a flawed and unjust global energy system. And from there, they will seep up and out, displacing dirty combustion, creating new models and energy services along the way.

It will be a long, fraught process. Any number of things could make a mockery of my prediction. Nuclear fusion or (just as likely) Tony Stark's arc reactor could render the conversation moot. A meteor could hit. Humanity could decide to abandon Earth for other planets. Whatever.

But if energy keeps evolving roughly along the paths that are visible now, the unique properties of solar PV will eventually propel it to dominance. We will find that in energy, as in so many other human systems, distributed power works better, to more people's advantage, than the concentrated kind.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science technology solar energy research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/in-atomic-labs-across-us-a-race-to-stop-iran.html?_r=0">
    <title>Atomic Labs Across the U.S. Race to Stop Iran</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-28T02:24:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/in-atomic-labs-across-us-a-race-to-stop-iran.html?_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When diplomats at the Iran talks in Switzerland pummeled Department of Energy scientists with difficult technical questions — like how to keep Iran’s nuclear plants open but ensure that the country was still a year away from building a bomb — the scientists at times turned to a secret replica of Iran’s nuclear facilities built deep in the forests of Tennessee.

There inside a gleaming plant at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation were giant centrifuges — some surrendered more than a decade ago by Libya, others built since — that helped the scientists come up with what they told President Obama were the “best reasonable” estimates of Iran’s real-life ability to race for a weapon under different scenarios.

“We know a lot more about Iranian centrifuges than we would otherwise,” said a senior nuclear specialist familiar with the forested site and its covert operations.

The classified replica is but one part of an extensive crash program within the nation’s nine atomic laboratories — Oak Ridge, Los Alamos and Livermore among them — to block Iran’s nuclear progress. As the next round of talks begins on Wednesday in Vienna, the secretive effort remains a technological obsession for thousands of lab employees living the Manhattan Project in reverse. Instead of building a bomb, as their predecessors did in a race to end World War II, they are trying to stop one.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2015/4/27/8505167/chipotle-GMOs">
    <title>Chipotle will stop serving GMO foods — despite zero evidence they're harmful to eat - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-28T00:44:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2015/4/27/8505167/chipotle-GMOs</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Monday, Chipotle announced that it has finally accomplished something no other national restaurant chain has done — it has stopped serving foods made directly from genetically modified ingredients.

To be clear, people who eat at Chipotle will gain no health benefits whatsoever from this move. Zero. Numerous scientific studies have concluded that the GMO crops currently on the market are just as safe to eat as conventional crops. There's a very clear scientific consensus on this question.

Still, Chipotle is responding to a growing fraction of the public that is strongly opposed to GMOs. Sometimes these opponents raise fair concerns, say, about the environmental impacts of overusing herbicide-tolerant crops (see here for more on this debate). Unfortunately, there's also a loud contingent of activists who have managed to spread utter nonsense about the supposed health dangers of eating GMOs — like the increasingly popular "Food Babe." And that pseudoscientific message appears to be catching on.]]></description>
<dc:subject>gmo science health nutrition</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/f-d-a-warns-supplement-makers-of-bmpea-stimulant-dangers/">
    <title>F.D.A. Warns Supplement Makers of Stimulant Dangers</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-27T01:49:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/f-d-a-warns-supplement-makers-of-bmpea-stimulant-dangers/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration sent letters to the makers of eight dietary supplements on Thursday warning them that their products contain a synthetic, amphetaminelike stimulant that medical experts say is potentially dangerous. The agency’s actions came after weeks of pressure from at least three United States senators and a team of researchers led by an expert at Harvard Medical School, all of whom urged the F.D.A. to take steps to remove the stimulant — known as BMPEA — from the market.

The F.D.A. discovered the chemical in products in 2013, when it tested 21 workout and weight loss supplements that listed among their ingredients an obscure plant called acacia rigidula. The agency found that nine of these products contained BMPEA, but it did not release the names of the supplements or warn consumers about the risk.

Two weeks ago, a group led by Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, published a study identifying BMPEA in 11 of 21 supplements that mentioned acacia rigidula as one of their ingredients. Dr. Cohen said that companies were spiking their products with the stimulant and then hiding it under the name of a rare plant to create the appearance that the chemical was a natural botanical extract.

Dr. Cohen and other experts said that BMPEA was not a legitimate dietary ingredient, and they urged the F.D.A. to follow the Canadian government, which called BMPEA “a serious health risk” in December and pulled supplements that contain it from store shelves.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science fda legal health safety nutrition</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378">
    <title>Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-27T01:46:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a world first, Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published in the online journal Protein & Cell and confirm widespread rumours that such experiments had been conducted — rumours that sparked a high-profile debatelast month about the ethical implications of such work.

In the paper, researchers led by Junjiu Huang, a gene-function researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, tried to head off such concerns by using ‘non-viable’ embryos, which cannot result in a live birth, that were obtained from local fertility clinics. The team attempted to modify the gene responsible for β-thalassaemia, a potentially fatal blood disorder, using a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9. The researchers say that their results reveal serious obstacles to using the method in medical applications.

“I believe this is the first report of CRISPR/Cas9 applied to human pre-implantation embryos and as such the study is a landmark, as well as a cautionary tale,” says George Daley, a stem-cell biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. “Their study should be a stern warning to any practitioner who thinks the technology is ready for testing to eradicate disease genes.”

Some say that gene editing in embryos could have a bright future because it could eradicate devastating genetic diseases before a baby is born. Others say that such work crosses an ethical line: researchers warned in Nature2 in March that because the genetic changes to embryos, known as germline modification, are heritable, they could have an unpredictable effect on future generations. Researchers have also expressed concerns that any gene-editing research on human embryos could be a slippery slope towards unsafe or unethical uses of the technique.

The paper by Huang’s team looks set to reignite the debate on human-embryo editing — and there are reports that other groups in China are also experimenting on human embryos.]]></description>
<dc:subject>china science genetics research technology ethics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/cheaper-cancer-tests-carry-risks-as-well-as-benefits/">
    <title>Cheaper Cancer Tests Carry Risks As Well As Benefits</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-26T00:53:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/cheaper-cancer-tests-carry-risks-as-well-as-benefits/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For many women, the risk of a false positive mammogram test outweighs the benefits of screening. A false BRCA result could have even more invasive consequences if a woman chooses to have a prophylactic mastectomy or other surgical interventions.

The benefits that do result from increased BRCA screening won’t just accrue to women like Jolie. Testing can help women from high-risk families who receive negative BRCA tests and can therefore reduce screening, reducing the risk of false positives and unnecessary treatment. A 2008 study of women from families with BRCA mutations who did not carry the mutation themselves found that these BRCA-negative women had essentially the same risk of cancer as women from families without mutations and should be screened in the same way.

Unfortunately, Color Genomics’s low price for BRCA testing is likely to be most attractive for women who are in least need of genetic screening. Under the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” BRCA tests are classified as preventive care for women with a family history of breast, ovarian, tubal or peritoneal cancer and must be fully paid for by insurers. Only women who are not at risk or women who don’t know they have a cheaper option are likely to choose Color Genomics’s services.

Opting in to unnecessary cancer screening is likely to be costly to consumers, however low the price of the test itself.]]></description>
<dc:subject>research statistics science health healthcare cancer</dc:subject>
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    <title>This Has Been the Hottest Start to a Year on Record</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-18T19:20:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-04-17/this-has-been-the-hottest-start-to-a-year-on-record</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It just keeps getting hotter. 

March was the hottest month on record, and the past three months were the warmest start to a year on record, according to new data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It’s a continuation of trends that made 2014 the most blistering year for the surface of the planet, in to records going back to 1880. 

The animation below shows the Earth’s warming climate, recorded in monthly measurements from land and sea over more than 135 years. Temperatures are displayed in degrees above or below the 20th-century average. Thirteen of the 14 hottest years are in the 21st century, and 2015 is on track to break the heat record again. ]]></description>
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