… Not sure how.

But feel free to use it. You can.

The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent
Popular Science | Sep 5, 2024 | Lauren Leffer

… sometimes science is just stranger than fiction. A food dye that helps give certain sodas and snacks their hallmark orange hue renders mouse skin almost completely see-through in a reversible, potentially non-toxic research method that could transform medical and scientific imaging. Because of a counterintuitive fundamental physics principle, Tartrazine, also known as Yellow 5, can temporarily turn biological tissue transparent to the naked eye, as described in a study published September 5 in the journal Science.

There! A transparent mouse!

They just discovered it? It lifts up the sky? Helps drive the majority of weather patterns across the globe? So everything is settled now?

NASA makes discovery ‘as important as gravity’ about Earth
the telegram via msn | 8/29/24 | Sarah Knapton

A new planet-wide electric field that is as fundamental to Earth as gravity has been discovered in a major scientific breakthrough.

The ambipolar electric field, which begins 150 miles above the planet, has been described as a “great invisible force” that lifts up the sky and is responsible for the polar winds.

The polar winds interact with the jet streams to help drive the majority of weather patterns across the globe.

Until now, the field had only been theorised, but a NASA team, which includes scientists from the University of Leicester, has now sent a rocket into the field and measured it for the first time.

Leicester? Say no more!

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Solar winds

Polar winds

Breaking: those high roller winds.

Drain the bottles, hoary models

Now consigned to rubbish bins.

Food and exercise can treat depression as well as a psychologist, our study found. And it’s cheaper.
Medical Xpress / The Conversation / The Lancet | Aug. 3, 2024 | Adrienne O’Neil and Sophie Mahoney

Our world-first trial…

Or first-world trial?

…shows improving diet and doing more physical activity can be as effective as therapy with a psychologist for treating low-grade depression.

Our trial targeted people with elevated distress, meaning at least mild depression but not necessarily a diagnosed mental disorder. Typical symptoms included feeling down, hopeless, irritable or tearful.

In other words, voters.

We partnered with our local mental health service to recruit 182 adults and provided group-based sessions on Zoom.

Zoom being group-based by definition.

All participants took part in up to six sessions over eight weeks, facilitated by health professionals.

Half were randomly assigned to participate in a program co-facilitated by an accredited practicing dietitian and an exercise physiologist. That group—called the lifestyle program—developed nutrition and movement goals:

– eating a wide variety of foods – choosing high-fiber plant foods – including high-quality fats…

Such as bacon?

– limiting discretionary foods,…

Such as bacon.

… such as those high in saturated fats and added sugars – doing enjoyable physical activity.

Mmmm . . .

The second group took part in psychotherapy sessions convened by two psychologists. The psychotherapy program used cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the gold standard for treating depression in groups and when delivered remotely.

In both groups, participants could continue existing treatments (such as taking antidepressant medication).

We found similar results in each program.

Over eight weeks, those scores showed symptoms of depression reduced for participants in the lifestyle program (42%) and the psychotherapy program (37%).

There were some differences between groups. People in the lifestyle program improved their diet, while those in the psychotherapy program felt they had increased their social support—meaning how connected they felt to other people—compared to at the start of the treatment.

There was also not much difference in cost. The lifestyle program was slightly cheaper to deliver: A$482 per participant, versus $503 for psychotherapy.

Over what period of time? Per session? That’s a hell of an expensive meal. Over two months? That’s a hell of a cheap psychotherapist.

Aw, the heck with it — just get a 40-Hz gamma machine.

Study reveals ways in which 40Hz sensory stimulation may preserve brain’s ‘white matter’
Medical Xpress / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Nature Communications | Aug. 8, 2024 | Daniela Rodrigues-Amorim et al.

Early-stage trials in Alzheimer’s disease patients and studies in mouse models of the disease have suggested positive impacts on pathology and symptoms from exposure to light and sound presented at the gamma band frequency of 40 Hz.

A new study zeroes in on how 40Hz sensory stimulation helps to sustain an essential process in which the signal-sending branches of neurons, called axons, are wrapped in a fatty insulation called myelin. Often called the brain’s “white matter,” myelin protects axons and insures better electrical signal transmission in brain circuits.

Said Li-Huei Tsai,”This study shows that it’s not just gray matter, but also white matter that’s protected by this method.”

Li-Huei, Li-Huei, oh

Me gotta go

I say-a Li-Huei, Li-Huei

Me gotta go now…

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Obviously too late for me, but I expect someone could use this therapy. White Matter Lives!

A dog — a cute Lhasa Apso, if I remember correctly — came up with the theory of relativity, which Einstein stole.

The question before the court is: should it be a crime to propagate such a statement?

Britain says yes. What does America say?

Is the author’s name a joke name? Like Biggus Dickus?

Not Having Enough Sex May Have Deadly Consequences
IFL Science | July 29, 2024 | Holly Large

Women who have sex less than once a week may be more likely to die early than those who engage in more regular intercourse, according to the results of a new study. While this same impact was not observed in men, the researchers did note that more frequent sex reduces the chances of an early grave in both men and women with depression.

“Sexual activity is important for overall cardiovascular health possibly due to reduction of heart rate variability and blood flow increase,” write the authors. “Using findings from our study, we can infer that sexual activity, broadly defined, may ameliorate loss of function that can occur with age and the progression of disease,” they add.

Co-author of the study: one Dr. Strangelove.

Hawaiʻi residents may see this in local food, water supply
KHON2 | July 31, 2024 | Sandy Harjo-Livingston

The first one who says “Harjo-Livingston, I presume” will be sanctioned.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that come from larger plastic items breaking down over time. These small particles can last for hundreds of years and can enter our bodies through the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has started a groundbreaking study to explore how these microplastics affect our lung health, thanks to a three-year grant of $352,126 from the National Science Foundation.

$117,375 per year is pretty much a slap in the face.

And 5 years ago:

Here comes another global disaster! Microplastics.
American Thinker | 06/07/2019 | Daniel G. Jones

Scientists thought it was bad, but it’s even worse than they imagined. Now it’s a potential catastrophe that will affect all our lives — unless we take action now. Otherwise, life on Earth will be irreparably harmed.

I’m not talking about global warming. I’m talking about global warming part II: microplastics!

Today, Fox News reported the release of a “groundbreaking study” of Monterey Bay by the Scripps Oceanographic Institute. A Scripps scientist summarized the findings: “Everywhere we looked and in every animal we looked, we found microplastics!”

The accompanying film was oddly irrelevant. It showed ocean waters filled with trash — pieces of metal, wood, glass, and plastic. Ugly, to be sure, but nothing that threatened the ocean’s inhabitants. And nothing, obviously, that was microscopic.

Jonathan Hunt of Fox News elaborated: “Scientists say this is a, quote, ‘wakeup call for the world[.]’ … What they found horrified them. Microplastics — tiny broken-up pieces of plastic everywhere, from the surface to the seabed. Those small pieces are being eaten by small creatures and, in turn, by bigger fish, then turning up on our dinner plate.”

If this is a problem off the coast of eco-friendly California, it must also be a problem elsewhere, right? “It’s highly likely,” continued Hunt, quoting scientists, “that pretty much every single area of every single one of the world’s oceans is already littered by plastics pollution.”

We are already…doomed.

Fortunately there’s hope. Scripps scientists promise to work on a solution in concert with corporations and government. “But,” they told Hunt, “it starts with each of us getting rid of those single-use plastic items, such as plastic water bottles.”

Aha — this has a familiar odor.

Wait! I have any number of plans you can fund and cancel! Over here!

After Spending $450 Million, NASA Scraps Moon Rover
The Epoch Times | July 18, 2024 | Bill Pan

NASA has canceled its plan to land a robotic rover on the Moon to search for ice and other potential resources, after spending $450 million.

The plan involved landing what is dubbed the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, near the lunar South Pole, which scientists suspect may harbor ice.

It was planned for the mobile robot to spend 100 days scouting the area for ice deposits and producing a first-ever resource map, which NASA said was critical for its future Artemis missions to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon’s surface.

The decision to axe the VIPER project was announced on July 17 at a press call [after the assassination attempt on Trump failed], with the space agency citing increased costs, delayed launch dates, and worries that future cost hikes could threaten its multi-billion-dollar program to hire private companies to deliver scientific instruments to the Moon. The VIPER was initially planned to be launched in late 2023 aboard a lander provided by Astrobotic Technology, but in 2022, NASA pushed the schedule back to late 2024 to provide more time for testing, the agency said. Since then, additional schedule and supply chain delays further pushed VIPER’s readiness date to September 2025.

In terms of costs, NASA said it has so far spent about $450 million on the program. Discontinuing VIPER is expected to save the agency at least $84 million in development and additional operational costs.

NASA officials stressed that the cancellation was due to a budgetary issue, not a technological one.

Robotic Arm Releases Cygnus From Station [July 12, 2024, ISS Expedition 71]
NASA | July 12, 2024 | Abby Graf

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Following a deorbit engine firing on Saturday, July 13, Cygnus will begin a planned destructive re-entry, in which the spacecraft – filled with trash packed by the station crew – will safely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

‘They’ shrieked about ‘global warming’ — but now they admit we were ‘accidentally cooling’
American Thinker  | 07/08/2024 | Jack Hellner

When it comes to climate science, basically, researchers, mainstream media outlets, the UN, and the Democrats simply make things up as they go along to fit the narrative.

When the earth didn’t warm up as much as they predicted, they changed the terminology from global warming to climate change.

When hundreds of dire predictions never came true, and they had no scientific data to support their policies to destroy industries and our quality and way of life, they just made things up, just like they did with COVID.

Now, take a look at this, from The Washington Post, via Yahoo News:

We’ve been accidentally cooling the planet — and it’s about to stop

It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming – it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.

Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.

And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans….

Remind Listeners That Cold Snaps in Winter Are Weather Phenomena, Not Global Warming

When you average out “hottest summer ever” with “coldest winter ever,” what do you get?

3 Reasons There’s Something Sinister With the Big Push for Electric Vehicles
internationalman.com | June 04, 2024 | Nick Giambruno

25 refrigerators.

That’s how much the additional electricity consumption per household would be if the average US home adopted electric vehicles (EVs).

Congressman Thomas Massie—an electrical engineer—revealed this information while discussing with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, President Biden’s plan to have 50% of cars sold in the US be electric by 2030.

The current and future grid in most places will not be able to support each home running 25 refrigerators—not even close. Just look at California, where the grid is already buckling under the existing load.

Massie claims, correctly, in my view, that the notion of widespread adoption of electric vehicles anytime soon is a dangerous fantasy based on political science, not sound engineering.

Voyager 1 (and Half Its Instruments) Are Back Online
Sky and Telescope | May 31, 2024 | David Dickinson

Voyager 1 is once again returning data from two of four science instruments onboard.

Things are looking better for one of NASA’s longest running deep space missions. After a several-month period of problems, engineers have announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is not only back online but also transmitting useful data from two of four science instruments. Work is now underway to bring the remaining two instruments up to operational status.

Problems began last November, when Voyager 1 suddenly began sending a repeating gibberish signal instead of the science and engineering data it typically sends.

Troubleshooting on the 46-year-old spacecraft revealed the culprit: a memory chip in one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers was corrupted, perhaps due to a strike from a speedy charged particle known as a galactic cosmic ray. The corrupted chip in turn prevented communication with one of the probe’s subsystems, known as the telemetry modulation unit.

The Space Flight Operations Facility in Pasadena, California, which processes the signals sent from Voyager 1 as well as other spacecraft throughout the solar system, has changed a lot between 1964 and 2021. (Voyager 1 launched in 1977.)

I always assumed that geothermal power was a good idea. Now, I’m not entirely sure.