Max Planck researchers solve structure of viral copy machine. When someone becomes infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen proliferates rapidly in the cells of the infected person.

I share a new ancient history news article that got me caught up on an interesting story. I share the new report and my thoughts on the Tomanowos (Willamette) Meteorite. They say it hit the ice cap in 15,000BC and was transported to Oregon in an Ice Age Flood about 13,000 years ago.

The movie Avatar evoked an imaginary world of lush bioluminescent jungles. Now the popular fascination for sustainably glowing foliage is being realized through advances in designer genetics.

Tony Heller, who operates the website RealClimateScience, has posted a powerful four-minute video absolutely destroying claims that the western United States is currently experiencing a nearly unprecedented megadrought.

One thing the coronavirus outbreak has taught us is that we have limited resources, at least when it comes to funding.

Consider that the funds set aside for small businesses in the Paycheck Protection Program ran out in a matter of weeks. And that’s the federal government. State governments have even less budgetary room to play around with, and counties have even less money.

Birmingham’s Nightingale hospital is “not being used at all” 10 days after it was opened by the Duke of Cambridge.

Set up inside the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the site is intended to take up to 500 coronavirus patients at a time from 23 Midlands hospitals.

Considerable research into the use of UV light for treatment of disease was initiated in the 1870’s.

One of the first researchers to experiment with UV light was Niels Ryberg Finsen (photo, below), who won the Nobel Prize for “Physiology of Medicine” in 1903 for the treatment of 300 people suffering from Lupus in Denmark.

Under the volcanoes in the Andes where Chile, Argentina and Bolivia meet, there is a gigantic reservoir of molten magma. For several million years, it has been there without fully solidifying or causing a supervolcanic eruption.

When Donald Trump proposed at a press conference that ultraviolet light might be used as an internal disinfectant to treat the Covid19 coronavirus, a firestorm of criticism erupted from the mainstream news media stating that injecting a disinfectant would be foolish and dangerous too.

It’s just as well for kids to not got to school at all, and not even bother with doing the lessons sent home. It is just as well. You know why, right?

While they are occurring on vastly different time scales, the COVID-19 panic and the climate change panic are remarkably similar.

Perhaps there are certain basic social panic mechanisms that always occur, which are yet to be discovered. Yet in any case, the striking similarities between these two are worth exploring a bit.

The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts.

There is simply no other way to state this. Nearly everything we’ve been told about models, rates of infection, deaths, and recoveries was inaccurate.

I’m not here to argue that it was malfeasance or ignorance — both are unacceptable. But the one thing that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s stunning announcement made clear on Thursday is that there are some pretty shocking — and what should be — reassuring truths.