There is far more heat energy in a swimming pool than in a pan of boiling water. You can boil an egg in the pan. You can’t boil an egg in the pool. And if you doubled the size of the pool, you’d double the energy available — and still have a cold, raw egg

The rooftop solar industry might be in freefall and on the way out, but the damage of bad performance and long-term contracts endures

This is a long-winded introduction, so forgive me. Ressentiment and hurt feelings over loss of prestige has hit many academic scientists hard. The ebbing away of respect and deference was not something they prepared for

Perhaps we seem to belabour the point about the harsh winter of 2025-26 in North America in particular.

Tattoo ink migrates out of the skin. Up to 32% of injected pigment reaches the lymph nodes within 6 weeks, triggers chronic inflammation, and—in two independent European studies—a 21–62% higher risk of lymphoma.

Scotland has become the first country in the UK where water cremations are now legal

“There is a struggle brewing” over the science behind the hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine, said Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Senior Research Scientist Karl Jablonowski after a report this week showed that Hep B vaccination rates plummeted 10 percentage points over two years

They’re not as obnoxious as the “In This House We Believe” yard signs, nor as common, but if in the right neighborhood, it’s not hard to find “Climate Action Now” signs

In a recent Spectator article, “All Hail the Chickenpox Vaccine!”, Toby Young shares a harrowing personal experience involving his newborn son, poor care and a near‑fatal brush with chickenpox. It is a moving and powerful story

Two months ago, one of my favorite writers, Ted Gioia, wrote about the growing opposition to Big Tech and data centers, and the surging skepticism about AI, citing a Gallup poll that found 80 percent of the public wants to slow down AI development

Bloomberg Green emails us about “Sao Paulo’s climate paradox” of being too dry and too wet at once, naturally enough “its largest climate-induced stress test in more than a decade” rather than just some bad weather.

Giving praise universally and refusing to criticise have been themes of education for several decades now, so the effects suggested (whereby confidence goes up even when successful problem-solving performance goes down) have become built in over a much longer timeframe than the AI era

Congress has introduced legislation that would place genetic engineering and synthetic biology technologies into NATO’s classified military planning structure, authorizing the alliance to “research, develop, and deploy biotechnology” under a new international biodefense framework governing tools the bill itself states could enable the development of bioweapons

To achieve American energy dominance, all we needed was a new president