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    Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials

    I'm surprised that trust levels at the high end of the scale aren't higher. But then I'm a scientist who lives in a town with the highest per-capita number of STEM Ph.D.s in the USA (and if one were to aggregate with STEM Master's, even more so), and I don't get out (except into the boondocks)...
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    Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction

    A ray of hope with the judicial system?
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    The top 5 most horrifying and fascinating medical cases of 2025

    What, no photos???
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    This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

    Sitting around a campfire at night promoting socializing: some things haven't changed in a very, very long time.
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    Man’s heart stopped after common bacterium caused ultra-rare infection

    Like Chagas disease: vacation in Latin America, sleep in relatively undeveloped establishments, die later.
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    Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward

    Amazon is worse, I think--why not go after them?
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    Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone

    I find its incessant political correctness to be a real turn-off. I'm exposed to enough human-generated BS without a limitless font of auto-generated BS added to it.
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    Feds charge New Mexico man for allegedly torching Tesla dealership

    The perpetrator was something of a headcase, per our local news where this happened https://www.koat.com/article/jamison-wagner-arsonist-suspect-new-mexico/64492059
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    Return of the California Condor

    There are technical problems with that. For big game the bullet must expand to transfer the kinetic energy. Tungsten isn't going to do that. And unless it's coated with something soft, it would destroy the barrel with the first shot, if not the whole action. So yeah, it could be coated with...
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    Scientist behind superconductivity claims ousted

    It's been 50 years since I engaged in any misconduct at the local university (USA), before I attended that university, wherein as three early teens we figured out how to break into the steam tunnels that ran under practically every building, and provided access to the university library where we...
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    The DNA secrets of a medieval cave-dwelling community

    "The combined information reveals a story of inbreeding, occasional bouts of violence and disease during a fascinating period in history." Oh, serial comma, please!
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    Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says

    Cops, there might be a few good ones out there, but in my personal experience with city and state cops, they're all scum, and now we learn that they're still getting worse in a whole new way.
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    With 145 sickened, 2 dead, microdosing candy poisonings are still a mystery

    As a somewhat competent "kitchen" (well, garage) chemist, this is giving those clowns undue credit.
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    With 145 sickened, 2 dead, microdosing candy poisonings are still a mystery

    Is this just pour weird chemicals into the vat? Where is this stuff made, or where do the "active ingredients" come from? Somebody knows, but it seems they're not telling.
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    These African lions swam a record-breaking 1.5 km to find a mate

    Hungry hippos? But they don't eat lions.
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    The unmatched streak of perfection with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is over

    What I was taught in school in the USA is that "a couple" means two, "a few" means 3-5, and "several" means more than that. "several hundred degrees" in this context is wrong, plain sloppy writing.
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    Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

    1977, HP-25 programmable calculator manual had a lunar landing program one could key in. One could do better than a "suicide burn" by initially entering negative amounts of fuel to burn. One could safely land with a very small total number of "burns," as few as two as I vaguely recall--one...
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    After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

    Interestingly (to me anyway), I grew up, in the USA, on raw milk. One nearby neighbor with a cow with no other neighbors (or cattle, as far as I know) for over 20 miles. Pail of fresh warm milk on the doorstep every morning. But then that was 60 years ago.
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    After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

    Your wording implies that a 50% mortality rate is sufficient to induce pulling.
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    After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

    This really could be Darwin in action time.