Whose Reality is This?

 "It's all about chemistry." "No, it's all about physics. It makes chemistry happen." "But I love chemistry...

Spent a few hours living in the past during visit to Museum of the Earth (Ithaca, NY). Did a sketch on the progression of the Precambrian pe...

The running theme in this blog, perhaps in my entire life, has been on reality, or what we think may be reality. What is reality?  Is that a...

This should not be surprising.* AI models are a mirror to human behavior. So shit that goes in results in exporting shit.  AI models are tr...

What is 'reality'? Ask 10 people that question and you'll likely hear 10 different answers, including "I don't know....

Two common words used amongst autistics (and in the autism literature) are 'masking' and 'camouflaging'.  As a late-diagnose...

The dangers of air pollution seem obvious and of concern to some, but apparently only a minority. How much of the apathy is attributed to ...

What convinces me that our species is 'doomed' (I wish I could avoid using that term, but can no longer deny the applicability) is t...

Pangea and the diversity of life.   Most everyone knows what Pangea was: the largest supercontinent in Earth's history. All land masses ...

"Pathosystem"  I like that term. It encompasses a systems perspective -both pathogen and host- rather than focusing on just a sing...

I love this quote. Wish I had it on a rubber stamp.  "Being unable to accurately measure the thing on which a theory is based is a fair...

“The origins of the obesity epidemic may be further back than we thought” A recently published paper concluded that the rise of obesity bega...

Peeve: When the scientific community can't agree on a definition consensus for a term, such as 'muscle memory'.  Muscles don...

 "Little brainiacs and big dummies: Are we selecting for stupid, stout, or small dogs?" Intriguing study . The title is catchy, so...

I'm bored with spinning, TV and reading my books. It's cold and raining outside. So I'm reading a few papers on how phosphates e...

 What caffeine does to the brain.  This question has popped up in short ‘vacant spaces’ (periods of quiet without other junk thoughts) the p...

Bats harbor many viruses and are a source of old and new emergent viral diseases in humans. Why?  Two papers review the unique bat immunolog...

Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle, argued that roasters and manufacturers failed to prove that that there is no substantial risk to drinking...

On the tail of the silver fox ....... Despite that the field of epigenetics is often dismissed as a fad topic, that may come back to surpr...

Should burns take place in spring Or wait for autumn rain? Would baiting help or hinder? Can owl chicks live through flame? ‘I dunno,’ ...