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RIP Scott Adams

Creator of famous Dilbert comics has died at 68. During last decade or so he gained additional fame for his controversial public...

Forum: Fred's House of Pancakes

tochatihu replied to the thread Environmental News.

Vera Rubin Observatory is in instrument startup phase and is already finding new rocks out there. It will indeed bust this field wide...

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"As an observer and operations engineer at the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded planetary defense program that utilizes the telescopes...

tochatihu replied to the thread If you're going to San Francisco.

Oh sure. Glyphospate is very widely used and not all that risky according to studies. Most herbicides interfere with metabolic pathways...

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Listening to classical music

Readers may have some relationship with European classical music. But other forms also exist from China, Africa, Indonesia etc. Music...

Forum: Fred's House of Pancakes

tochatihu replied to the thread Environmental News.

Speaking to a subset of readers about nitrogenase. It is so kludgy that it will convert acetylene to ethylene in its active center. Hot...

tochatihu replied to the thread Environmental News.

A link on which to think: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/01/new-research-takes-another-step-towards-self-sustaining-crops/...

tochatihu replied to the thread Environmental News.

@bisco have you seen the movie Don't look up?

tochatihu replied to the thread Disease Prevention and Health Reseach.

General overview of vaccine design and manufacture: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/529892/how-are-vaccines-made Notably excluding...

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College football playoff Indiana vs. Oregon

Indiana scored very early by pass interception, and Oregon answered to tie 7-7. This one is going to be fun.

Forum: Fred's House of Pancakes

tochatihu replied to the thread Environmental News.

I hope readers enjoy: Inside the Daily Life of a Doomsday Asteroid Hunter Mt.Lemmon AZ is not the only place where such observations...

tochatihu replied to the thread Home wind power.

Global winds are almost always much stronger over sea than land. Land and things on it are bumpy and frictiony. It is not realistic to...

tochatihu replied to the thread Home wind power.

I have mentioned ECMWF climate data before, but not in the context of complementarity of wind and solar power generation. ECMWF is a...