Karikó and Weissman
Nobel Prize winners.
Eggs ’n’ acid
A brilliant way to improve scrambled eggs: whisk a small amount of Dijon mustard with the eggs. More flavor!
More Jeopardy jeopardy
Now that the fairly despicable Mike Richards is out as a Jeopardy host, Mayim Bialik’s anti-science is coming in for more attention
Jeopardy and Neuriva
It’s dispiriting to see a spokesperson for a dubious brain supplement chosen as one of the new hosts of Jeopardy.
Science must trump politics
Dr. Rick Bright: “Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics.”
“Scientifically” vs. “just words”
Donald Trump, yesterday: “It’s documented scientifically, not just words.” An odd sentence, in several ways.
Moony
I can think of two possible explanations of “of which the Moon is a part”: 1. Trump thinks that the moon orbits Mars. If so, he is, on this point as on so many other points, misinformed. 2. Trump envisions a trip to the moon as part of a long-range project to reach Mars. That’s NASA’s Project Artemis. But you can’t go to Mars from the moon without going to the moon first. If going to the moon is part of getting to Mars, NASA should be talking about going to the moon.
No science
“Mr. Trump is the first president since 1941 not to name a science adviser, a position created during World War II to guide the Oval Office on technical matters ranging from nuclear warfare to global pandemics.”
Goodbye to Paris
Bill McKibben, writing in The New York Times.
“An integral part of nature”
From Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
“And you’re right too”
Carlo Rovelli on general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Elementary particles
From Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.