Mostly the covers here have no thematic connection to the links, other than being science fiction.
One more thing to blame Trump and Republicans for: anti-vaxxers are stronger politically than ever. And they’re still churning out bullshit: anti-vaxxer Dr. Peter McCullough recycles the old claim about vaccines causing autism and throws in a new one, that theyre linked to transgenderism. Oh, and antivaxxers are swaying dog-owners with claims vaccines cause canine autism. Add rabies to the list of diseases anti-vaxxer are going to spread.
Wildfires have made air quality the worst it’s been in decades.
Republican state policies on things like tobacco and seat-belt use get their constituents killed.
A remote vehicle exploring off the Alaska coast found a golden egg on the sea floor — and nobody knows what it is.
We don’t know anywhere near enough about undersea volcanoes to protect ourselves.
Cool — it looks like our fundamental theories of cosmology need to be replaced.
More than 50 years ago, the first Earth Day made a number of environmental predictions. Many of them didn’t come true, some because they guessed wrong, some because they inspired us to fix things.
Google has a (limited) solution for identifying AI and deepfake images. Meanwhile the demand for AI is cratering fast. And here’s a new wrinkle: depending how questions about 2020 are phrased, Alexa tells users the election was stolen.
Modern tech makes it easy for someone to fake a school-shooting alert.
Just how long have human lived in North America?
The problem with diagnosing mental issues on social media.
People who’ve provided DNA to genealogical sites may have it accessed in criminal investigations, even if they opted out.
“Epic versus Apple is what I’ve previously called the Super Bowl of antitrust,”
“Meitner went on to be nominated 46 times for the Nobel in both physics and chemistry, but she never won. ” — a look at yet another woman overlooked in science history
Why AI hasn’t become an overnight job killer.
The fight over training AI on pirated texts.
Can lab-grown chicken ever become affordable enough to be a practical alternative to animal meat?
Abortion bans complicate women’s access to drugs for everything from cancer to arthritis.
Christian preacher Greg Locke claims autistic kids are demon-possessed. Pastor Joe Salant advocates treating autism with bleach. In case you’re wondering, they’re both wrong.
“A ‘field cannot reward truth if it does not or cannot decipher it, so it rewards other things instead. Interestingness. Novelty. Speed. Impact. Fantasy. And it effectively punishes the opposite. Intuitive Findings. Incremental Progress. Care. Curiosity. Reality.'” — a look at the fraud and fudging in social science. The NYT adds more.
If you’ve heard about the Osiris Rex mission that brought back samples from an asteroid here’s the blow-by-blow. First results of studying the soil samples are due to be announced this month.
Algae is killing coral reefs. In Florida, scientists are raising crabs to eat the algae.
#SFWApro. Covers top to bottom: Uncredited, Mitchell Hooks, Richard Powers, Earle Bergey, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Leo and Diane Dillon and Virgil Finlay
