Although I was initially opposed to the idea, my wife recently decided to buy a Nintendo Wii game system for our 9 year-old daughter and 6 year-old son.  Like many school-age children, our two kids already seem to have more sports classes, academic classes outside of school, and play dates than they have time to...
As part of my continuing effort to develop credentials as an environmental journalist, I offer you this sensational breaking world exclusive. (Previous EJ article.) It’s the perfect solution to everything. It’s said to represent the keenest investment ever in the future of personkind ever conceived. It will at once solve the climate change problem,...
Alpha-lipoic acid plays a very important role in the energy production centers of our cells (mitochondria). In recent years, clinical research has suggested that alpha-lipoic acid supplements may have a variety of potential health benefits, including a possible reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease. Recent laboratory research has also shown that alpha-lipoic acid...
Dietary polyphenols, which are potent antioxidants, are thought to have a wide range of potential health benefits, including a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer. Polyphenols are found in many plant-based foods that we eat, including that age-old beverage, beer. A newly published research study, which appears in...
In view of the growing concern about the potential adverse health effects of CT scans (including increased cancer risk), the enthusiasm for performing CT scans of the heart and coronary arteries, as a noninvasive method of diagnosing asymptomatic heart disease, has been decreasing.    Now, an innovative clinical research study, which has just been published in...
Polyphenols are chemical compounds that are found in most of the plant-based foods that we commonly eat. As I discuss in detail in my new book, A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race, some polyphenolic compounds, such as green tea flavonoids, soy-based isoflavones, quercetin, curcumin, and resveratrol, among other polyphenols, may possess important...
Lest we forget, the modern world was created and is maintained by science and technology; so much so and so successfully that many people have often been able to take it for granted. A few hundred years ago, you would have been thinking about what it takes to keep your wagon rolling, if you...
One of the difficulties in creating a good description of HLL is that most of the good words have already been used. Consider the following. What is High Level Logic (HLL)? “High Level Logic†(HLL) occupies a new position in relation to other software development tools and components. What is the highest level of...
I’ve, step-by-step, been explaining the history and character of the high level logic problem and the solution being developed in the HLL Open-Source Project. More than once, I’ve mentioned the enormous advantages of modern computer languages over what was available twenty-five years ago when the first few of my brain-cells became stimulated by the...
Kenneth Brower, son of Sierra Club transformer David Brower, and onetime friend of Freeman Dyson, has been writing about Dyson and climate change. As is usual with books by writers who are not scientists, the scientific issues are not addressed. Those are settled. Instead the purpose of the article is to find out why...
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Prepare yourself for a surprise ending. Do that now to avoid confusion later. Around 1990, I met with an industrial engineering professor who had been working for years with artificial intelligence technology. We had a long chat about the possibility of completely automated factories. This was still a decade before...
Link to Chapter 1 I understood the differences between what application developers wanted to do and what the “artificial intelligence†technology of the late 1980s supported. They were not the sort of differences that one might use to contract to update a software application. What had been, in effect, a broad survey of application...
Is it still called “disruptive climate changeâ€Â? I’m no longer trying to keep up with changing preferences in terminology. Cow dung by any other name still stinks. Let’s encapsulate the new, nEW, NEW!!! global warming “science†argument and see why realists are losing. If you’ve been reading lately, you’ll know that all the little...
In 1966, Stephen Hawking published his first  completely valid  proof for the existence of God. Over the next seven years, he followed this with even more powerful valid theorems proving God’s existence. So how did Hawking, who successfully proved God’s existence, remain an atheist? Simple. He simply denied that the assumptions he...
The unmerciful and unyielding science god of the atheists had spoken: sacrifices must be made.
Al Gore’s bogus green enterprises have pulled in some major public funding based on fraudulent claims; leading to the suggestion that he may eventually stand trial. There’s something more. In his obsessive lectures, it seems he’ll not be content until he’s destroyed the economy and forced his political enemies, those who he credits for...
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts†is how the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman defined science in his article “What is Science?†Feynman emphasized this definition by repeating it in a stand-alone sentence in extra large typeface in his article. (Feynman’s essay is available online, but behind a subscription wall:...
The iconic image of the “self-righteous” religious believer is a cliché of postmodernism. Dogmatic clerics in the middle east smile with satisfaction while they denounce the infidels. Cable TV preachers wince ecstatic eyes to heaven, praising God all the way. The famously self-righteous Jerry Falwell smirked with conviction that the 9/11 atrocities were “divine retribution”...
Epicatechin is a member of a group of dietary antioxidants known as flavonoids. Epicatechin is found in a variety of plant-based foods, but is particularly abundant in green tea and dark chocolate. Regular readers of this column are already familiar with previous research studies suggesting that green tea flavonoids, including epicatechin, have been linked...
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