What made the California fires worse: environmental protection for the smelt.
Jimmy Carter’s boldest deregulation idea never happened.
Lessons from all the past efforts to cut wasteful government spending.
There is no relationship between climate change and wildfires.
How long we live is 25% determined by our genes and 75% determined by lifestyle and environment. (NYT)
Claim: breastfeeding could save 800,000 child lives a year.
The virtual cell: “Scientists are now designing computer programs that may unlock the ability to simulate human cells, giving researchers the ability to predict the effect of a drug, mutation, virus, or any other change in the body, and in turn making physical experiments more targeted and likelier to succeed.”
Prince Gavin has been just as keen to ship Northern California water south as anyone else. But most of it goes to large-scale almond farming in Southern San Juaquin Valley and not Los Angeles. Delta Smelt is only an indicator species; others such as salmon and sturgeon are under pressure as well. Ironically one sport fish that always seems to do well is the non-native striped bass, a known predator of juvenile salmon.