Science 2.0

05/31/2026

A relative hail size graphic for nerds. Which is to say all of us.

05/31/2026

The least alcoholic province in Spain has more bars per capita than America's drunkest state, so if you want to roll the dice on fun ways to get cancer or an STD next weekend, there you go.

05/29/2026

Yes, the Affordable Care Act made health care unaffordable, but on the plus side it made health care ridiculously inefficient.

05/29/2026

Lung cancer now is not as high as during the apex of ci******es but lawyers tried to claim it was small micron particulate matter (PM2.5), second- and even third-hand "smoke" - except they couldn't torture epidemiology enough to link them.

The confounder to all lawyer-driven lawsuit claims is that women account for two-thirds of never-smokers with the disease.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01457-0?utm_source=science20.com

A malignancy that once mainly affected men has broadened its reach. But marked disparities in research, detection and treatment remain.

05/28/2026

Academia: We're politically neutral and haven't blocked out conservatives, we're just smarter than they are so more of us get hired.

Reality:

05/27/2026

Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century.

Polar bears have doubled since the 1960s.

Global burned area has decreased by over 25% this century.

None of that is due to solar and wind. Conventional energy is still 81% of world energy, despite $16 trillion spent on alternatives that are costly and ineffective.

05/27/2026

If you don't believe gametes can settle the girls and boys sports divide maybe try...voices?

"The first point to make is that some s*x differences are genuinely enormous: much larger than the s*x difference in height ... another is the s*x difference in voice pitch, which has an effect size of around d = 4.19"

05/26/2026

Can you spot a political conservative?

A study in Nature thinks they can. Their correlation between facial features and political views revealed unattractive women who showed more contempt were more likely to admit being left-leaning.

Happier men and women were more likely to be conservative.

05/24/2026

Chinese Epidemiologists Declare Your Western Imperialist Barbecue Will Give You Cancer. Happy Memorial Day weekend!

05/22/2026

Q***r Death Studies And Shrimp: Welcome To Government Funded Academia