Science: How much do you know about science?
11 question survey from Pew Research purports to rank your science knowleddge. Seemed easy to me.
Environment: The Right to Repair
John Deere is said to be preventing farmers from repairing their own equipment, in some cases, leading to loss of crops.
Space: FCC approves direct satellite to cell phone services
The cell phone to satellite service of SpaceX (and T-Mobile in the U.S.) was just approved by the FCC.
Nutrition “science”: Every five years they change the guidelines
The 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines aim to kill you.
Nutrition: Field grown fake dairy protein?
Replace simple, low processed, locally grown organic food with highly processed, molecular engineered soy proteins to make fake dairy product. Uh huh.
Demographics: Low fertility rate may have long term economic effects
The lack of kids is going to put a crimp on the economy for a long time to come.
Environment: Repair, Reuse, Recycle
Too many push getting the latest, newest products - resulting in rapid obsolescence of perfectly good gear. It's inefficient and bad for the environment.
Public health: Disease models are not science
8 weeks in a row, the U.S. top disease modeler's Covid forecast has predicted an increase in cases; instead, cases went down every week.
Demographics: Korean Universities to close programs, due to declining enrollment
The low fertility rate in Korea has resulted in a collapse in the college student aged population.