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by caltrek
Wed May 08, 2024 3:48 pm
Forum: Energy & the Environment
Topic: The Future of Food, Agriculture, and Aquaculture
Replies: 271
Views: 806031

Re: The Future of Food, Agriculture, and Aquaculture

Artificial Intelligence to Make Crop Production More Sustainable May 6, 2024 Introduction: (Eurekalert) Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researche...
by caltrek
Wed May 08, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Biology & Medicine
Topic: Cancer News and Discussions
Replies: 545
Views: 388535

Re: Cancer News and Discussions

Unearthing the Atomic Fingerprints of Cancer May 6, 2024 Extract: (Eurekalert) Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and Princeton University have, for the first time, employed a tool often used in geology to detect the atomic fingerprints of cancer. In a case of medicine meets earth sci...
by caltrek
Mon May 06, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread
Replies: 1209
Views: 464259

Re: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

USA Today/Suffolk* General Election: Trump 37, Biden 37, Kennedy 8, West 2, Stein 1 Tie Sample size: 1,000 Source of summary: https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls Relevant to my recent post regarding information silos: What TV news or commentary source do you trust the most (READ)? {RANDOM...
by caltrek
Mon May 06, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread
Replies: 1209
Views: 464259

Re: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

I&I/TIPP General Election: Trump vs. Biden Trump 40, Biden 42 Biden +2 General Election: Trump vs. Biden vs. Kennedy vs. West vs. Stein Trump 38, Biden 39, Kennedy 12, West 1, Stein 1 Biden +1 Discussion: (Tipp Insights) President Joe Biden has a tenuous lead over lawfare-challenged former Pres...
by caltrek
Sat May 04, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Fictional Future
Topic: Is the future now?
Replies: 5
Views: 339

Re: Is the future now?

It is like the Steve Miller band song: "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future."
by caltrek
Sat May 04, 2024 6:23 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread
Replies: 1209
Views: 464259

Re: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

To the question of how and why is Trump's support so strong compared to Biden's, one must look toward the information silos to which the American public sequesters itself. For example, look at the relative ratings of the cable news networks: (TV Newser) Fox News in primetime had 2.135 million total ...
by caltrek
Sat May 04, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: USA News and Discussions
Replies: 1083
Views: 642092

Re: USA News and Discussions

Reproductive Rights Advocates Close in on Abortion Ballot Measures in Missouri and South Dakota by Julia Lurie May 4, 2024 Introduction: (Mother Jones) Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures need...
by caltrek
Sat May 04, 2024 5:35 pm
Forum: Business & Politics
Topic: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread
Replies: 1209
Views: 464259

Re: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

I sure hope this poll (see below) has underestimated Biden's support and that other polls showing a slight Biden lead are more accurate. (Rasmussen Reports) General Election: Trump 48, Biden 36, Kennedy 8, West 1, Stein 1 Trump +12 Sample size: 1,205 Likely Voters Poll taken April 29, 2024 to May 1,...
by caltrek
Sat May 04, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: The History Forum
Topic: Natural History (13.8 billion years BC – 3.3 million BC)
Replies: 264
Views: 235635

Re: Natural History (13.8 billion years BC – 3.3 million BC)

What Is the Largest Mammal Ever to Walk the Earth? by Maddy Chapman May 1, 2024 Introduction: (IFL Science) Since the demise of the dinosaurs, mammals have thrived. Without their scaly peers around, their numbers exploded, they diversified, and they got bigger – but just how big? We know that the b...
by caltrek
Sat May 04, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: Society & Demographics
Topic: Society & Demographics News and Discussions
Replies: 185
Views: 170154

Re: Society & Demographics News and Discussions

A world with fewer children? May 3, 2024 Introduction: (Eurekalert) In the 1992 dystopian novel “Children of Men,” later adapted to film, humanity faces the chilling reality of a world without children, a global infertility crisis that threatens to extinguish the species. While this apocalyptic vis...