Category: Science (Page 1 of 5)

Not so many hurricanes this year.

August 9, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts a below average hurricane season.

NOAA anticipates 7-13 named storms and 2-6 hurricanes, which includes 0-2 major hurricanes.

That’s good, but how well does NOAA predict hurricane seasons? AI is good at answering those kinds of questions. (If it’s not lying or making this up.)

From Bing:

Seasonal hurricane count forecasts: Generally accurate, hitting the target range about 69% of the time, but with a bias toward under‑forecasting in extreme seasons.

I plead the fif.

August 2, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The Rise and Fall of Anthony Fauci

I’m seeing many articles like this one talking about Dr. Fauci’s senate testimony. At the same time, many people weren’t even aware that it happened. That’s just as well because Fauci pleaded the 5^th Amendment a hundred and eleven times.

None of the articles mention Dave Chappelle’s relevant contribution:

The sun is coming up in the wrong place.

June 3, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

How can the sun be rising to the north of east rather than a little south of east?

I live half-way up the Northern Hemisphere, so it seems like the sun should always be a little bit south. That’s why moss grows on the north side of trees. Because of my road, I know east is on the right side of the photo. Something ain’t right.

Scientists discover when dog brains shrank.

May 7, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Science Alert: We Now Know When Dog Brains Shrank – And It Might Be Our Fault

Dogs have far smaller brains than their wolf relatives, and now a study led by researchers in France has plotted a timeline for when this shrinking – sometimes considered a mark of domestication – might’ve begun.

Sparky says that his brain shrank when he met Chumley.

Scientists say that dog brains shrank during the Neolithic period, at least 5000 years ago when humans started farming and domesticating animals.

Experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

April 21, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

CNN: Trump accelerates research on psychedelic treatments

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments.

This may be the Trumpiest news ever.

Moron meeting is well-attended in Wisconsin.

April 20, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Activists Try to Remove 2,000 Beagles from Wisconsin Research Facility

On Saturday, April 18, at 8:52 am, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office responded to approximately 1000 activists converging on Ridglan Farms in the town of Blue Mounds.

This looks like a war zone. I adore beagles, but these chaotic people are violent thugs. If they had succeeded, they weren’t going to flee the scene with a beagle under each arm. The beagles would have been released into the wild to be eaten by coyotes or face some other grim death.

Watch the skies.

March 17, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

7-ton asteroid lights up Northeast Ohio skies, fragments above Medina County

The boom was loud, deep and short. A crash or bang from the highway wouldn’t be such a deep bass sound. With the recent wind, trees have been falling over, but that would be cracking noise that would last longer.

Describe your dog for science.

December 8, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I was reading this dog research about genetics. I was impressed with how the questionnaire asks people to physically describe their dogs.

This graphic about chest shape is crude, but effective.

Disappointing dog research.

December 8, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Ars Technica: Why is my dog like this? Current DNA tests won’t explain it to you.

Another disappointing article about dog research.

The dog shown in the photo above is a stock photo chosen for this article. To me, the photo says,

“Hi, my name is Patches! They found me at a pet sematary. This paw is bigger than my other paws, and my ears don’t seem to be related. I look to be patched together from a bunch of dogs, so they call me Patches! Can I take your kids for a walk over to the edge of the forest? You don’t have to come along.”

The European Space Agency is going to miss American money.

November 20, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

SPACE: Will Europe’s flagship space science missions survive NASA’s budget cuts?

Flagship European space science missions conducted in collaboration with NASA face a possible combined funding shortfall of nearly $2 billion due to budget cuts put forward by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. The European Space Agency hopes its member states will come to the rescue.

Europe’s flagship space science missions may be worthwhile, but they aren’t ours, so why are we funding them? It’s only about twenty bucks per American taxpayer, but do that for 10,000 other foreign agencies and projects, and it starts to add up.