The global sale of ICE cars peaked in 2018. They are now losing market share to EVs. That translates into less fossil fuel consumption and lower emissions from light transportation vehicles. 🧪🔌💡
A good summary of why most virologists don't believe in the covid lab leak hypothesis: pauloffit.substack.com/p/lab-leak-m...
Why did the New York Times publish an op-ed supporting the lab leak theory?
"I strongly recommend this book ... You don't have to know the history of every discovery in your field but if you are going to refer to it in the introduction to your papers then you'd better be sure you get it right." Prof Laurence Moran, University of Toronto sandwalk.blogspot.com/2024/06/canc...
Look at this thing of beauty. This won a Nobel Prize. The Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar system. Einstein's General Relativity predicts orbital period between these massive compact objects should decay (the solid curve is the GR prediction). Incredibly, observations match this almost perfectly. 🔭🧪
Info on my forthcoming book: for clothcover/paperback, you can pre-order from U Chicago Press: press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/... — use code UCPNEW for 30% off. Book will be sent when available, probably end of June. For an e-copy, you can wait for the open access version, probably end of July. 🌱🐋🌎
You may have opinions on COVID19 origins, but Eddie Holmes brings the evidence. He's one of the world's top scientists working on viral emergence. This is worth, actually required, reading for anyone interested in the subject. There will be a quiz afterwards. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...#EvoBio#HistSTM
