The so-called Pineapple Express is dumping rain down all over California, for one thing. An explanation in the form of a song. (With apologies to Talking Heads.) Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: What Causes Hangovers, and How Can I Avoid Them?
No one really knows how drunkenness works, and hangovers are poorly understood, no matter what your friend tells you. Still, there are a few things you can try. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Want Someone to Care About Climate Change? Make It Personal
Goodbye, Arctic. Hello, heat stroke and asthma attacks. New climate reports connect the dots between predictions and your life—today. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: A Government Climate Study Contradicts the President
A massive new federal report describes a country in ecological collapse and infrastructural ruin by 2100. They released it on Black Friday. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Midterm Election Voters Shot Down a Carbon Tax, But It’ll Rise Again
Washington voters will likely shoot down a ballot initiative that would tax carbon emissions, but carbon pricing is still likely to reach the US. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How Fast?
A new paper concludes that it takes more than four times as much energy to mine $1 of bitcoin as mining $1 of copper. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Calling the Caravan’s Migrants “Diseased” Is a Classic Xenophobic Move
The migrants almost certainly do not have smallpox or leprosy, a claim that is just the latest attempt to dehumanize foreigners. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Trump’s Take on Transgender Identity Makes No Scientific Sense
A leaked memo that proposes to eliminate protections for transgender individuals, in part by relying on genetic testing, is deeply problematic. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: How Hurricane Michael Got Super Big, Super Fast
The phenomenon known as ‘rapid intensification’ used to be rare. With climate change, this most deadly type of hurricane is becoming more common. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: First North Carolina Got a Hurricane. Then a Pig **** Flood. Now It’s a Coal Ash Crisis
North Carolina is being slammed by a succession of disasters triggered by Hurricane Florence. The latest scare is from coal plants, where pools of ash are at risk of spilling into already toxic waters. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The Science Behind Home Disaster Preparedness Kits Is a Disaster
Officials are pushing for extreme self-sufficiency when the next hurricane, earthquake, or other catastrophe hits, but the advice can be unclear and impractical. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: An Equator Full of Hurricanes Shows a Preview of End Times
The climate has changed, and our planet is growing less habitable. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Trump’s Disregard of Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Is Putting Lives at Risk
President Trump’s tweet about the death toll in Puerto Rico is worse than a lie. It means we’ll never learn from past disasters, repeating devastating mistakes. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: We Know Exactly How to Stop Wildfires—With Money
Wildfires would be much less destructive if forests were managed actively, with controlled burns and by culling trees and undergrowth. But someone has to pay for that. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up—Again
An attempt to replicate some of the decade’s best research shows some of it … doesn’t. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse Was Predicted in 2007
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. The scientists warned us about big data and corporate surveillance. They tried to warn…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: In San Francisco’s Big Oil lawsuit, Climate Science Gets a Day in Court
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. San Francisco and Oakland are suing oil companies for money to protect against sea…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Researchers are building a case that long before the nervous system works, the brain…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Theranos Didn’t Nuke the Diagnostics Business
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Dozens of other companies were working on point-of-care blood testing before Theranos, and dozens…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Stephen Hawking, a Physicist Transcending Space and Time, Dies at 76
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Hawking may have been the most famous physicist in the world—not only because he…