...and come winter, all the Vermonters froze to death.

Then we have scare articles about how Plastic lasts more than a lifetime, and that's a problem.

Anyway, they probably could have saved themselves the study and asked people in the industry; that different colorants result in plastics being more or less resistant to UV is well-known (which is why nearly all outdoor-rated cable is black, for instance).

food substances of no or rare culinary use (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified starches and protein isolates).

Hydrogenated oils? Ah, you mean vegetable shortening. Definitely not of "no or rare culinary use".

Ultra-processed foods are operationally distinguishable from processed foods by the presence of food substances of no culinary use (varieties of sugars such as fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, 'fruit juice concentrates', invert sugar, maltodextrin, dextrose and lactose; modified starches; modified oils such as hydrogenated or interesterified oils; and protein sources such as hydrolysed proteins, soya protein isolate, gluten, casein, whey protein and 'mechanically separated meat')

Invert sugar is of "no culinary use"? Not so. And of course it's not much different from HFCS. Basically they listed a bunch of scary-sounding stuff and listed it as "ultra processed".

Glucose has about 3.75 kcal/g, and about 180 g/mol. This gives 675 kcal/mol, or about 1.12 * 10^-18 cal / molecule. What that has to do with anything I don't know.

Sugar does not decompose into ATP; which should be obvious from the lack of phosphorus in the sugar and if you know a little bit more, the lack of nitrogen in the sugar.

When you put these two facts together, you get nothing.

It appears the World Health Organization does not have guidelines on treating dehydration outside that induced by diarrhoea. Their guidelines on this do not mention sports drinks. Nor lemonade.

Sports drinks in general have too much sugar for a rehydration solution (which reduces speed of absorption), because that's not what they're meant for. The sugar is there to replace some of the energy used during exercise. The salts are there to replace salts lost due to sweating. The idea is to prevent dehydration (and hyponatremia) rather than to treat it.

The problem is that because EV charging is so much slower than gasoline filling, in order to replace fueled vehicles entirely, you need not to have as many chargers as pumps, but to have several times as many level 3 chargers as pumps. Home charging doesn't help much if you want actual replacement utility -- it actually hurts because it makes the peak-to-modal usage ratio of superchargers higher. Like the old Bell system which was sized according to the number of people calling on Christmas (or Mother's Day), a fueling network has to be able to handle the crowds on long-distance travel days like Thanksgiving time. Sure, people can start out charged up, but if they're traveling more than their range, they will need to fill up at some point.

Social media beat the regulation, as did IoT devices, With AI the jury is still out; there's bills in California trying to strangle it in its cradle.

The only way you can get a new technology out there is to get it established before it can be strangled by regulations. Self-driving cars started way behind (since autos are already heavily regulated) and clearly the regulator attention is now getting more oppressive far faster than adoption is happening.

Regular Google employees didn't have anything to do with X. When he was more active, Brin would sometimes go around to offices talking about X projects; invariably he'd be asked how one could get into them as an engineer, and invariably the answer would be "you can't" (e.g. "What you do is important too")

When I'm cycling I already have ample EM reflectors working in the sub-micrometer band to notify others of my presence. There are also available emitters in the same band, though I don't find them necessary. Both take advantage of sensors hopefully already present in all vehicles.

Modern cars already have enough "safety" noise going on -- "Oh no, you crossed the line without signaling (that's a tar strip, genius)" "Look out, there's a car on the cross street (really? no shit! It's a street)". Continuing the arms race by adding more noise for bicycles is dumb, and it will only lead to someone running over a pedestrian while looking for the bicycle they were warned of. Which will lead to an even noisier system warning of pedestrians.

Malaria was eliminated in the US and Europe through judicious application of DDT in the 1940s and 1950s. The entire world has been plagued by malaria since the beginning of recorded time.

Nope. Malaria is an Old World parasite and didn't exist in the New World before the Columbian Exchange. So you will find no Mayan records of malaria.

You can see this throughout the US, and is evident even in the span of 20-30 years in some places: squirrels and chipmunks aren't as common as they used to to be, and places that had ample gamebirds now have few to none.

I live in suburban New Jersey. If squirrels were any more plentiful you couldn't see the trees. Plenty of chipmunks and raccoons. We have turkeys too. And woodcock; I've seen them in the yard but I didn't know their name until now. It's not AGW, but it isn't suburban development either.

The reason Boeing isn't making a new narrowbody is the cost to certify a new airframe and get pilots trained on it (because you have to be type-certified on a particular airplane to fly it; just because you can fly a Boeing 737 doesn't mean you can fly an A320) is prohibitive. If they can't get enough fuel savings from it to interest the airlines enough to take on the pilot training cost, and to cover the airframe certification cost, there's no point in making it. Better to keep making 737 variants and talk the FAA into accepting that they're basically the same thing.

When this system activates on the highway in stop-and-go traffic traveling at high speeds at much smaller following distances than the safety people recommend (and therefore will be designed into the system), it's going to cause a LOT of fender-benders. Of course, by then it will be too late to do anything about it, so the blame will go on those using the pre-mandate cars.