On November 6, 2020, I woke up to a flood (for a statistician) of tweets about my 2018 article “Statistical Paradises and Paradoxes in Big Data (I): Law of Large Populations, Big Data Paradox, and the 2016 US Presidential Election.” A kind soul had offered it as an answer to the question: “What’s wrong with […]
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Unprecedented 3-D view inside Animal Mummies
More than 2,000 years ago in Egypt, animals were often mummified as offerings to gods or buried along with human mummies. But many details about the practice are unclear, in part because studying the creatures without damaging them is difficult. Recent Micro CT scans of three animal mummies at Swansea University in Wales offered a […]
Flood Risks to Low-Income Homes to Triple by 2050
The risk of coastal floods damaging or destroying low-income homes will triple over the next 30 years as rising tides and storm surges encroach on low-lying developed areas, according to new findings from the nonprofits Climate Central and National Housing Trust. By 2050, researchers say, more than 25,000 affordable housing units are expected to see […]
Undersea Earthquakes Reveal Sound Warming Info
To us humans, climate change feels like something that’s happening to the atmosphere. But most of the action is actually at sea—about 90 percent of the heat that gets trapped by greenhouse gases is absorbed by the ocean. “So it’s really important to track that energy in the climate system and track the warming of […]
Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health
For this installment of our pre-election podcast series I spoke to Scientific American’s senior medicine editor, Josh Fischman. Steve Mirsky: So Josh, tell me about the issues in medicine and public health that are going to be affected by this election. Obviously, the first one is the coronavirus pandemic. Josh Fischman: Yeah. COVID is the […]
Double Whammy of Warming, Overfishing Could Spell Disaster for Antarctic Krill
The icy ocean around Antarctica may seem like a cold and foreboding place. But it’s actually brimming with life. Penguins and seals build their colonies on its rocky shores. Orcas, whales and a variety of fish zip through its gray waters. Seabirds glide overhead. The Antarctic Peninsula, the continent’s northernmost spit of land, is one […]
A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research Suggests
U.S. health officials are urging Americans to get their flu shots this year in the hopes of thwarting a winter “twindemic”—a situation in which both influenza and COVID-19 spread and sicken the public. But a new study suggests that there could be another key reason to get a flu jab this year: it might reduce […]
How Indigenous Communities in Canada Organized an Exemplary Public Health Response to COVID
The unequal impact of COVID-19 on the health of certain groups, including Black, Latinx and Native Americans, became clear from the outset of the pandemic. The Navajo Nation, Diné Bikéyah, made headlines throughout May 2020 when its per capita COVID-19 infection rate surpassed that of every U.S. state. But although COVID-19’s rates in Canada have […]
One Climate-Change Wildfire Risk Lurks in the Dark
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How Indigenous Communities in Canada Organized an Exemplary COVID Public Health Response
The unequal impact of COVID-19 on the health of certain groups, including Black, Latinx and Native Americans, became clear from the outset of the pandemic. The Navajo Nation, Diné Bikéyah, made headlines throughout May 2020 when its per capita COVID-19 infection rate surpassed that of every U.S. state. But although COVID-19’s rates in Canada have […]