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— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —
This Issue’s Best of the Best:
*** Shingles vaccine results in having a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular disease
*** A Nation in Pain: Can New Approaches Turn the Tide?
*** Most Moms Are Happy—Despite What Parenthood Critics Claim
*** A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read — Here’s How to Teach Them
*** PragerU Video: Emasculating Boys (in the Boy Scouts)
*** Mississippi Schools Are Better Than Yours
*** Short Video: Why Reform Teacher Education? (This info in a document)
*** Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it
*** A Thorium Reactor Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
*** Just Say No to Battery Storage for Wind or Solar
*** The Spanish Blackout Shows Why the Green Dream Is Unsustainable
*** What Is Reactive Power and Why Is It Important in Power Systems?
*** Study: The effect of renewable energy incorporation on power grid stability and resilience
*** El Blackout
*** Carbon Capture: Costly, Useless & Harmful
*** Trump Crushes Climate Dogma as Europe Doubles Down on Folly
Secondary Education Related:
*** Mississippi Schools Are Better Than Yours
*** Short Video: Why Reform Teacher Education? (This info in a document)
*** Book: The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
The South’s Public-Education Revival
Higher Education Related:
*** Report: University: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Funds and Fundraising
*** Report: University DEI: Status Quo and Rebrands
*** It’s time to get serious about ideological balance on campus. Here’s how
*** In Austin, a Double Shot of Academic Counter-Revolution
Linda McMahon blasts Harvard in scathing letter
Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Admin Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools
Artificial Intelligence:
*** Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it
Is Realty Vanishing? AI Makes Americans Suspicious of Everything on the Internet
Spain and Portugal Power Grid Failure:
*** The Spanish Blackout Shows Why the Green Dream Is Unsustainable
*** What Is Reactive Power and Why Is It Important in Power Systems?
*** Study: The effect of renewable energy incorporation on power grid stability and resilience
*** El Blackout
Spain’s blackout is a flashing warning light for our renewable energy system
Did Spain’s push for renewable energy have any impact on its mass power blackout?
Over-Reliance On Renewables Behind Catastrophic Blackouts in Spain
The Spanish Blackout Is a Warning to the World
Greed Energy Economics:
Pennsylvania’s ‘Price Cap’ Could Hike Electricity Bills
Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure so permitting must stop
Unreliables (General):
*** Just Say No to Battery Storage for Wind or Solar
Wind Energy — Offshore:
RWE ending US offshore operations
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind industry keeps preying on Upstate NY region
Nuclear Energy:
*** A Thorium Reactor Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Epstein: Answers to student questions about fossil fuel growth
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, of Electric Vehicles
Misc Energy:
Rethinking the Future of Energy: The Real Clear Energy Future Forum
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Carbon Capture: Costly, Useless & Harmful
The Nihilism of Beijing’s New York Climate Radicals
UK To Experiment With “Dim The Sun” Projects To Stop Global Warming
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Trump Crushes Climate Dogma as Europe Doubles Down on Folly
US Election:
*** Most of Trump’s Election Integrity Executive Order Remains in Place
Confused about Ranked Choice Voting? View MFEI’s 4-min tutorial.
*** Video: My talk to Michigan legislators on Election Integrity (audits). (> ~ 6 min)
*** Report: A Performance Audit of Utah’s Election System
North Carolina needs better election audits
Former Colorado postal employee admits to stealing ballots ahead of 2024 election
US Federal Agencies:
What We Know About Casey Means—Trump’s New Nomination for Surgeon General
Why we need a free market in disaster insurance: the case of California wildfires
Misc US Politics:
*** Dhillon Promises Action To Enforce Trump’s Executive Orders On Civil Rights
Societally US:
*** Most Moms Are Happy—Despite What Parenthood Critics Claim
*** A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read — Here’s How to Teach Them
*** PragerU Video: Emasculating Boys (in the Boy Scouts)
Globalism:
The Fourth Turning: Globalism is Dead, Technocracy is Reborn
Science:
*** Cardinal Robert Prevost announced as first American pope
Book: A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age
Health:
*** Shingles vaccine results in having a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular disease
*** A Nation in Pain: Can New Approaches Turn the Tide?
Heart disease death risk raised by common household products, study finds
New organization: Healing Science Policy
COVID-19 — Misc:
*** Children’s Nightmare No Fairytale
Canadian Government Begins Testing Inhaled Covid mRNA ‘AeroVax’
Israel/Ukraine:
Pray for the safety of the Israeli people
*** Latest Developments in Israel
Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people
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*** Latest Developments in Ukraine
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