Science Gone Too Far

Bark Bark Woof Woof notes The Atlantic's yr.-end science review. (O.K., really The Atlantic's recap of the biggest science/technology/health stories they reported from the yr. about to disappear.)

Even better, the entire item is reproduced at Bark Bark Woof Woof, so one needn't disable one's adblocker & put up w/ The Atlantic's horrid browser-seizing parade of advertisements for upper-class pigs, all of whom deserve to die.  (Heh heh. Little editorial aside there. DIE PIGS!!!)

A few we missed:

Humans have inadvertently created an artificial bubble around Earth, formed when radio communications from the ground interact with high-energy particles in space. This bubble is capable of shielding the planet from potentially dangerous space weather like solar flares.

America’s five most valuable companies are all located on the Pacific Coast between Northern California and Seattle.

The reason that dentistry is a separate discipline from medicine can be traced back to an event in 1840 known as the “historic rebuff”—when two self-trained dentists asked the University of Maryland at Baltimore if they could add dental training to the curriculum at the college of medicine. The physicians said no.

And one we knew:

President Kennedy secretly had Addison’s disease, a hormonal disorder, which he treated with injections of amphetamines and steroids from Max Jacobson, a doctor whose nickname was “Dr. Feelgood.”