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NOTICE: Mark your calendar! Thursday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Benjamin Power is our first presenter in our upcoming online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. ***** During my entire life I have watched immigration-control advocates try valiantly to make their immigration-control system work. I’ve always been bemused because no matter how much failure the government has experienced, immigration-control advocates have never given up hope that Continue Reading

According to an article at CNBC, 60% of adults said they are living paycheck to paycheck. According to an article at Forbes, about a third of Americans were unable to save any money in the past year. According to an article at Yahoo! Finance, while financial advisors recommend savings of $1 million to $2 million for retirees, the average 70-year-old has only around $426,000 in savings. On top of that, consider how much the value of people’s money is debased each decade through the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve. Welcome to the welfare-warfare state way of life, which plunders and loots people’s income to fund … Continue reading →

As I read about the life and death of billionaire Charles Feeney, I could not help but think what America’s welfare-state way of life has done to destroy many people’s faith in freedom. According to an article in the New York Times, Feeney was “a pioneer of duty-free shops and and investor in technology start-ups.” He became a billionaire. And then he donated all of his $8 billion fortune to charity. He left himself around $2 million. Continue Reading

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 12, at 7 p.m., we continue our new Austrian lecture series entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Our speaker: Mark Skousen, the greatest libertarian philosophical entrepreneur in history — and one of the most renowned Austrian scholars in the world. Mark Skousen speaking at FreedomFest. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Mark is the organizer of the famed FreedomFest, which Continue Reading

NOTICE: TONIGHT, Thursday, October 12, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Mark Skousen is the presenter in our online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link for an intellectually fun and enlightening session! ****** Sometimes I just can’t help but be amused by defenders of America’s socialist system of immigration controls. They point to the large number of migrants who are crossing America’s southern border and to all the migrants Continue Reading

Abstract The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NTLR) and absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) recovery are prognostic across many cancers.

Abstract DNA is a danger signal sensed by cGAS to engage signaling through STING to activate innate immune functions.

Ammonia production enzymes mediate the initial attraction of C. elegans towards P. aeruginosa. Here, Marogi et al show that the bacterial small RNA, P11, affects worm attraction by modulating nitrogen assimilation.

Abstract Common Reed Phragmites australis , globally one of the mostly widely distributed wetland plants, is important for biodiversity and for humans.

Lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrolytes are generally composed of a mixture of organic hydrocarbons and lithium salt (e.g., LiPF6). Experimental density data for basic and realistic multicomponent mixtures are scarce in the literature, and a predictive model for electrolyte solution density is not yet widely available. This work resolves to create a simple predictive method that can be used to estimate the density of these mixtures. A model that accounts for intermolecular forces in the electrolyte mixture was developed and fitted to density data available in the literature that was internally vetted for consistency. The model exhibited high accuracy for single-component electrolyte mixtures, with most predictions falling within 1% of measured values and all predictions falling within 5%. The model was further extended to more realistic, multi-solvent electrolyte mixtures that exhibited similar accuracy. In addition, a novel, accurate method for computing absolute molar and mass fractions of multi-solvent mixtures with specified volumetric concentrations (e.g., 1.2 M LiPF6 in 1:1:1% vol. ethylene carbonate-EC/diethyl carbonate-DEC/dimethyl carbonate-DMC) is also described. The two separate approaches were combined to yield a modeling framework capable of computing molar concentrations and densities of all LIB electrolyte solutions based on LiPF6 loaded in any combination of EC, EMC, DEC, DMC, and PC. Additional ionic salt data for NaPF6 and LiFSI were also evaluated to illustrate the adaptability of the model to different salts and electrolytes. Once again, the model was successful, with most density predictions falling within 1% error and all falling within 5%. This work ultimately provides a simple, adaptable modeling framework for accurate prediction of electrolyte mixture densities.