Reflections on a anniversary of Covid insanity.
The Space Regulation Mess
Jeff Foust has a good description of the current state of play.
I think that this is bogus: ““The FAA, Department of Transportation, has been doing human spaceflight safety for many years…”
The FAA has never been responsible for human-spaceflight safety. In
fact, under the learning period, it has no legislative authority to do so. It has never done mission assurance for either satellites or participants. Does Rich DalBello really subscribe to this statement?
It also begs the question that any federal agency should be responsible for the safety of commercial spaceflight participants, either on the way to orbit, on the way back, or in space. The debate we should be having is not which agency, but whether the federal government should have responsibility at all at this point in time. I don’t see how Article VI requires it. I’m tempted to write an op-ed.
The Next Mania
I agree that it’s “climate change.”
Biden’s Middle-East Policy
…is beyond parody.
Nature Rights
Utah has outlawed them. I’d like to see other states do this (it will never happen in California). In fact, I’d like to see some version of this in a codicil to the Outer Space Treaty.
The Reckoning Over Puberty Blockers
This was mass physical child abuse on a criminal level. Many should lose their medical licenses. And that’s just the drugs, not the mutilation.
[Update a few days later]
J. K. Rowling and the Cass Report victory. Rowling has been on fire over this.
[Bumped]
A “Fasting-Style” Diet
Seems to have previously unknown benefits to the brain.
The problem with this article is that (a) they don’t really describe what the “fasting-style diet” is, in terms of how long the fast, or what days they do it, and (b), as with most nutrition studies, it’s probably based on self reporting, and it’s not clear that there are any controls.
I do suspect, though, that we didn’t evolved to three squares a day, which would have been hard as hunter gatherers, which is one of the ways that agriculture screwed up our health, though it allowed the existence of orders of magnitude more unhealthy people.
I personally fast almost every day until evening. Dinner (or supper, depending on your local vernacular) is my literal breakfast, though I don’t have bacon and eggs then.
Rebranding DEI
We knew this was going to happen, because racists gonna racist.
Art That’s Just For Me
Thoughts on AI creations, from Lileks.
The Corruption Of Climate Science
“…it occurred because some of our most important institutions have let us down. The scientific peer review process has failed to catch obvious methodological errors in research papers. Leading scientific assessments have ignored conflicts of interest and adopted flawed methods. The major media has been selectively incurious as to the impact of big money in climate advocacy on climate science, assessments, and policy.”