Thanks for the birthday wishes. Here is what I wrote in 2010 about Challenger.
[Update a while later]
On the thirtieth anniversary, there were still lessons to be learned. In fact, many remain to be learned today, on the thirty-seventh.
After Ten Years
Wayne Hale has been reposting his remembrances of the loss of Columbia.
Predicting The War In The Pacific
This is interesting. A marine did it two decades before Pearl Harbor.
Free The Meat
Yes, it’s ridiculous that we can’t get affordable venison at restaurants or the grocery.
Los Angeles
…has become a predator’s paradise.
The solution to this is to legalize prostitution, and re-outlaw streetwalking, and pimping. Like drug dealers, the pimps are empowered by the illegality.
The Assault Of Environmentalism
[Update a few minutes later]
Here come the bugs. We’ll own nothing, eat insects, and like it.
De-Aging
This guy lost me at the calorie-restricted vegan diet.
American Nomenklatura
What the Twitter files showed. An interesting history of content moderation.
Our Classified System
…is a joke. And yes, the Clinton case remains the most egregious miscarriage of justice in this sort of thing.
Gene Editing
I hope that this is just the first of many miracle cures.