I agree with this: Clinton would be much worse than Trump, who doesn’t have any principles, whereas hers are terrible.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Blast From The Past
This is a bizarre story, to me, right out of the mid-90s. I didn’t know that NASA could grant an “exclusive license” for things that other people came up with, and I didn’t know that KST was still attempting to do tow launch.
Ban The Employment Check Box
Yes, this would be a quick solution to the academia scam.
[Update late afternoon]
Related: College loan glut worries policy makers. You don’t say.
What a scam. And it continues to enrich the banks and universities with no risk to them, while screwing over the students.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
When he’s right, he’s right: Yes, the Left is just as, if not more anti-science as “the right.”
Of course, the biggest way in which it is anti-science is in its denial of human nature, and belief in the blank slate.
The Lawless Gina McCarthy
Passage To Mars
I saw a pre-screening of the new film this morning, and talked briefly to Pascal and Jean-Christophe. Then we ran errands the rest of the day. I’ll have a review up somewhere this week. It’s a great documentary.
The Left
Is it closing in on the kill for America?
I’m sure it hopes so. It’s always hated the very idea of it.
Charles Koch
…and the Republic of Science.
There are few people in public life so misunderstood and/or mischaracterized as the brothers Koch.
[Update a few minutes later
Check out this amusing bit of projection:
“We really see higher education as the first cog in their political machine,” said Kalin Jordan, a co-founder of UnKochMyCampus. “They see themselves as creating the next generation [of libertarian thinkers] and in creating a next generation, they’re really pushing out any other thought on campus. They’re not interested in creating diversity of thoughts.”
Translation: “They’re fighting back against our successful decades-long fight to push out any thoughts on campus that aren’t leftist.”
The Real Donald Trump
I have no idea who it is, but the private one is clearly different than the public one. Profoundly ignorant in both cases though, on the issues of the day, and the narcissism comes through in bot cases as well.
Risk And Ethics In Commercial Spaceflight
Sara Langston has a new paper out. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks interesting (I may not agree with it entirely, but really don’t know).