What’s coming up this week. Sixty Minutes should be interesting this evening.
[Afternoon update]
If you don’t want to watch the show, Space News has the transcript.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Global Warming Data
A new investigation into how much it’s been “adjusted.”
Treating Alzheimer’s
Faster, please.
Personhood For Non-Humans
Elizabeth Price Foley is appalled at some recent court decisions, and the trend.
I’ve got mixed feelings on this. I agree that they shouldn’t be given full human rights, but I do think we should make distinctions as a function of intelligence, and perhaps even recognize some degree of moral agency (e.g., dolphins). It also raises the issue of how we would treat extraterrestrials as a function of those things.
Apollo 13
The day it crashed into the earth, or something.
This story is depressing to me in what it says about the state of public education.
High-Speed Cars
Honda has an alternative to both HSR and the Hyperloop.
Makes a lot more sense to me.
The Martian
io9 likes it.
If it’s true to the book, it would be hard to screw up. Well, other than casting Matt Damon, anyway.
Space Situational Awareness
I haven’t read it yet, but this looks like an interesting paper on doing it commercially, from some people at Analytical Graphics.
Dean Ornish
First, Nina Teichholz, and now Scientific American dismantles the quack.
[Early-afternoon update]
Should we eat meat? Thoughts from (of all people) Bill Gates.
“Deniers” And Ideologues
Judith Curry’s warning to Bjorn Stevens: “In my quest to objectively evaluate the IPCC’s attribution argument and stand up for research integrity post Climategate, I was not ‘pulled’ away from the establishment community by ‘deniers’; rather I was ‘pushed’ away by scientists who were IPCC ideologues and advocates. Watch out.”
#ProTip: Use of the phrase "climate denier" makes you look like a derriere fedora.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015