Safety should not be NASA’s highest priority. That way lies stagnation.
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Hey, Vance, was safety “the highest priority” for Apollo 8?
Safety should not be NASA’s highest priority. That way lies stagnation.
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Hey, Vance, was safety “the highest priority” for Apollo 8?
…versus real feminism.
Also, fuzzy wording. As Glenn notes: “…she’s a Harvard-trained lawyer, but says she can’t express herself with precision. Is this what feminism looks like?”
Words mean whatever they say they mean.
Jeff Foust has a review of the book (in the context of last week’s release of the 2013 ASAP report, which I’ve been meaning to comment on), over at The Space Review.
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And of course the server at The Space Review would go down the day that he reviews my book. I must have crashed it with my link. 😉
How the left stole the word “liberal” a century ago. We need to take it back. I refuse to call them that.
A good survey at The Economist on the coming tsunami on unskilled labor, for which no government is prepared. They’re right that the most important thing is to reform K through post-grad education, root and branch, but there are a lot of entrenched interests that will continue to fight that.
Why it’s becoming drenched in it.
Some thoughts on Jonathan Haidt’s work.
Note all the umbrage in comments from “liberals” (they’re not really — they’re leftists). But I’ve never seen them address the issue of why conservatives and libertarians are so much better at predicting a “liberal” viewpoint than the other way around.
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Bad link. Fixed now.
…is hilarious. Slightly NSFW.
This is pretty hilarious.
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Yeah, I should have put up a “slightly NSFW” warning on that.