Sounds like a maintenance problem to me. There’s no excuse for a fuel leak in an aircraft like that.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Calorie-Restricted Mice
…live longer on lard than they do on fish oil.
I’d say the science on saturated fat is settled.
Fixing Broken Bread
An interesting article on going back to pre-industrial wheat.
It isn’t clear the degree to which grain is intrinsically bad for us, and to which it’s been made much worse by the current varieties and processing methods.
I found this an interesting statement: “The giant band of wheat that stripes the center of America is a byproduct of the industrial age.”
That could be said of many unhealthy things, including the public school system.
When Science Goes To Court
A new paper on adjudicating disputes in climate science. It’s a travesty that it’s had to come to this, but it’s what happens when science becomes politicized. And in fact, I’d like to see a class-action suit against Michelle’s school-lunch program as child abuse on a massive scale.
Center For American Progress
They issue a press release saying that Apollo to Mars is financially feasible. Yet another leftist politico-economic fantasy.
Why We’re Stuck On Planet Earth
I found this piece pretty unimpressive.
"The tropics are awesome, we'd never survive at high latitudes, it takes too much technology." — some paleolith guy https://t.co/jmC6lGkTY8
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) October 28, 2015
Lowell Wood
Ashlee Vance, author of the biography of Elon Musk, has a nice (and fascinating) piece on him.
A Cancer-Fighting Virus
…has been genetically engineered.
I propose that anti-GMO types not be given access to it. Of course, if they stick to their…guns…they would refuse it.
The Martian As Time Travel
It takes us back to our society half a century ago.
As I’ve said repeatedly, the part of the film that requires the most suspension of disbelief is that NASA would ever be sufficiently audacious and cost effective to send someone to Mars.
Vegans
That time they started a war with an Irish restaurateur that they were hilariously doomed to lose.