A good overview from Jeffrey Kluger.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Ableist Orgies
This Twitter thread is hilarious.
Stop Counting “Cases”
Covid is over: “As of Friday, just 2.15% of hospital beds nationwide are in use for COVID-19 patients, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”
The Return Of The Third Horseman
We’ve had pestilence and war, and now famine appears inevitable in the near term.
Russia’s Debacle
What we can learn from it. “If there’s any lesson in this for Washington, it must be to ask: how much of America’s power is myth like Russia’s? Dare we collapse the wave function? If too much is spin then put it not to the test, but keep on bluffing until the reality is restored. You can’t live in the narrative forever.”
Eating Plastic
Is it killing your gut?
I rarely drink out of plastic bottles. And most of the water I drink comes from our four-stage reverse-osmosis filter. Not sure where else I’d be getting plastic.
Government Schools
I would not send my kid (or any kid) to one.
Quitting Disney
I got six months of Disney+ free from my Verizon account. The six months is up, though, and I now get the pleasure of cancelling it and telling them why, like Karol.
Brownian Motion
…as an energy source?
We’ll see.
Clogged Arteries
This looks like an interesting approach, but I’m skeptical until I better understand what the rodents were actually fed. A “western high-fat diet” is a meaningless phrase. What kind of fats? Saturated? Seed oils? There is no scientific evidence that eating fat per se creates arterial plaque. How many and what kind of carbs were they getting?