…would be a terrible place to live.
I agree with the piece, though I don’t like the phrase “credentialed scientist.”
[Saturday-morning update]
I’ve discovered the Missing Link.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Peer Review
A spot-on rant.
It is highly highly overrated.
Automated Vehicles
I probably won’t be able to make it, but this looks like an interesting symposium later this month.
Bill And Loretta’s Meeting
Was he plea bargaining?
Probably.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bill and Loretta don’t have an “optics” problem; they have a corruption problem.
And on what legal basis did the FBI ban video or photos of the meeting? That doesn’t inspire confidence. Someone should ask Comey.
[Update a few more minutes later]
More thoughts from Austin Bay. This stinks to high heaven.
[Update a while later]
Well, no need to. Whatever the reason you did it, I’d assume that it’s mission accomplished now.
[Update a while later]
Hillary will be interviewed by the FBI this weekend. I’m sure that meeting between Loretta and Bill had absolutely nothing to do with this.
[Noon update]
Well, well, well. The plot thickens. If this story is true, Bill completely ambushed her. I can’t think she can be happy about that.
[Saturday-morning update]
Steve Hayward has some theories.
[Afternoon update]
Have you noticed that the left is much more upset by that meeting than anything her Highness is purported to have done?
It’s because they fear the cover on the political fix was blown.
Space And Time
Louise Riofrio has a new Kickstarter project to highlight her cosmological theory.
Zika Vaccines
Two of them gearing up for use after success in mice.
Well, that seems like a bit of good news.
“Grooming”
Ladies, there may be good reasons to do a Brazilian clear-cutting (won’t anyone think of habitat-destruction of the lice?) but “hygiene” isn’t one of them.
[Friday-morning update]
Thoughts from a (female) gynocologist.
SLS/Orion
Donald Robertson has an op-ed at Space News that reflects many of the themes of my monograph (which, by the way, I have updated with feedback from the past couple days).
Whole Foods
…isn’t just ripping its customers off, it’s endangering their health.
I rarely shop there. The prices are outrageous, and the benefits vastly overstated. “Organic” is largely a scam. I never pay a premium for it.
Solar Cells
Bendable solar cells, much thinner than a human hair.