Don’t do it, but don’t force parents to pay for closed schools, either.
“Fund students, not systems.” Yes.
Category Archives: Business
Barbados
Is planning to let visitors stay and work remotely for a year.
That’s worth considering. It’s a very interesting place, with good diving.
Academia
This is a great opportunity to destroy it.
Honestly, it has been committing slow suicide for years, but yes, time to put it out of its (and our) misery.
The Cultural Revolution Continues
Thoughts from Jonathan Turley on canceling Steven Pinker.
[Update a while later]
The Woke mob’s “reign of terror” moment.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is genuinely concerned that genocide is coming to America.
There are still a few people alive who remember what happened in Germany in the thirties, and no one in the twenties could have imagined it could happen. The irony, of course, is that the people most likely to do this think that Trump is Hitler.
Boeing’s Spaceship
…it still really, really sucks.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Sorry, link is fixed.
I’m starting to wonder if Boeing will ever fly crew on Starliner. It’s clearly not going to happen this year, and Starship work continues apace.
Scamocracy In America
Thoughts on our corrupt ruling class.
Our Space Future
This is an excellent overview.
The Latest From Boeing
If I’d been one of those AvWeek reporters, I’d have asked her to expand on that.
Moon Metals
An interesting new discovery by LRO:
“If this hypothesis is true, only the first few hundred meters of the moon’s surface possesses little iron and titanium oxides, according to NASA. ‘But below the surface, there’s a steady increase to a rich and unexpected bonanza,’ it said.”
At the Space Settlement Summit last fall in Pasadena, a Canadian mining engineer berated the assembled for lack of seriousness when it comes to lunar resources. “You have no idea what’s under that dust,” he said, “and you won’t until you get up there and start drilling.” I thanked him for the comment, noting that for people who claim to want to develop the solar system, we think really small, likely from hanging out with NASA too much.
Space Settlements
Robin Hanson says we will colonize the sun first.