He wants to tunnel from his office at Hawthorne Airport to LAX.
Category Archives: Business
Seat-Back Video Screens
Just when they finally seem to be almost ubiquitous on American, the airline is starting to phase them out:
“More than 90 percent of our passengers already bring a device or screen with them when they fly,” American told workers Tuesday in a message. “Those phones and tablets are continually upgraded, they’re easy to use and, most importantly, they are the technology our customers have chosen.”
The move marks a reversal for Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker, who said less than a year ago that American would have seat-back screens on all of its planes to remain competitive. The carrier this year will receive the first four of its 100 Max aircraft. A decision hasn’t been made on whether to extend the policy to other new planes.
What I hate about them is that it’s almost become a crime on the planes to have a window open in daylight. Being able to look out the window is one of the main reasons I prefer window seats. I hope that bandwidth and cost improve on the in-flight Internet, because I hate Gogo.
Curing Mouse Diabetes
…with pancreases grown in rats:
“These results demonstrate not only that the rat-grown mouse pancreas is functional, but also that it is readily accepted by the immune system of the genetically matched recipient,” said Nakauchi. “In the future, any human organs generated in this way may also be functional and accepted by the immune system of the patient who donated the pluripotent stem cells.”
These results are exciting, but it’s ultimately a proof of concept if you look at what scientists hope to accomplish in the long term. “Their study is well executed and we’re happy to see the result,” Jun Wu, a research associate at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California who was not involved in the study, told Gizmodo. “But that’s rats and mice. To move to humans you have to take another step forward.” Rats and mice are much closer on an evolutionary scale than say, rats and people, or people and sheep, though scientists are working on growing human cells inside pigs as we speak.
Faster, please.
The Invisible Graveyard
We need an FDA commissioner who sees it. That also would apply to criminally terrible government dietary advice.
The Paleo Diet
Gee, so it turns out that it won’t kill you after all:
Even short-term consumption of a Paleolithic-type diet improved glucose control and lipid profiles in people with type 2 diabetes compared with a conventional diet containing moderate salt intake, low-fat dairy, whole grains and legumes.
The biggest nightmare for Big Pharma is that we can treat Type 2 diabetes (which seems to be a diet-related “disease”) with an improved diet.
High-Speed Rail
Unlike the California plan, this might make sense. No serious mountains between Dallas and Houston.
Scott Pruitt And The Environment
Yes, this is an argument about what constitutes “pollution” and how best to deal with it, not whether or not we are indifferent to it. But of course, if the Left had no strawman arguments, they’d have no arguments at all.
Site Problems
We had a corrupt data base that was confusing MySQL, but things should be fixed now.
Anti-Biotic Resistance
Reversing it with a single molecule.
Faster, please. I don’t want to go back to the early 20th century.
SpaceX’s Next Launch
…won’t have sufficient performance margin to bring the first stage back. Though I’m not sure what she means by “Heavy satellites need a lot of extra speed at liftoff.”