It’s absurd that they come close to outnumbering faculty, let alone when it actually happens.
Category Archives: Business
The Case Against Science
“Much of it, perhaps half, is untrue.”
The incentives are quite screwed up.
Corruption In The Russian Space Industry
Bob Zimmerman says that it seems to be returning to the Soviet era. The Russians never learned how markets and competition actually work. As he notes, it’s not clear that this will help with their endemic quality issues.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Mind boggling financial irregularities at Roscosmos.”
Bachelors’ Degrees
America must end its addiction to them.
That one’s easy. End the federal student-loan program, and let employers use aptitude tests.
A Question About Evolution
No, not the scientific theory, the email client.
It’s sending mail, but none of the sent mail for today is showing up in the “Sent” folder. Anyone know what’s going on, or how to trouble shoot?
[Saturday-afternoon update]
OK, mystery solved. The “Sent” folder I’ve been looking at is the one that mirrors the server, and I’m seeing older message there from this week that I was sending from the server, via Roundcube, because I was on my laptop on which I’ve not set up or synched Evolution. The new ones were sent from Evolution, and were stored in the generic “Sent” folder. So I haven’t lost them, but they’re in a different place.
A Pill Of Superheavy Protective Fat
Could it prolong youth?
I’d take it, but I want one that reverses the process. Within limits, of course.
The Media
Forty-eight reasons to despise and distrust it.
Seems like a low number to me.
Space Tech Expo
I’m heading down to Long Beach. I’ll have my laptop, but blogging may be light.
The House SPACE Act
Some interesting proposed amendments. Dana wants to extend the learning period indefinitely. So do I. Hope this one passes, but it would still have to be reconciled with the Senate’s five years.
Climate Jihadists
California is currently at their mercy:
Meeting the new target of an 80 percent cut by 2050 would require the use of even more speculative technologies, including those that the CCST reserachers considered to be “in development, not yet available” or merely “research concepts.”
Yet such problems do not seem to impinge much on Sacramento’s political class. Any group willing, as is most egregiously the case with the Latino caucus, to wage war on their own people, are not going to worry too much about such subtleties.
So then, who wins? It’s certainly not the environment, but some of the oligarchs in Silicon Valley may benefit as they have been feeding at the renewable-energy trough at the expense of less-well-off ratepayers. Then there’s the whole bureaucracy, and their academic allies, who can enjoy profitable employment by dreaming up new ways to make life in California more expensive and difficult for average citizens – envisioning schemes that the taxpayers have to finance. And, certainly, the climate change agenda could benefit multifamily housing builders, who will seek to force often-unwilling Californians into residences in which most would rather not spend their lives.
At some point, people are going to get fed up, but we don’t seem to be close yet.