Geothermal technology is heating up.
Category Archives: Economics
The Russian Space Program
This is a week and a half old, but I didn’t link it at the time. Eric Berger documents its decline.
The Woke Bazaar
Thoughts on the faux virtue and good intentions of the Left. Related: Why young Americans are no longer taught about evil.
Obsessing Over Elite College Admissions
The Only Reason To Explore Space
Yes, it’s unclear that, absent physics breakthroughs, there will be any practical reasons to head off to another star.
Merging Lanes
You’re probably shifting out of your lane too soon.
Driving back from Yosemite on Thursday, Caltrans had shut down the right three (out of four) lanes on I-5 in Castaic. We lost one lane at a time, and the first merge was the slowest. Each next one sped things up, until we were all in a single lane, and moving at a reasonable speed. Part of the problem was that much of the traffic in the right lane was trucks (we were already in the left lane when the backup started). It added about twenty minutes to the trip time.
AI
Arnold Kling says we are all wrong about it.
Well, maybe someone is right, and we just haven’t heard from them.
Battery-Powered Cars
Just say no.
They seem like they’re fun to drive, but I would never want to rely on one as primary transportation, or for road trips.
Bidenomics
It was always insane to imagine that you could print money to pay people to be unproductive and not end up with inflation.
The Remaking Of America
A depressing litany of how far we’ve fallen in this century.