Category Archives: Education

Business, Economics, Education, Science And Society, Space, Technology and Society

AIAA SciTech

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As you can see in the left sidebar, I’m planning to attend next month in Orlando. They used to be in San Diego, and I haven’t been to one since before the pandemic. ASCEND was a huge upgrade over their previous annual space conference, and I’m curious to see how much SciTech has changed in the past few years.

As you can see from the program, it has a wide variety of papers on not just space (my primary interest, as always), but aviation as well. The number of simultaneous topics is overwhelming (as it has been in the past), but I’ll be interested primarily in sessions on space resources, space assembly and servicing, life support for larger facilities, nuclear propulsion (both electric and thermal), human logistics in space and space medicine, advances in additive manufacturing, AI applications and, of course space policy. I’ll also be discussing my own participation in the Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force, which was first announced at this event a year ago.

I don’t know if there will be any news broken there, but if there is, I’ll be blogging about it here. I won’t be attending Friday, because I have to be in DC. But I will be there Monday through Thursday, and I hope I’ll see some of you there.

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Advocating For Genocide

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Thoughts from Eugene Volokh.

The problem to me is that we’ve overbroadened the definition of genocide to the point that it’s lost useful meaning. I don’t agree that simply killing large numbers of an ethnic group justifies being called that. While what the Japanese did in Manchuria was atrocious and horrific, and clearly a war crime, I don’t think that it was genocide, because I don’t think (correct me if I’m wrong historians) that it was done with an intent to wipe an ethnicity off the face of the planet. Similarly, while what we did in Dresden and Tokyo and other cities was arguably a war crime, it was not genocide. But what the Nazis did clearly was, and what Hamas is calling for, and those college students are supporting (“gas the Jews”) clearly is.

Business, Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

The B-Team

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More like the C-Team, actually. What happens when mediocrities are promoted.

[Update a few minutes later]

Related: Academics thrill to rape and murder.

[Update a while later]

Is Gen Z turning against Western civilization? And thoughts on Weimar America:

…the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.

Yes.

[Afternoon update]

The people who mobbed the Jewish restaurant in Philly are total psychopaths.

[Wednesday-morning update]

Addressing the rot in the universities.

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[Friday-morning update]

Genocide and Jews at Harvard.

And are Americans finally starting to see the depravity of academia?

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[Update a few minutes later]

Reverse speech codes aren’t the answer.