Is the sun heading for a new Maunder Minimum?
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In which there was an attempt to get a skeptic’s PhD revoked. Because, you know, we can’t have skeptics involved with science.
[Afternoon update]
The sacrament of the bulb. It really is indistinguishable from a religion.
A long but interesting article at The Economist. There are some lessons here for space settlements.
Well, Jonah has risen to the challenge.
It’s what’s for dinner.
Again.
The latest on the global warming scam, from Walter Russell Mead.
A discussion of the legal and political issues.
Jonah Goldberg, call your office.
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Thoughts (and reality check for Stern) from JPet.
We know who. And a lot of people were warning about it at the time. And I think it’s going to eventually result in Israeli tanks on the banks of the Nile.
This is a weird comment thread on a post about the latest crusade of the nanny state — against salt.
This would actually be good for me, because I have cut way back on the salt over the past few months, and have thereby reduced my blood pressure, but neither my salt intake, or anyone else’s, is the business of the FDA.
[Update late morning]
More thoughts on the FDA and sodium at Reason.