Kids are terrorized pointlessly about lots of things, including climate. Or maybe the point is just to be submissive to the state.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Silent Spring
After fifty-seven years, Rachel Carson’s book is not aging well. It will always have its defenders, though.
[Not sure why headline says “at 40.”]
[Thursday-morning update]
OK, it’s because the article is from seventeen years ago. Unlike Carson’s book, though, it does still hold up.
They Don’t Know Clouds At All
But maybe they can get better at modeling them. Our lack of ability to model clouds to date is one of the things that makes me a skeptic on climate alarmism.
Climate Millenarianism
Thoughts on people like Greta Thunberg, with some history.
Cialis
Can it reverse heart failure in addition to its on-label use? That would be a nice bonus. I wonder what its effects on blood pressure are?
Radical Green Ideology
It has taken over and corrupted professional engineering and science societies.
Sexbots
The technology continues to improve:
Realbotix has recently fitted its Harmony models with a new “vaginal sensor”. This enables the machine to respond to tempo and pressure before producing its own response. Brick previously told us: “Now they have developed a vaginal sensor for inserts they put in to the doll, the robotic body, and now as you thrust into the sensor when you’re having sex the sensor is a reactive strip, that sends the stimuli to the brain, to tell it how deep you’re going, how hard you’re going and how hard you’re thrusting. “Now you have all of that information coming into the AI and it’s calculating and responding appropriately.”
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Disasters In Deep Space
Aging Brain Decline
Thwarting a protein reverses it in aged mice:
The team used two techniques to block VCAM1: One of them genetically deleted the protein from the mice’s brains. Another injected an antibody that binds to it to stop anything else attaching. Both methods prevented signs of brain aging in young mice infused with old plasma and reversed existing markers in elderly mice brains. The researchers then gave the mice learning and memory tests. In one, which involves remembering which of several holes is safe to drop through, treated elderly mice performed as well as youngsters once fully trained. “The aged mice looked like they were young again in terms of their ability to learn and remember,” Dubal says. “It’s remarkable.”
Faster, please.
The Mann Lawsuit
We have filed a petition to the Supreme Court to grant a writ of certiori.
[Mid-morning update]
National Review has filed as well. Their petition is here.
[Update mid-afternoon]
A reminder that we have 24 amici curiae in this. I suspect they’ll join the petition, and Mann will remain amiciless.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I also see that in re-reading that (I may have noted it at the time), that they misspell “warm mongers” in citing the blog post, and attribute my Jerry Sandusky comment to Mark Steyn, who was quoting me.
[Friday-morning update]
Here’s the press release from CEI. And the Daily Caller has a story on it.
[Bumped]