I really need to start doing this.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Preventing Heart Attack And Stroke
…using CT scans?
Faster, please.
Defeating Aging
…using AI?
Faster, please.
The Sarah Palin Smear
Was the New York Times sloppy, malicious, or careless? I think they were reckless. I won’t discuss the interesting parallels to my own legal case.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I like this comment:
Any settlement must include an apology printed on the front page of the Sunday Times, in large, boldface font, above the fold, including the statement: “The New York Times hereby acknowledges that the editorial was written by dishonest, ignorant, malicious idiots who perfectly represent the quality and tenor of this publication in general.”
If I were her, that’s what I’d demand.
So Much For That Narrative
Pr0n featuring violence against women is more popular with women than with men. I’m not entirely surprised. But it sure blows a hole in the “rape culture” theory.
Life Extension
And health extension: interesting new web site. Note that one of the founders is Gary Hudson.
Seventy
…is the new sixty.
I’m glad that I don’t feel my age. I was having some new lower-back pain, probably sciatica, in the spring, that I was afraid was going to be a permanent feature of life, but it seems to have healed.
Cats
How they domesticated humans thousands of years ago.
[Update a few minutes later]
Another take on the same subject.
The #JourneyToMars
…seems to be pretty much dead.
#JourneyToMars was never alive.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) June 20, 2017
Cancer Metastasis
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have figured out how to slow it, with existing approved drugs.
Faster, please.