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Category Archives: Science And Society
Sympathy For Claudine Gay
She is a piece of work. Be sure to get to the end where he roundly fisks her resignation letter.
[Update a while later]
Link fixed now, sorry.
Pain Relief
It’s something that I’ve been fortunate enough to rarely need, but researchers have discovered a promising new compound.
Claudine Gay
…has gone away.
I’m not as optimistic as Glenn is that this, or October 7th, represented a sea change. She is, after all, still at Harvard as a full professor, despite her obvious mediocrity and venality. But I hope that it’s woken enough people up from woke that the Democrats will finally (and deservedly) lose the automatic Jewish vote.
[Update a few minutes later]
She’ll do fine. Sadly.
Two Weeks To Trial
Readers may find this of interest, but I have no comment.
“Trust The Experts”
Why it’s always bad advice. Good for Francis Collins for his honesty, though it’s far too belated.
A New Cancer Treatment
This seems to be a huge improvement over conventional surgery.
Space-Time Santa Dynamics
Chad Orzel answers the important questions.
AIAA SciTech
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.
Vaccine Studies
…find a catalog of harm. And that doesn’t even include cardiac issues.
I am not regretting not getting any of the vaccines.