…are the historical equivalent of slave owners.
Uh huh.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Neil Tyson
We had a lot of fun with him over at Twitter this weekend, but this is the best piece I’ve seen describing why he’s such an obnoxious, bigoted pedant.
Space Policy
This is an interesting panel (it actually starts about half an hour in, I think) from last week’s Goddard Symposium. Four women (Marcia Smith, Lori Garver, Sandy Magnuson and Mary Lynne Dittmar) and one man, moderated by Frank Morring. As expected, Lori is quite politically incorrect.
Trump’s Speech Patterns
He talks a lot like Ross Perot.
Except without the east Texas twang.
The Cloud People
I totally get the anger that has created Trump. I share it. But I will never understand why they don’t see that he’s a false vessel for it.
Also, this is funny but sad, about Whole Foods customers.
[Update a while later]
This seems related: The new WASPs are Asians in Silicon Valley.
Outer Space
The manifesto of the committee to abolish it.
To be honest, I had never previously realized how terrible outer space is.
OLEDs
I hadn’t realized that lifetime was a problem for organic LEDs, but if it was, this appears to be a big breakthrough.
On The Radio
I did a show this morning with Jim Muncy and Paul Sutter at the NPR affiliate in Columbus, OH. I thought it went pretty well.
When Glaciers Are Sexist
I think we’ve come to the point at which academia is just one huge case of Poe’s Law.
Confident Idiots
A long but very interesting piece on the overconfidence of the incompetent, by David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger fame). For some reason, I think it has some relevance to the Trump phenomenon, and politics in general.
For the record, I have never had a problem claiming my ignorance on a topic.