This is truly bizarre. I don’t think I’ll try it with Rerun, though, even though I happened to buy a cucumber the other day. She gets enough abuse.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Space Settlement And Starships
Kim Stanley Robinson says they’re impossible.
I call Clarke’s Law about distinguished scientists, even though he’s just a fiction writer.
Heart Disease
Google is committing $50M to conquering it. Considering how much it costs (as the article points out), this is chump change.
Peer Review
Is it time to end it?
Yes. It’s as worse-than-worthless as the climate models, in that it provides far too many false positives. And as we saw with Climategate, it’s too easy for it to become “pal review.”
Climate Science
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on the tremendous uncertainty.
The models are worse than worthless as a guide to policy.
A Vegan, Liberal Environmentalist
How he went from climate promoter to climate skeptic.
It’s amazing how pathetic the warm mongers’ “arguments” are. It’s one of the ways you can tell it’s not science; it’s ideology and religion.
[Update a while later]
Bjorn Lomborg on the trivial effects of current climate proposals. But the economic impacts would be far from trivial.
A New Alzheimer’s Treatment
…seems to have general rejuvenating effects on mice.
And human trials start next year.
The Book Review You’ve Been Waiting For
Paul Ehrlich, on Mark Steyn’s latest.
Desalinating Water
I wonder if there’s a catch? If not, this would be revolutionary.
Synthetic Messenger RNA
…to tell our bodies how to manufacture their own medicine.
Cool, if it works. Faster, please.