Why it’s always bad advice. Good for Francis Collins for his honesty, though it’s far too belated.
Category Archives: Science And Society
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.
Heart Regeneration
Researchers are upbeat about it.
Well, if they are, then so am I.
Another “City On Mars” Review
Genital Preferences
My response to trans activists who tell me I can’t have them?
F**k you. Or, rather, if you have the wrong genitals, there is no effing way I’m going to f**k you.
Living And Dying In 3/4 Time
Thoughts on aging, from Glenn Reynolds.
I’m a few years older, but I view things similarly. I, too, have noticed more of my cohorts shuffling off this mortal coil (e.g., Chuck Lauer two or three years ago, and Mark Hopkins a year or so ago, though he had clearly been in poor health for a while).
I hope I have more than another twenty healthy years, but I obviously can’t count on it. And I don’t really know what “retirement” means, other than being able to do what I want to do, as opposed to what I wouldn’t voluntarily do if someone else wasn’t paying me to do it. I don’t golf, or have any hobbies, really, and I want to stay involved in space in what (despite my having lived through Apollo) is rapidly becoming the most exciting period of my life for that industry. I am still trying to make interesting things happen, and generate enough income from it for us to travel and enjoy life more while we have our health.
A Problematic Form Of Life Extension
Ummmm…no thanks.