Thoughts on the coming Democrat breakup.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Treason
…of the science journals.
Science is badly broken.
Obsessing Over Elite College Admissions
Obeying Authority
…can be hazardous to your health.
What happened on Maui appears to be a mass murder by woke incompetents. At the very least, it was negligent homicide.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A lot of people should be going to prison for the Maui fires. Yes, but they almost certainly won’t.
AI
Arnold Kling says we are all wrong about it.
Well, maybe someone is right, and we just haven’t heard from them.
California’s Math Framework
…is flawed. Which doesn’t differentiate it from any of California’s other frameworks.
Trans Tyranny
I wonder if this is Olive Garden policy, or just that restaurant?
Anyway, I’m sure that the same people who demand that we agree with their mental infirmities also demand “trigger warnings” if we’re going to say something they’ll disagree with.
The Remaking Of America
A depressing litany of how far we’ve fallen in this century.
Room-Temperature Superconductors
Plus, more thoughts on actual science from Megan McArdle.
[Afternoon update]
Varda has already replicated the result (presumably in El Segundo). I should go pay them a visit.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
The latest on the story from Ken Chang.
[Bumped]
Industrial Revolution
Why didn’t the Romans have one?
Before I read it, the first thing I thought was this: “How are engineers to do experiments and calculations without any concept of the experimental method, and without anything close to the mathematical tools that are available today to any fifth-grader?”
As he notes, they didn’t have Arabic numerals, they didn’t have zero, they didn’t have negative numbers, or complex numbers. They had no higher math, and no way to get to it with their numbering system. One of the foundations of the industrial revolution was the invention of calculus, and understanding of physics, including thermodynamics. That was all happening in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The other thing that was happening was the invention of capitalism in the coffee houses of London and Amsterdam (which wouldn’t have happened had coffee not become a thing in the wake of opening the New World). It’s not clear how, even had Rome not fallen, how they would have ever had those foundations.
[Update a while later]
Link is fixed now, sorry.