There should be a reckoning, but there probably won’t be.
Category Archives: Science And Society
How Humans Burn Calories
Some interesting and surprising new research.
What the article doesn’t address, though, is the metabolic effect of different diets, which also influences calories burning. It does, though, reinforce the saying that “you can’t run away from a bad diet.”
Biden’s Base
Why he won’t end the Covid “emergency” for months.
I’m Sorry, Dave, But I Can’t Do That
ChatGPT is now (among other things) refusing to defend fossil fuel use.
The Unvaccinated
How they (that is, we) got it right.
The Assault Of Environmentalism
[Update a few minutes later]
Here come the bugs. We’ll own nothing, eat insects, and like it.
De-Aging
This guy lost me at the calorie-restricted vegan diet.
American Nomenklatura
What the Twitter files showed. An interesting history of content moderation.
Gene Editing
I hope that this is just the first of many miracle cures.
Rubble Piles
Asteroids may be a bigger problem than we thought.
One thought: Weave a giant net out of space-sourced materials and consolidate it, then tow with a gravity tractor. Or hell, a gravity tractor would probably work without the net.