The NIH, CDC, and FDA (not to mention the Department of Agriculture) have been a public-health disaster.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Reversing “Death”
This does seem promising for organ preservation, but it raises the issue (as cryonicists do) of when is someone dead? If it’s not information death, declarations are intrinsically premature, if the person can be put in an ambulance to the future.
George Soros On Criminal Justice
Basically, pretty much everything.
Artificial Intelligence
Thoughts on the coming age. A first of two essays.
It’s Not Enough To Be Pro-Choice
You must be anti-pro-life.
This is totalitarian.
James Lovelock
RIP.
To the degree that one agrees with the Gaia hypothesis, space settlers would be helping it reproduce.
Academia Is Neglecting Its Most Basic Function
Fossil Future
A book review.
The degree to which the apocalyptic climate religionists despise humanity cannot be overstated.
Air Conditioning
Remembering those days before it.
I remember sleepless summer nights in southeast Michigan. Our parents did get a window unit for their bedroom, but we sometimes slept outside on the balcony off our bedroom. I would wet a washcloth and put it over my forehead. It wasn’t usually a problem at our cabin up north, though.
But I’d be happy if it was outlawed in DC. A/C was the beginning of the downfall of the Republic, when that fetid swamp became a tolerable place to live for power mongers.
Rebooting The Moon
Leonard David has a good article on plans beyond Artemis. I’d like to attend that workshop at APL this fall, if I have the budget.