“…in human history.”
Category Archives: Science And Society
Cats’ Killer Instinct
We feed ours grain-free food, and play with them quite a bit, with fishing poles and lasers. They go outside, but generally stay in the yard, and neither has gotten a bird in the two years we’ve had them. Also, since they were bottle fed almost from birth (their mother was too sick to nurse them, let alone teach them to hunt), they never learned.
Campus Diversity Efforts
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that they worsen stereotypes and racial understanding.
[Late-morning update]
More on what “anti-racism” does to schools.
Non-Stick Frying Pans
Why the food sticks sometimes.
I’d recommend against using sunflower oil, though. I use tallow, lard, or ghee.
The Hydroxichloriquine Scandal
How it wrecked America and the world.
I can’t recall any other drug that became so quickly and ridiculously politicized.
John Kerry
He’s back, in all of his tone-deaf glory.
Forget the fact that to first order, there are no solar-panel manufacturers here. Has anyone done an economic analysis of shifting from a high-density energy source to a low one? Kerry et al say that solar-panel production is the one in which jobs are growing fastest, but that’s meaningless outside the context of how many there are, or how low labor productivity they are in energy production, compared to gas and oil. It’s easy to grow something that is minuscule fast, but that doesn’t solve the problems of all the people Biden just threw out of work.
Biden’s Culture-War Blitzkrieg
Thoughts from Rod Dreher, but mostly quotes from Andrew Sullivan.
[Update Sunday morning]
Sorry, link fixed now, but the original one is pretty good, too.
Lockdowns Kill
441 people reportedly died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2019. In 2020, almost 260 more than that died, which is more than died from covid. Gee, what else happened in 2020 that might have increased the number of drug overdoses?
T Cells
…may tell how long someone infected with covid will be immune.
This would imply that people who are asymptomatic, or have a mild case, would be more susceptible to reinfection.
Delaying Aging
A new genetic therapy, from China, seems promising.