Thoughts from Jonathan Turley on canceling Steven Pinker.
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The Woke mob’s “reign of terror” moment.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is genuinely concerned that genocide is coming to America.
There are still a few people alive who remember what happened in Germany in the thirties, and no one in the twenties could have imagined it could happen. The irony, of course, is that the people most likely to do this think that Trump is Hitler.
Thoughts on our corrupt ruling class.
Some thoughts from Tyler Cowen.
We really need to get a better understanding of how our genetics interact with the disease.
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The benefits of pooled testing.
I don’t understand why they haven’t been doing this. Other than, of course, continued incompetence at the CDC.
This is an excellent overview.
It’s nice to see more published recognition of this, but it’s only news to people who haven’t been paying attention.
How many people did the media’s anti-Trump hysteria kill?
An interesting new discovery by LRO:
“If this hypothesis is true, only the first few hundred meters of the moon’s surface possesses little iron and titanium oxides, according to NASA. ‘But below the surface, there’s a steady increase to a rich and unexpected bonanza,’ it said.”
At the Space Settlement Summit last fall in Pasadena, a Canadian mining engineer berated the assembled for lack of seriousness when it comes to lunar resources. “You have no idea what’s under that dust,” he said, “and you won’t until you get up there and start drilling.” I thanked him for the comment, noting that for people who claim to want to develop the solar system, we think really small, likely from hanging out with NASA too much.
Robin Hanson says we will colonize the sun first.
How old is he in human years? It turns out that it’s not multiply by seven. It never made a lot of sense to me that it would be a linear relationship. I’d like to see them do cats now.
This could be an interesting salon on Thursday.