The relationship goes back to neolithic times.
Category Archives: Science And Society
A Cold-War Antiseptic
This seems like it should be a bigger deal:
“The drug, miramistin, was developed for the Soviet Space Program. While little known in the West, it blocks or kills flu, human papillomaviruses (HPV), coronaviruses, adenoviruses and HIV, according to University of Manchester scientists.” [Emphasis added]
The Cultural Revolution Continues
Thoughts from Jonathan Turley on canceling Steven Pinker.
[Update a while later]
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.
Scamocracy In America
Thoughts on our corrupt ruling class.
Heterogeneity, And Covid
Some thoughts from Tyler Cowen.
We really need to get a better understanding of how our genetics interact with the disease.
[Update a while later]
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.
Our Space Future
This is an excellent overview.
Cholesterol
It’s nice to see more published recognition of this, but it’s only news to people who haven’t been paying attention.
Hydroxycholoriquine
How many people did the media’s anti-Trump hysteria kill?
Moon Metals
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.
Space Settlements
Robin Hanson says we will colonize the sun first.