Our experience has been quite similar to Virginia Postrel’s, and we feel very fortunate. I can’t imagine how terrible it must be to be cramped in an apartment with too many people, or what a nightmare this has been for parents with children. I haven’t seen divorce statistics for the year, but I’m sure they must be record level.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Space Solar Power
AFRL is planning to launch a demonstrator in a few years.
[Update a while later]
More from CleanTechnica.
The Space Show
David Livingston is having his year-end fundraiser, if you can help out.
Joe Biden’s Climate Idiocy
Mike Shellenberger fact checks it.
Happy New Year From Boston Dynamics
This is terrifying, or should be.
Origins Of Life
A new theory that could have useful medical implications.
Coming Together
Amidst all of the viciousness on social media, it’s nice to see people from all sides of the aisle coming together in grief at the loss of a colleague’s young daughter.
SpaceX’s Success
In which Drew Johnson doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about.
#ProTip, Drew. If you’re worried about taxpayer money being wasted on space progress, go dig into SLS/Orion.
Nashville
Gee, who might be motivated to set off a bomb on Christmas morning?
[Update a while later]
Police swept apartment buildings before the explosion, perhaps saving many lives. I wonder if there was a tip?
[Update a couple minutes later]
Steven Kruiser is collecting links.
[Late-afternoon update]
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds.
Yes, it does look like a rehearsal for an infrastructure attack. Or was it AT&T that was the target?
[Saturday-morning update]
A speculative Twitter thread.
A Match Made In Hell
Apparently this is a real commercial for match.com.