This is quite the breakthrough, but the people doing it are engineers, not “scientists.”
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Biden And China
Electing him would cede the world to it.
It certainly appears that way. As the man said, Biden has been wrong on almost every foreign-policy issue for decades.
[Friday-morning update]
He’s not the best politician that money can buy, but he’s what they have.
[Bumped]
The Artemis Accords
OK, it’s simply some high-level, unobjectionable principles (other than to Moon Agreement fans), but seems like a long way from draft agreements. And why only bilateral? I guess they want to work off the framework of the ISS agreements. The devil, of course, will lie in the details.
Regulations
We need to continue to cut the red tape, for an economic recovery.
Mark Kelly, Worldview, And China
A long history. I hadn’t realized the degree to which Kelly and China were involved.
I wonder how this will affect the race? McSally is not a great campaigner, but this might help her hang on to the seat.
Welcome To Covid College
I’ve been thinking and saying for a while that this has finally burst the higher-ed bubble. Dominic Green agrees.
WTF
We were watching recordings of Fox News shows and had left the channel on Fox News. But when the recording ended, and we went back to watching regular television, Frontier had magically changed the channel to CNN.
If Work From Home Becomes The Norm
…Manhattan faces a reckoning.
Indeed.
Can We Trust Covid Modeling?
One silver lining in this catastrophe may be more appropriate skepticism about climate models.
The Latest Elon Bashing
I’m glad this guy’s not in charge of anything.