Category Archives: Technology and Society
Leaving California
The one thing she doesn’t mention about why people hate Californians when they move into their community; they’re afraid that they’ll bring with them the voting habits that have made the state such a disaster. I remember when we were in Austin a couple years ago, doing wine tasting in Hill Country. The tone of the conversation got distinctly chillier when they learned we were from CA. I tried to assure them that we weren’t the problem.
Cheese
It’s good for you, and full-fat is the best. This would have been heresy for much of the past half century.
Europeans Are Terrible
A new paper claims that the die-off of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century after colonization caused the Little Ice Age.
I’m skeptical.
[Update a while later]
A response to a query to Judith Curry.
Just spotted this. Its an interesting hypothesis, but a global impact seems a bit far fetched
— Judith Curry (@curryja) January 31, 2019
Differential Equations
An entertaining disquisition on teaching them.
Martian Water
They may be able to dig wells. I wonder how much purification it will require, given the permanganchlorates. Also, the well will have to have a heater to melt the ice, I suspect.
[For some reason I always write “permanganates” when I mean perchlorates]
The Climate Debate
CEI pushes back on Chuck Todd’s fantasy that it is over.
Cancer
I’m skeptical that these researchers have found a total cure (for one thing, it’s too many different things), but it would nice if it were true. I suspect that this is just a fundraising announcement, though.
The U.S. Space Guard
The National Space Society has come out with a policy paper on it. I haven’t read it yet, but it should be a useful reference for those who continue to confuse it and the Space Corps/Force.
Buzzfeed
No, like Al Gore, it did not create the Internet. It didn’t even create Facebook.