I think it’s important that kids learn it, but honestly, if I had to write long hand, I wouldn’t write. I detest the drudgery of dragging a writing utensil across paper. Without a keyboard, I have no idea how I’d have gotten through life.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
“Smart” Teevees
All I want is a large-screen video monitor I can feed a video signal to. I don’t need speakers, or Internet in it. But apparently, you can’t find one any more. I did a search at Amazon for “tv -smart” and no televisions came up.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Hey, this
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CRISPR
The first human embryos have been edited in the US.
[Update a couple minutes later]
New gene editing screening does thousands of genes at for cancer, and will scale to entire genome.
Wind And Solar
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that researchers have been underestimating their cost.
Space Property Rights
More common law than Marxism, and that’s a good thing. I am cited.
Aging
How close are we to defeating it?
There are no laws of physics that require it. I’ve been taking NAD+.
[Update early afternoon]
This is interesting. Patients on an anti-cancer drug with gray hair see it turn dark again.
A Liberal Party
Bob Zubrin thinks we need one. I haven’t read the whole thing, but I generally agree. (Yes, I know it’s a few months old, but I just ran across it, and not much has changed.)
Jordin Kare
We’re losing a lot of our generation of space people.
I would note that one who will be missed less than others, who died last month, was Thomas Lee Elifritz.
[July 24th update]
Paul Gilster remembers Jordin.
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The Bulk Interior Of The Moon
Water on the moon seems to be like gas and oil on earth. The more we look, the more we find.
Elon’s Mars Plans
Eric Berger reports that he’s probably getting more realistic.