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Category Archives: Technology and Society
NASA’s Mars Recruitment Posters
I think that these are a cruel fraud on a young generation.
The Islamic State
The best strategy may be to take advantage of the natural paranoia of the region and culture, and destroy it from within.
Generation Ships
Would it be moral to send one?
There are at least two flawed assumptions in this piece.
Guns And Muslims
I agree with Michael Totten, banning either of them is not the answer to Orlando.
An RD-180 Agreement
This should buy ULA enough time to get Vulcan flying.
A New Breakthrough In The Annals Of Academic Ethics
A new definition of research misconduct:
My previous post illustrated numerous ethical conflicts that can arise for researchers. But when it comes to conflicts between your conscience and your colleagues, or the public and your colleagues, any perceived responsibility to your colleagues has to take a back seat.
But it seems that in academic science, responsibility to your colleagues and their opinions, their declarations of consensus, their reputations, is apparently regarded by many researchers as the paramount consideration, viz. the circling of the wagons that occurred in Climategate.
This concern about ‘responsibility’ to your colleagues seems only to extend to colleagues who happen to agree with you.
Academic science, and academia in general, is very, very sick.
The Return Of The Rotary
This is a pretty cool development; a new take on the Wankel engine. Hope it works out.
Gays And Guns
Yes, they shouldn’t oppose them; they should arm themselves. These people shoot lots of people because they’re allowed to by misguided gun laws and location restrictions.
The American Heart Association
…continues to preach junk science:
The American Heart Association recommends a heart-healthy dietary pattern emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other nutritious foods and specifically that at least half of grain consumption should be whole grains. Whole grains provide many nutrients, such as fiber, B vitamins, and minerals, which are removed during the refining process.
No protein, no fat. This is the kind of diet that helped kill my father from his second heart attack decades ago, at age 55.