Daniel Hannan reviews Jim Bennett and Michael Lotus’s new book
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Freeing Our Minds For Space Missions
Bob Clark has some politically incorrect thoughts on how to get back to the moon.
Nuclear Power’s Future
It may be small reactors.
The industry is a mess because the government has been inhibiting innovation in it for decades, since the beginning.
The Mother Of All Trainwrecks
…has arrived.
Plus, Crashapalooza on the exchanges.
[Update a while later]
What ObamaCare and the debt limit have in common.
#BreakingBad
I’m guessing it will be hard to have #Sex after the finale, unless you’re #Evil.
Yes, this was a post made for #Twitter.
Eight Minutes To Launch
Things are looking good for a Falcon-9R launch from Vandenberg. I’ll be watching for it from the balcony in Redondo Beach.
[Update a while later]
Looks like everything went perfectly. Just waiting to hear if they had a successful relight and splashdown of the first stage. We didn’t see it from our place, though. Not sure if the house next door was blocking, or what. Next time we’ll go to the beach.
NSA Spying
…is making us less safe.
And making the government too powerful. Lord Acton had it right.
[Sunday morning update]
Link is fixed now. Sorry!
Engineering Less-Than 101
This is dramatically oversimplified. It only works for mechanical engineering.
Blackberry
How the mighty have fallen. It’s game over.
I never used one myself.
Bill Gates’s Nuclear Ambitions
I’m not a huge Bill Gates fan, but he certainly gets this important issue. Cheap energy is the key to reducing poverty. As long as government policies aren’t insane, of course. And we need it for space as well. The lack of progress in space nuclear reactors for the past half century is appalling.