A report on what appears to be an interesting lecture. Fracking is going to have a lot of unforeseen effects.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
I, Pencil
The movie, from CEI.
Passwords
…are obsolete?
Nanotech
Seven ways it’s changing our world.
NASA’s Safety Culture
Wayne Hale has an interesting excerpt from a recent speech by Admiral Gehman on the Columbia loss. I may incorporate this into my space safety book. Hard to believe that it will be ten years in February.
Telomere Length And Aging
There seems to be a correlation.
So what’s cause, and what’s effect, or are they both effects of some other cause?
Also, how much does it cost to determine one’s telomere length? And what are the prospects for increasing it, if that is indeed helpful?
Proteins
Now they just have to figure out how to get them to do useful things.
Elon Musk
The Maturity Of The Space Shuttle
Some thoughts from Wayne Hale. It was always an experimental system, and NASA is making exactly the same mistake with the SLS. If anything, they’re compounding it with the low flight rate.
Instapundit
A bleg. Does anyone have any idea why I can’t get anything more recent than 11 AM on the site, no matter how many times I reload? It comes in fine on my laptop, but not on my desktop. I’m in Firefox.