…judgmental jerks. I guess the science is settled.
Next up, vegans?
Equity-Based Crowdfunding
What effect will the new rules have? It will be interesting to see. At the least, it should make it easier to raise funds for “unfashionable” projects (e.g., space and other hard-tech startups). One of the interesting aspects made possible by the Internet is crowdsourcing for the identification of iffy projects.
Send In Your Nominations
…for the first Walter Duranty Prize for journalistic mendacity.
Is Keith Olbermann a journalist? I think that Tom Friedman deserves at least a nomination for his China worship.
The Occupiers At The NATO Summit
…are no match for capitalist pigs like Jonathan Hoenig. Heh.
Mere mockery is too good for them, but it’s too much fun.
Lipids
Interesting, and slightly dismaying. If true, the HDL/LDL ratio isn’t really important; all that really matters is the absolute LDL level. Still, a high ratio and reduction of total would reduce LDL. But the most important takeaway from a dietary standpoint is that you are not what you eat — there is little correlation between cholesterol intake and serum cholesterol. A failure to understand this over the decades has resulted in a lot of terrible dietary advice, including the kind that probably killed my father in the seventies.
The Barbarians Of Chicago
And I’m not just referring to these people:
I’m also referring to the barbarians in public office there (and DC, and New York) who defy Constitution and the Supreme Court, and the age-old right of the law-abiding to arm and defend themselves, because they willfully enable the barbarism.
A New Casting Technique
This could be a cost reducer for the space industry (among others). It might also be useful, eventually, for fabricating parts in space using local materials.
OWS
In honor of their latest vileness, @SooperMexican has started a new hash tag: #HonestOWSchants
Plus, he’s hijacked another one: #NoNATO
So here’s my question. How does this differ from the usual Marxist/anarchist violent asininity that generally accompanies G-whatevernumber or NATO summits? It’s the same moronic thugs, and nothing new. Well, except for the fact that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and top Democrats endorsed them.
“The Consensus Is What We Follow In Science”
A first-hand report on Michael Mann’s disengenuous and unhappy visit to the Happiest Place On Earth.
[Update a while later]
LOL. I just noticed the graphic over there.
Diagnosing Falcon
Well, as I expected, that didn’t take long:
Engine pressure anomaly traced to turbopump valve. Replacing on engine 5 and verifying no common mode. #DragonLaunch
So it’s a good thing it shut down — it could have resulted in a catastrophic engine failure in flight, something that SpaceX has theoretically designed for (they claim to have engine-out capability from liftoff, and sufficient inter-engine blast shielding to prevent fratricide), but probably doesn’t want to test, at least this early in the program. Also, they had no performance margin on this mission, so it probably would have meant an abort to a low orbit, and perhaps an inability to get to the ISS.
[Update a while later]
Here’s the story over at Popular Mechanics.