Heading for a polar “orbit”? Well, if so, at least it won’t overfly Japan.
First Tweet Ever
Happy birthday, Twitter.
Huge News For Startups
The JOBS Act won a cloture vote in the Senate. There was a lot of fear that the Senate would muck it up with a lot of inhibiting requirements, but now it will go on for a vote.
A Victory For Due Process
SCOTUS has slapped down the EPA. It’s insane that this case even had to be brought in the first place.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s Scalia’s majority (actually, unanimous, that’s what I meant by “slapped down”) opinion. It should be noted that it was not just the EPA that was slapped down, but (once again) the Ninth District.
[Update a while later]
They get their day in court, but they may still lose. As noted in comments, they need a legal fund, though I suspect they’re getting pro bono support from free-market places.
Is Climatology Pseudoscience?
Some thoughts from Judith Curry (and indirectly, Gary Taubes).
I think that it’s become pretty clear that regardless of the status of climatology per se, many of its leading practitioners, or at least, most-public proponents, have shown themselves to be pseudoscientists. And specifically, I mean Michael Mann, Phil Jones, and James Hansen among others (not to mention the disgraceful and disgraced Peter Gleick).
An Important Anglospheric Question
Is there an American equivalent for “snogging”? Is it different than smooching? If not, then should we adopt this side of the pond?
Breitbart’s Children
The real ones, not the figurative ones. A trust has been established to take care of them.
Bigelow Aerospace
…is starting to hire again. Not sure what it means.
I Think I’ll Move There
An Italian town has outlawed death.
When death is outlawed, only outlaws will die.
Bernard Beard
Some of you may recall numerous comments on statistics and physics here by commenter “bbbeard.” Sadly, I just received notification that he died over the weekend:
Where: Memphis Botanical Gardens (in the Japanese Garden)
750 Cherry RoadMemphis, TN 38117
Phone: 901.636.4106Date: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Time: Gathering at 10:00am with Service to begin at 10:30am. Lunch to follow, ending at 1:30pm
Donations can be made to either of the following:
Keystone School
119 E. Craig Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
Phone: 210.735.4022Donations Link: https://websvr.keystoneschool.org/cc/misc_fund.asp
Or
MIT Department of Physics
77 Massachusetts Ave., Bldg. 4-309
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617.452.2807
Donations Link: https://giving.mit.edu/givenow/browse-designations.dyn?categoryId=DP,DPPH
He was a former colleague of mine at the ARES Corporation (though I never worked with him). The comments section here (as well, of course, as his friends and family) will miss him.