We’re flying to Nashville today, where I’m going to be on a panel on commercial space with Bob Poole and Katherine Mangu-Ward on Friday morning as part of Reason Weekend (it used to be in Orange County, but…). Then we’re spending a few days in the Smokies. I’ll have a laptop with me, though, so I won’t be incommunicado.
Private Space Stations
A good overview from Jeffrey Kluger.
Ableist Orgies
This Twitter thread is hilarious.
Stop Counting “Cases”
Covid is over: “As of Friday, just 2.15% of hospital beds nationwide are in use for COVID-19 patients, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”
The Return Of The Third Horseman
We’ve had pestilence and war, and now famine appears inevitable in the near term.
Russia’s Debacle
What we can learn from it. “If there’s any lesson in this for Washington, it must be to ask: how much of America’s power is myth like Russia’s? Dare we collapse the wave function? If too much is spin then put it not to the test, but keep on bluffing until the reality is restored. You can’t live in the narrative forever.”
Eating Plastic
Is it killing your gut?
I rarely drink out of plastic bottles. And most of the water I drink comes from our four-stage reverse-osmosis filter. Not sure where else I’d be getting plastic.
Government Schools
I would not send my kid (or any kid) to one.
Quitting Disney
I got six months of Disney+ free from my Verizon account. The six months is up, though, and I now get the pleasure of cancelling it and telling them why, like Karol.
Brownian Motion
…as an energy source?
We’ll see.