A blog devoted to things younger than John McCain.
[Via Geek Press]
Frustration
Phil Plait has a little rant about our (lack of) progress in human spaceflight. The usual pointless man-versus-robot debate ensues in comments. (I think that the post title should be “whither,” though, not “whence”–whence, which is often misused with the redundant “from whence,” means “from where,” while “whither” means “to where”.)
[Via Tom Hill]
Happy Blogiversary
Congratulations to Alan Boyle for six years of Cosmic Log.
News You Can’t Use
You know, if you really need these job interview tips, they probably won’t do you much good, because even if you follow them, you’re likely to do something equally or more stupid.
News You Can’t Use
You know, if you really need these job interview tips, they probably won’t do you much good, because even if you follow them, you’re likely to do something equally or more stupid.
News You Can’t Use
You know, if you really need these job interview tips, they probably won’t do you much good, because even if you follow them, you’re likely to do something equally or more stupid.
Some Graduation Advice
From P. J. O’Rourke:
Don’t moan. I’m not going to “pass the wisdom of one generation down to the next.” I’m a member of the 1960s generation. We didn’t have any wisdom.
We were the moron generation. We were the generation that believed we could stop the Vietnam War by growing our hair long and dressing like circus clowns. We believed drugs would change everything — which they did, for John Belushi. We believed in free love. Yes, the love was free, but we paid a high price for the sex.
My generation spoiled everything for you. It has always been the special prerogative of young people to look and act weird and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth’s resources of the weird. Weird clothes — we wore them. Weird beards — we grew them. Weird words and phrases — we said them. So, when it came your turn to be original and look and act weird, all you had left was to tattoo your faces and pierce your tongues. Ouch. That must have hurt. I apologize.
So now, it’s my job to give you advice. But I’m thinking: You’re finishing 16 years of education, and you’ve heard all the conventional good advice you can stand. So, let me offer some relief.
Read on. Some of it actually is good advice.
Some Questions For John McCain
From George Will:
You say that even if global warming turns out to be no crisis (the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade), even unnecessary measures taken to combat it will be beneficial because “then all we’ve done is give our kids a cleaner world.” But what of the trillions of dollars those measures will cost in direct expenditures and diminished economic growth–hence diminished medical research, cultural investment, etc.? Given that Earth is always warming or cooling, what is its proper temperature, and how do you know?
You propose a “cap and trade” system to limit the carbon dioxide that many companies can emit. Is not your idea an energy- rationing proposal akin to Bill Clinton’s BTU tax?
He has more, not related to climate change.
Not Again
Quite a bit of jousting in comments (including some by yours truly) about Expelled, science, epistemology, etc., over at WOC.
The Difference Between Harvard And A Hedge Fund
Not much, apparently.
It really does make it hard to justify their tuition. They should be giving out, and paying for a lot more scholarships.