Nobel Prize winner Al Gore is also a warmonger:
The trouble is that Gore’s preferred policies will lead to a poorer, energy starved world. Far better, one might think, to tackle malaria, sea level rise, drought, hunger, and so on directly rather than by tinkering with the chemical composition of the atmosphere. As Indur Goklany has shown, we can do this for a fraction of the cost.
In the future, people will marry robots. Well, we knew we were headed down a slippery slope with all the gay marriage stuff. I’ll bet Massachusetts will be the first state to allow it. The state supreme court will no doubt insist.
Anyway, I, for one, welcome our new robot overladies.
In the future, people will marry robots. Well, we knew we were headed down a slippery slope with all the gay marriage stuff. I’ll bet Massachusetts will be the first state to allow it. The state supreme court will no doubt insist.
Anyway, I, for one, welcome our new robot overladies.
In the future, people will marry robots. Well, we knew we were headed down a slippery slope with all the gay marriage stuff. I’ll bet Massachusetts will be the first state to allow it. The state supreme court will no doubt insist.
Anyway, I, for one, welcome our new robot overladies.
Iowahawk has dug up another teevee classic from our childhoods.
Randall Parker writes about the biggest barrier to medical advances:
If you read the full article above you’ll learn that the first experimental subjects for a Novato California company were in Argentina – not exactly close by. I suspect this says something about medical regulation in America today. The Argentines were on hemodialysis for kidney failure and had what the report below characterized as “typical risk factors for end-stage renal disease”. You might expect regulatory agencies to grant greater freedom of action to try out new treatments on people who are looking death in face. But this company used subjects from another country. I fear excessive regulatory obstacles in the way of new treatment development are costing lots of lives.
I suspect that the FDA probably kills more people by delaying the introduction of new drugs and procedures than it saves. But it’s like protectionist policies and other interferences with the market–the jobs and businesses that aren’t created are an invisible consequence compared to existing jobs that are lost, and a bureaucrat is much more concerned about being blamed for a death that results from a new drug than one that results from its delay, because the latter is just a maintenance of the status quo.
Randall also has bad news about avian flu. It may be easier for it to mutate to affect humans than we thought.
Jon Goff has an interesting flight safety analysis that might indicate that NASA is spending too much money on launch vehicle reliability for a lunar program.
I’ve always thought of myself as more left than right brained, but according to this, I’m definitely right brained (assuming that “clockwise” means the direction when viewed from above). I can’t see it going the other way. Which makes me question the validity of the test.
[Update at 10 AM EDT]
Funny, I just went back and looked at it again, and this time it was spinning the other way, but then it stopped, and reversed direction and went clockwise again. Weird.
Everyone else has been linking to this piece, but (contrarian that I am) I’ve been bucking the trend. But after actually reading it, I could understand why they have, so I am as well.
Jimmy Carter, of all people, calls Dick Cheney a “disaster.” I suspect that the vice president will have too much class to respond, but the response would surely be entertaining.