It does feel like a huge clash of visions coming. And one of them is an Orwellian nightmare.
Rationality
How to be rational about it.
Unsustainable California
What can’t go on, will eventually come to a stop.
I think the only question is how it will play out.
[Update at noon]
Mark Pulliam is voting (again) with his feet.
[Update a few minutes later]
Boise residents: “Go back to California.”
States Like Virginia
How they go blue.
Republicans don’t do much to help.
Snowflakes
Flanders Fields
Pricing Health-Care Services
Any elective procedure should be transparently priced. That’s it’s not is one of the disasters of the current health-insurance situation.
Launch Costs
In light of the latest admissions, some thoughts from Wayne Hale.
Our “Elites”
…don’t see what’s coming.
There’s nothing particularly “elite” about them, other than power.
Age-Resistant Mice
…with hyperlong telomeres.
“These unprecedented results show that longer than normal telomeres in a given species are not harmful but quite the contrary: they have beneficial effects, such as increased longevity, delayed metabolic age and less cancer,” concludes the team.
The telomere theory has been around for decades, but we seem to be getting closer to actual implementation.