Five reasons to switch to the new browser.
I’m going to try it, but not sure there’s an rpm for it, so may have to build.
Peer Review
It almost always provides a false sense of validity of a scientific paper.
Dear Scrotty Students
“You have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you.”
The inmates seem to be running the campus asylums.
All Sex Is Rape
This used to be the insane position of people like Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, but the American Law Institute is now proposing to codify it into law.
The SLS Disaster
Eric Berger writes that Congress is forcing NASA to eat its seed corn for the #JourneyToMars.
Yes.
#ProTip: If SLS made any sense at all, Congress wouldn't have to make it illegal for NASA to not build it. https://t.co/lK4mnV3ugO
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2016
[Update a while later]
This is a key point:
Since Tuesday, I have been asking communications officials in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate for clarification on what this extra funding will be used for and whether it’s needed. I haven’t received a response.
Because they don’t have a response. It is programmatic insanity to just throw hundreds of millions of dollars at a manager and expect them to spend it sensibly in a single year.
A Civil Rights Victory In Tennessee
Ending “gun-free” zones.
An “Interesting” Day For SpaceX?
Wonder if there was a problem in McGregor?
Well, that’s why they have test sites, and do tests.
The Latest In Apolloism
A defense of the SLS over at an Alabama news outlet. Let the fisking commence: Continue reading The Latest In Apolloism
The Smugness Of American “Liberalism”
A rare (and long) self-aware commentary from Vox.
My two cents: 1) As always, they keep using that word “liberal.” I don’t think it means what they think it means. 2) The demonization of Kim Davis (including her appearance) reminded me very much of the way Linda Tripp (the only person who told the truth in the Lewinsky affair) was treated. So this is nothing new.
Those Space Mice
Eric Berger has the story, including the fact that we’ve done absolutely no research in partial gravity, which will be necessary if people want to procreate on Mars.
I’d note that while it’s never officially been confirmed, it seems unlikely, given the nature of astronauts, that no one has ever done it in space.
Shuttle had very sensitive accelerometers. It's likely that Houston was aware of any rhythmic orbital exertions. https://t.co/RNnYSfnCyi
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) April 21, 2016