Why they must be programmed to kill.
Mojave
Popular Science takes a deep dive into the town, its past, and perhaps its future. It’s a tough place, for now, to retain employees.
Regulating Medical Devices
A new paper from Mercatus, citing me and the book. In fact, I used the FDA as another example of a risk-averse bureaucracy in the book.
Economic Growth
Why we need it much more than democratic socialism.
Socialists don’t understand that in order for wealth to be distributed at all, it has to be created.
Dog Years
Lengthening them with a new anti-aging drug. Humans come next.
Spacefest In Seattle
Though the program doesn’t (yet) reflect it, I’m going to do a talk and book signing there on Saturday afternoon, November 7th. Attendance does require museum admission, though ($20). But it’s probably worth it if you’ve never been to the Museum of Flight, and maybe even if you have. I also hope to be able to visit some of the area space companies early the following week before coming back to LA.
“Fratricidins”
Researchers have come up with a way to get cancer cells to kill each other.
Faster, please.
Snowliage
These are beautiful scenes I never saw in Michigan, because we don’t have any real mountains.
Temperature And The Economy
Well, this is a twofer from Borenstein: Junk science and junk economics.
NASA Can’t Go To Mars
It’s essentially illegal. My latest column, about NASA in the movies and in real life, at USA Today.