Jay Bhattacharya has been up, then down, and now up again. His academic pedigree has always been stellar: it’s Stanford all the way, from undergrad to medical degree to PhD in economics. Then work at RAND, teaching at UCLA, then … Continue reading →
It’s no surprise at all, although if you’d have said a year ago that it would happen, most people would say you’d lost your mind. I’m not a big RFK fan (see this, for example), but I can’t say I’ve … Continue reading →
So much news … (1) Pay now or pay later, but somebody pays. And I’m surprised that the WaPo is reporting on this: Rooftop solar is a disaster: 1. In California, rooftop solar has shifted electricity costs so that poor … Continue reading →
It was a long long time ago – perhaps fifty years ago – when I first heard the claim that Christopher Columbus was Jewish. In the intervening years I’ve also read that it’s not so. But that’s why it was … Continue reading →
John Kerry’s not alone in putting down free speech, of course. He’s speaking for the elitist left the world over, who want to block free speech in the name of wanting to block “dangerous disinformation.” The former Secretary of State … Continue reading →
Here are some questions from commenter “Brian Turner” about the effect the pager and walkie-talkie explosions will have on flight security: While I admire Israel’s audacity, it raises two questions: 1. When will TSA ban laptops, tablets and mobile phones … Continue reading →
… which is that for the most part terrorists rely on the creations of Western technology. 9/11 was an excellent example of that. In a jijitsu-like move, the terrorists turned a modern Western invention – jet planes – against one … Continue reading →
By now you’e probably read about the Olympic women’s boxing match in which a genetic male’s blows were so hard that the female opponent gave up after 46 seconds, in dramatic fashion: Italy’s Angela Carini quit 46 seconds into her … Continue reading →
How? Why? Here’s what I’m talking about: Suddenly, in late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers used data from several space and ground-based observatories, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very … Continue reading →
I noticed a discussion in the comments about whether RFK Jr. was against vaccines more generally, or just the newer technologies (the latter of which I assume refers to mRNA vaccines like COVID). I’m highlighting my answer in this separate … Continue reading →
No, I’m not talking about those ubiquitous Amazon delivery trucks dominating the city roads. I’m talking about this discovery: Researchers have detected a cluster of lost 2,500-year-old cities at the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon rainforest. This amazing … Continue reading →
First, for those who are not familiar with Schrödinger’s cat: In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive … Continue reading →