The left likes to use all forest fires as opportunities to blame climate change. But here’s the probable cause for the destructive fires in Maui: But some experts said they suspect human development on the island is at least partly … Continue reading →
And a supposedly non-addictive one. Of course, many painkillers that ended up being addictive were originally touted as non-addictive, so I would be cautious. On the other hand, this drug works through a different mechanism: The pill, known for now … Continue reading →
Here’s an article from Hot Air that got a lot of links yesterday. An excerpt [emphasis mine]: We keep being told that injury to the heart from the COVID vaccine is very rare, but a study done in Basel Switzerland … Continue reading →
The other day, commenter “AesopFan” offered the following quotes from astronomer Carl Sagan, who died in 1996: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the … Continue reading →
From Matt Taibbi: The problem that’s been threatening Western democracies for years, and which is captured in books like Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public, is the widespread loss of faith in institutional authority. At first this was a … Continue reading →
As I’ve done a deep dive into the transgender phenomenon and its current abuses regarding the medical treatment of children, I’ve watched an enormous number of really informative videos. I’ve only linked to a couple here, but there are many … Continue reading →
I’m too old to have watched Mr. Rogers as a child. But as I watched him forty years ago with my own child, I found some of his messages a little obscure. For example, there was the song that follows, … Continue reading →
Let’s get far away from politics, if only for a moment. Far, far, far away. For the second time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has looked for and failed to find a thick atmosphere on an exoplanet in one … Continue reading →
From Legal Insurrection comes this example of many people eager to take back things they said or wrote some time ago about the lab leak theory of COVID’s origins: Professor Robert Garry, a respected microbiologist who works at Tulane University … Continue reading →
Say “government sources”: Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the … Continue reading →
Solar panels apparently only last about twenty-five years, and then what? They have to be replaced, but what happens to the old ones?: The world’s solar energy generation capacity grew by 22% in 2021. Around 13,000 photovoltaic (PV) solar panels … Continue reading →
I wonder. There’s this supposed incident (hat tip: commenter “Snow on Pine”); the original story as reported went this way: Hamilton described a scenario at a summit hosted by the United Kingdom-based Royal Aeronautical Society in which Air Force researchers … Continue reading →