Throughput: Excited Delirium Edition
There’s been a concerted effort to pressure medical examiners to diagnose excited delirium when the real cause of death was positional asphyxia.
There’s been a concerted effort to pressure medical examiners to diagnose excited delirium when the real cause of death was positional asphyxia.
Gemini was ill-prepared for a second generation of internet trolls that have platforms on Fox News and the New York Post.
I was six months old the last time an American spacecraft soft-landed on a moon. And I’m getting a routine colonoscopy next month.
Watching Stewart in his familiar set and doing his familiar schtick was a stark reminder of how poor his successors have been.
Pseudo-moons, or more accurately quasi-satellites, are fascinating objects and we now suspect that basically every planet in the Solar System has them.
There is a vacuum in political discourse right now that is-for the moment-being filled by the most famous woman in the country: Taylor Swift
Various grifters have rushed to blame this on “DEI” policies at Boeing. But the problems are more conventional: corporate greed, regulatory capture and a culture of cutting corners.
Ron DeSantis’ final parting shot at “the establishment” was pathetic. My dude…you WERE the establishment candidate
The triumph of vaccines is being prevented by unscrupulous grifters and liars, bolstered by the anti-vaccine rhetoric of the COVID pandemic.
If they keep going like this, I fear the Artemis program will be cancelled before anyone touches lunar soil
The present moment seems to demand more from the university presidents than they are capable of delivering.
Miyazaki taking one last chance to repeat everything he’s been trying to say while still dazzling us with a fresh and original story.
A bevy of results have emerged that have shown, pretty conclusively, that the last few years saw the biggest drop in learning ever measured
I take advantage of the Thanksgiving Holiday to give out my awards for 2023 Turkeys of the Year and Golden Drumsticks.
The collision hypothesis: that the early Earth collided with a Mars-sized object. This week, we got a big hint that this theory is right.
Finally, my long-promised reaction video to the 1995 classic Apollo 13.
Earlier this week, the International Space Station sprung a leak. The leak was not life-threatening, but was concerning.
So was there a reason to fear that the test of the Emergency Alert System earlier this week? No. Glad we could have this conversation.
The question I’m beginning to ask more and more when I see this sort of thing is: who the hell is this “they” you’re talking about? Let’s go through this…
And so here we are, 16 years later, a nation of 330 million people sniffing, snarking and snarling because a drug that has never demonstrated efficacy beyond placebo was foisted upon us as a replacement for a drug that actually, you know worked.