Can My Evangelist Keynote Your Summit?
Cybersecurity conferences were a huge racket. I am not implying anything nefarious or illegal: it was just a very profitable business model.
Category: Science and Technology
Thursday Throughput: Masks Edition
They have been doing this garbage for almost a year now: cherry-picking single weak studies that support their point and ignoring the massive swaths of studies that dispute them.
The Student, The Teacher, and Zoom
We now have a chance to evaluate all the extraneous investments to design a much more effective and efficient educational institutions
Mini-Throughput: Yes, Virginia, There Is Still A Pandemic Going On
We are in the midst of a catastrophic surge in the virus that matches or exceeds what we experienced earlier this year.
Thursday Throughput: Luna Water Edition
An interesting revelation and a reminder that our understanding of even our nearest neighbor is incomplete.
DOJ, 11 States File Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against Google
It’s been brewing for years, but the day has come. The US Government along with 11 states are going after Google.
Space Junk
The Space Age has brought us miracles. Losing those abilities would be devastating. And losing a future of lunar bases, asteroid exploration and deep space missions would be a tragic cap on human ambition.
Thursday Throughput: Bigger Better Earths Edition
We are in the early days of an exciting phase of astrophysics: an age of exploration of planets outside our solar system. The science has been moving fast. It’s going to start moving even faster.
Thursday Throughput: Solar Cycle Edition
The Sun has just entered a new solar cycle…In other words, the clock continues to tick. And it’s about time we did something about it.
Mini-Throughput: Life on Venus Edition
This week the internets exploded with reports of a possible detection of life on Venus. Well … kinda.
When Politics Ignores Science
“What’s it like?” Tim Ingalsbee repeated back to me, wearily, when I asked him what it was like to watch California this past week. In 1980, Ingalsbee started working as a wildland firefighter. In...
Thursday Throughput: Big Black Hole Edition
This isn’t just a matter of a winnah and new champeen though. We’re learning how massive black holes are built.
Dancing with the Asterisms
Asterisms, personified as so many lords and queens, rule us, but they do not govern with a static scepter. The scepter is a prop, a baton, in truth, as they dance.
Cause of Death
We have a tendency to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow human if we think they did something to deserve it
Thursday Throughput: Polio Eradication Edition
Remember, a vaccine doesn’t have to give “sterilizing immunity”, in which you can’t catch the virus ever again. If it simply builds our resistance to the virus so that COVID-19 infections are mild, that will be enough.
Thursday Throughput: Galactic Cannibalism Edition
Sagittarius is not being “obliterated”. It’s finishing the process of joining our big happy Galaxy a little faster than we thought.
Thursday Throughput: The Hope of a COVID-19 Vaccine
There are 200 teams around the world contributing to the one of the biggest and most dramatic scientific efforts in human history: a COVID-19 vaccine
Flash: Requiem For a Toolkit
After ages of limping along, gradually being deactivated and blocked behind security warnings, Flash is finally being put out of its misery.
Vacation Throughput: Comet NEOWISE
It may be decades before we see another one like NEOWISE. Or it may be next year. Who will I be when the next one comes? Or where?
