Thursday Throughput: Zebra Stripes and Supernovae
Yes, there are stars within a few hundred light years that will go supernova. No, we don’t have any way of predicting when it will happen.
Category: Science and Technology
Thursday Throughput: Arrakis, New Caprica, and Us
In the decades to come, we’re going to learn a lot about alien planets. It would not surprise me at all if we found ones like New Caprica or Arrakis.
Heisenberg’s Billboard
’90s music is messed up for the same reason my suburban Seattle city isn’t the most dangerous city in the United States. And that reason colors everything you consume on the internet
About that Clean Water and Air in West Virginia
There is much about environmental sciences/climate change debate that I do not know much about. The water and air in West Virginia? That I know about.
Thursday Throughput for 9/12/19
I don’t think there are enough exclamation points out there for me to express how gob-smacking this is.
Thursday Throughput for 8/22/19
A new treatment for Ebola, if administered early, can cut the fatality rate to 6%, a stunning reduction from the normal rate of 75%. We now have this and a working vaccine.
Greta Thurnberg’s Semi-slow Boat Upon the Stormy Seas
Which is exactly why, regardless of cause, adults should be slow if not completely adverse to putting children out in front of their political causes.
Thursday Throughput for 8/1/19
I’m not one of the “we have 12 years to save the planet” doomsayers. But it does feel like we are approaching an inflection point. We will survive; but our options for how we will survive are narrowing rapidly.
Josh Hawley Is From the Government and He’s Here to Help
Josh Hawley, like all ambitious men, is telling you who and what he is about. We should listen.
Tech Tuesday 07/22/19 – Cool Electric Motorcycles Edition
And if that isn’t the coolest damn thing you read all day…
Thursday Throughput for July 18, 2019
People talk about American Greatness. Well, astrophysics, if I do say so myself, is one the places where America is truly great.
Tech Tuesday – Spooky Action Edition
To be honest, this is the first I’ve heard of Octonions, and when I first read the title, I wasn’t entirely certain they weren’t talking about a layered root vegetable.
Thursday Throughput for July 4, 2019
This has happened to me. More than once. In her defense, I think she was probably just nervous. So I post it more for amusement than mocking.
Thursday Throughput for June 20, 2019
I really hope to live long enough to discover that we aren’t completely alone, even if the neighbors are only one-celled organisms.
Tech Tuesday 06/18/19 – “Is Plastic-Man Biodegradable?” Edition
Why does it always take longer to unpack than to pack it all up?
On Climate Change, DNC Decide There Is Nothing to Debate
The Democratic National Committee declined the calls by some to have a debate solely about climate change.
Thursday Throughput for June 6, 2019
If Musk’s full system comes on line, the simple fact is that no one has done the kind of careful study needed to figure out the impact of this constellation.
Workplace Automation Stands to Hit Women Harder Than Men
Most, and probably all of these job functions, are on track to become partially or entirely automated in the coming years.
Thursday Throughput for 5/23/19
When people’s children are more likely to survive, they have fewer of them. This is a great triumph of the modern era.
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