Thursday Throughput: Why Masks Are Coming Back, In 1030 Words
Disease and pandemics used to be the norm. And, contra the historical revisionists, we often imposed restrictions like masks to control them.
Category: Science and Technology
Thursday Throughput: Leaving on a Superluminal Jet Edition
We are in a golden age of astronomy, with capabilities exceeding anything we’ve ever had before. And we’ve just gotten another glimpse into the universe
A Bad Number in A Good Cause: A Scientist’s Plea About COVID Vaccine Numbers
I am going to ask folks nicely: please please stop putting out COVID vaccine numbers like this. Without context, it is absolutely meaningless
Video Throughput: Kill the Moon? or Kill the Science with Doctor Who
We look at the science behind the Doctor Who episode “Kill the Moon” which has been a particular bete noir of mine.
Thursday Throughput: Units of Measure Edition
In describing the grandeur and scope of the universe, units intended for the human experience — meters, kilograms, liters — are simply not up to the challenge.
Calling All Grifters: On Hawking The Freedom Phone
How can one “Bitcoin millionaire” suddenly create a competing “Freedom” phone overnight? The answer is that…he probably can’t.
OT Contributor Network: Heard Tell Podcast on Facial Recognition Use by LE and Big Tech Regulation
The latest Heard Tell has James Czerniawski telling the story of facial recognition technology gone wrong at the hands of law enforcements
Video Throughput: The Science of Navigation
I take little moments of astronomy in the films Moana and Master and Commander to talk about how our ancestors navigated using the stars.
Thursday Throughput: Billionaires In Space Edition
For some reason, this billionaire space race has set off a wave of hand-wringing articles about how awful billionaires in space is
Video Throughput: Pericarditis From COVID-19 Vaccine? Edition
Are the recent reports of young people getting pericarditis from COVID-19 vaccine a reason to stop vaccinating them? Let’s take a look at the risks involved.
Tech Tuesday: Auto Code
Tech Tuesday’ normally about exciting new things that work. Today’s is about an exciting situation where new things likely to fail: code.
Thursday Throughput: Not So Fat Obesity Edition
The turn-of-the-century predictions of skyrocketing obesity proved incorrect and the scale we are using to judge health appear to be a few pounds too light
Video Throughput: HCQ Revisited
A video Thursday Throughput explaining why, no, the use of HCQ to treatment COVID-19 has not been vindicated by a recent preprint.
Tech Tuesday: Vegan Spider Silk
Vegan Spider Silk isn’t the latest character from the Spiderverse, reeking of patchouli & full of self righteousness about your eating habits
Thursday Throughput: The Boys Are All Right Fertility Edition
Activists will continue to milk the issue, but this new paper suggests we should hold off flogging this fertility panic for the time being.
Mini-Throughput: The Hope of Humping Humpback Whales
When I was a kid, it was accepted that humpback whales were on their way to extinction. Humpbacks are now listed as “least concern”.
Thursday Throughput: The Economy of Lockdowns
After a year of evidence, the claim that you must choose between saving the economy and stopping the virus is simply not true.
The Secrets of Cybersecurity Consulting
In a way, cybersecurity consulting transfers a lot of risk from organizational leaders and places it on an outsourced expert.
Colonial Pipeline Attack: The Pearl Harbor File
When I see incidents such as Colonial Pipeline attack, I am never surprised to learn the victim was bitten by a well-known vulnerability
Thursday Throughput: Brooding Cicadas Edition
Every 13 or 17 years, Cicadas mature to adulthood, fly around, make a hell of a lot of noise, and have an astonishing amount of bug sex.
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