Thursday Throughput: Doomsday Rock Edition
You may have heard an asteroid is headed our way? Do we need to worry? The short answer is no. The long answer is in this week’s video:
Tagged: Astronomy
Thursday Throughput: RFK Jr Edition
Time to talk about RFK, Jr. who has been nominated to head one of the most powerful positions in government, Health and Human Services.
Mini-Throughput: Rockets Rockets Everywhere
It’s been crazy week or two for space. But it was also a crazy week for rockets, with no less than three major launches in the span of a week.
Throughput: Migrant Stats Edition
Unfortunately, it takes me a thousand words to explain a lie that can get hundreds of thousands of retweets before I’ve had breakfast.
Throughput: MPox Redux Edition
So, are we about to go into COVID-style lockdowns? Is MPox going to be The Big One? Not necessarily.
Throughput: COVID Blogger Edition
To hell with the government of China whose lies and cover-ups blocked any chance we had of containing this virus
Throughput: The Kids Are All Right but the Surgeon General Isn’t Edition
To the extent that social media is a problem, it is because they amplify efforts to instill young people with a constant sense of dread.
Throughput: Fireball Edition
Last week, a spectacular fireball lit up the skies over Europe. Behold a few videos:
Thursday Thoughput: Fixing Spacecraft Edition
Fixing spacecraft is astonishing work: debugging a fifty-year-old computer at a distance of 15 billion miles.
Thursday Throughput: Collapsing Bridge Edition
[ThTh1] In 1993, Amtrack’s Sunrise Unlimited train derailed at the Big Bayou Canot Bridge, killing 47 people. Investigation showed that a heavy barge had turned up the wrong branch of the Mobile River and...
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.
Throughput: Oydsseus Edition
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.
Throughput: Zoozve Edition
Pseudo-moons, or more accurately quasi-satellites, are fascinating objects and we now suspect that basically every planet in the Solar System has them.
Thursday Throughput: Boeing Edition
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.
Thursday Throughput: Schooling Edition
A bevy of results have emerged that have shown, pretty conclusively, that the last few years saw the biggest drop in learning ever measured
Throughput: Worlds Collide Edition
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.
Throughput: Leaky International Space Station Edition
Earlier this week, the International Space Station sprung a leak. The leak was not life-threatening, but was concerning.
Mini Video Throughput: Emergency Zombies, Neuralink and iPhones
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.
Thursday Throughput: Decongestant Edition
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.
Thursday Throughput: HELA Edition
There are more HeLa cells out there than there were in Lacks entire body. The problem is that none of this was consented to by Lacks or her family and they never received a dime from it.
