Oh, man, we need one of these by me.
Most of my rattlesnake experience is in NJ, where they have not acclimated in the same way.
None of them belong anywhere near a Greek/Anatolian historical conflict based on that standard.
Murray only cares about the casting of a Black woman.
If you treat his ideas as if they're about anything other than gutter racism, you're either a fool or joining him in the gutter.
I chose a handful of Odyssey cast members at semi random. Their ancestries:
Irish, German, and French.
Brazilian and Canadian.
Scottish, Swedish, and Finnish
If you were bothered by "a distortion of historical setting", you'd be livid at the entire cast.
And, in the process, has suckered others into believing their racism has an evidentiary foundation. Anyone who tries to treat his ideas with respect at this point is only participating in the charade.
His response to this casting should leave no doubt about any of it.
I missed this when it came out, but dumping on Charles Murray and anyone who supports him or trolls their fellow students by inviting him to speak on campus is a bit of a pastime of mine.
He's a racist, has tried (and failed) to give his racism an intellectual veneer to make himself feel better...
Rattlesnakes are the best kind of venomous snakes, in that they will let you know in a way that's hard to miss where they are and that they're uncomfortable with how close you're getting.
I think recent history has shown that, if this administration is involved, the word "plan" should always be placed in scare quotes.
A couple of times a month, The Atlantic's PR group sends out an offer to let me interview someone about the reporting they've done for a story it has published.
I'm growing increasingly tempted to send back offers for them to talk to me about some of mine.
Makes it pretty clear that they're calling for their political supporters to create propaganda outlets for them. Hungary here we come!
Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.
You see this here with the kid saying "well, we could read the right books and have sufficient intellectual backing to make these judgements" and then immediately being forced to admit he'd never read a relevant book.
The thing that leaps out at me about these testimonies more generally is how often these kids get tripped up by some really basic questioning.
Kid: well, there's this other plausible justification for what we did.
Lawyer: did you actually do any of that?
Kid: LOL, no of course not.
Pretty clear that this guy was largely motivated by anti-LGBTQ animus.
You require more activity to maintain the same level of fitness. At the same time, life conspires to make it harder to be active through basic daily activities.
Put differently, when you need to be out walking around more, life hands you a desk job.
Active wind farms from 30,000 feet look pretty cool.
This will make some coal generation more economically competitive, enhancing the increase in coal use we saw last year.
That's coming at a time where the EPA has stopped enforcing a lot of pollution controls, meaning coal burning will be more toxic for nearby communities.
For anyone in the US thinking "well, that's Asia", let me run down a few things:
This demand will raise prices for natural gas anywhere it can be exported, and that includes the US.
That means consumers will pay more for electricity, and potentially heat and hot water.
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I love how inquiries to the journal at issue here are directed to a gmail address.
...i am genuinely curious about how MIT feels about a clarinet instructor using his MIT affiliation to give bullshit science a veneer of institutional authenticity.
are there rules about this? can any university scientists enlighten me?
Could you clarify the "Tufton St" reference?
Always nice to have my relative obscurity pay off.
With journalism contracting on so many fronts, it's a relief to know that outlets can still reserve high paying spots for people with thinking challenges.
Is he really this stupid, or is this a pure cynicism play on his part?
I realize Kennedy is likely to be replaced an even more problematic lunatic, but I still won't miss him when he's gone.
Great writeup by Carl on how studying viruses in a lab creates an evolutionary signature that we can detect even after they spread widely in humans.
("we" earlier meant "global humanity")
Nothing else can scale like this. Any proponents of other tech that are not talking about how it fits into a solar-dominated grid are not worth listening to.
Included in this story is a discussion of how solar has been scaling. Assuming that continues into 2026, we'll be installing over 3 GW of solar daily. Ballparking the typical capacity factor, that's going to be the equivalent of about 5 nuclear reactors every week for the entire year.
