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Warming Harms the US More Than the Northeast
I’ve been looking at the recently released Fourth National Climate Assessment, the US government’s considered opinion on what climate change will do to the country. This program has been running since 1990, and is protected from hostile Administrations by legislation. … Continue reading
The Obsolescence of White Nationalism
I was sitting in a conference room the other day, meeting with a company that wanted to supply a component for a new chip we’re working on. These days most chips are assembled from big pieces from other firms. It’s … Continue reading
Immigration and the Nobel Science Prizes
It’s hard to take the current Administration’s stance on immigration seriously. Their policies are deliberately cruel, as in family separations, and clearly motivated by bigotry. In response, people have pointed to the 80 million US immigrants and their huge contributions … Continue reading
SF Inventors
Unlike other groups that I’ve written about (Beautiful Inventors, Political Inventors, Criminal Inventors and Movie Inventors), science fiction authors are known for their interest in technology. You would think, then, that a lot of them would have made real-life contributions, … Continue reading
Mad Science #4: Geo-Engineering With Nukes
Nuclear devices, what are they good for? Almost nothing, it turns out. They’re close to useless as weapons, since the goal of war is domination, not destruction. The nuclear powers have been in dozens of wars since 1945, and have … Continue reading
Who Is the Most Corrupt US Businessman?
Paul Waldman of the Washington Post was recently writing about the raid on the office of Donald Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, which is likely to uncover lots of shady dealings. Waldman wrote “He [Trump] may well be the single most … Continue reading
Google Is Getting Creepy
Facebook has always been creepy, of course, with its reliance on selling your personality to advertisers. People are shocked, shocked, that this would be used for political ends by Cambridge Analytica and other manipulators, but that’s basic to what they … Continue reading
