Archive for 2011
October 26, 2011
October 25, 2011
EUROPE’S RESPONSE TO CREDIT DOWNGRADES: A revival of “Seditious Libel?”
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Professor Fired For Being Too Tough? “They get him up here and toss him under the bus because some of the students wanted high school.”
ANTI-SEMITISM UPDATE: #OWS and the Socialism of Fools. “Scratch an anti-capitalist, and a Jew-hater bleeds.”
MEDICINE: Sounds gross, works great: Fecal transplants cure nasty C. diff infections. “A new review of more than two dozen scientific reports involving 317 patients, some dating back 50 years, finds that fecal bacteriotherapy, commonly known as fecal transplant, cured the problem in 92 percent of the cases. Nearly all got better after just one treatment. That’s a better record than other treatments, including probiotics, toxin-binding molecules and an experimental vaccine.”
ED DRISCOLL: The History of Green and Blue Screen in the Movies.
ALAN BOYLE: Ph.D. dance-off makes science sexy.
AT AMAZON, top deals in Electronics.
INSPECTOR GENERAL: Weaknesses On The Rise in Department Of Energy Cyber-Security.
CHALLENGING COLLEGE SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICIES. “I’m troubled by anti-harassment policies that seek to limit the ways adult thinkers and learners can relate to one another. After all, we’re adults.” They don’t want you to be adults. They don’t really want anyone to be an adult, because adults are autonomous and responsible. That lessens their power.
DIY SPACECRAFT: Copenhagen Suborbitals.
CLIMATE: Survey: Most People Are In Favor Of Wild Geoengineering Projects. “A majority of people in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States support studying ways to reflect sunlight as a method to cool the planet, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard and two Canadian universities say nearly three-quarters of survey respondents approved research into geoengineering.”
HOW TEXT MESSAGES could change global healthcare.
AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Exercise & Fitness.
OUR LATEST PROBLEM: Underpopulation. “Many demographers and long-term planners say the challenge for the next century will be less dealing with growing numbers of people and more managing the much larger population of aged and perhaps dependent people while finding new strategies to deliver prosperity, jobs and essential services.” Bring on the robots!
HOW VEHICLE AUTOMATION WILL CUT FUEL CONSUMPTION. “Cars that park themselves and automatically convoy with other cars could reduce congestion and emissions.”
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): 205 to lose jobs after Piper decides to mothball Altaire jet program.
So Obama bashes private jets, private jet sales then plummet, now a bunch of jet-making workers lose their jobs. Hope and change!
STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS: Can the Youth Vote Be Bought For a Trillion Dollars? “In the realm of economic stimulus proposals, none is as audacious, as Machiavellian, and as transparently designed to buy the votes of a critical electoral demographic than the proposal to forgive all student loans. Even if it fails, as it likely will, the seamless coordination between members of Congress, leftist advocacy groups, and the media to try to sell this idea is a perfect example of how brilliantly certain factions play their hand in the high-stakes game of crafting the dominant political narrative.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: Consumer confidence tumbles, home prices stagnate. “Consumer confidence unexpectedly dropped to its lowest level in two-and-a-half years in October, while house prices were unchanged at low levels in August, suggesting the consumer is still struggling.”
IN NEW JERSEY, celebrating the Zombie Apocalypse.
THEY’RE CALLING THIS ONE “FAST AND DUMBASS:” NYPD cops among 12 arrested in gun smuggling sting. Perhaps a mayor from some other town can send investigators into Mayor Bloomberg’s jurisdiction. . . .
OMEGA-3 FATS cut osteoarthritis risk in guinea pigs.
ROUNDUP: Rick Perry’s Flat Tax Plan.