FASTER, PLEASE: Drug Could Make Aging Brains More Youthful. As I leave Late Youth and enter very early middle age, this stuff starts to seem important . . . .
[Er, “leave Late Youth”? You sure about that phrasing? — ed. Hey, I’m the same age as Barack Obama, and he’s dynamic and youthful by definition. Have you seen Barack lately? — ed. Good point.]
AT AMAZON, it’s the Baby Outlet. Note: Amazon does not sell actual babies.
KEITH HENNESSEY SUMMARIZES AND ANALYZES THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT.
UPDATE: Budget Deal Not Polling So Well:
Asked for single-word characterizations of the budget negotiations, the top words in the poll — conducted in the days before an apparent deal was struck — were “ridiculous,” “disgusting” and “stupid.” Overall, nearly three-quarters of Americans offered a negative word; just 2 percent had anything nice to say.
Ouch.
REASON TV: Plant A Garden, Go To Jail For 93 Days?
ANN ALTHOUSE: Why do Democrats want high taxation as their brand?
Plus, The news media declare a big victory for conservatives… but why? I’m skeptical! “Since the vote has not occurred, I have the uneasy feeling that I’m hearing sales pressure. What a fabulous deal for you! Sign here!”
PETER WEHNER: What happens to an ideologue when the president in whom he invested enormous hope is increasingly seen as a failure? For one answer, see the lead “Talk of the Town” item in The New Yorker. It’s only going to get worse.
UPDATE: Reader Hodge Golson emails: “Couldn’t help but see shades of When Prophecy Fails there.” Ya think?
SECRETS OF the Navy SEALS.
DIGITALLY SIMULATING THE HUMAN BRAIN. “The things in our heads and at our fingertips are both information processing systems, but they go about it in very different ways—which is to be suspected when comparing an organ crafted gradually over millions of years with a device that didn’t exist so much as a few decades ago. A team of British researchers is looking to close the gap, by building a computer that more closely mimics how the brain actually works. ARM is putting up a million of its processors to help in the task—but even with that processing power, the project only hopes to simulate about 1 percent of the human brain.”
Faster, please. I need to back things up. I mean, I back up my hard drive regularly . . . .
ELECTRIC CAR UPDATE: Uncovering more details on BMW’s i3 and i8. The scissor-doors are cool, but would they open in my garage? Lots of video and pics at the link.
THE ANCHORESS: G.K. Chesterton And The Tea Parties.
GET A BETTER DEAL by not relaxing.
A BODY FIT FOR a freaky-big brain.
KENTUCKY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL: “FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – A whistle-blower is alleging his colleagues in the Department of Juvenile Justice have been threatened with termination if they don’t contribute to Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s re-election campaign.”
RECOVERY BUMMER (CONT’D): Manufacturing growth hits lowest level in 2 years. “The disappointing report on manufacturing is the first major report on how economy performed in July. It suggests the dismal economic growth in the first half of the year could extend into the July-September quarter.”
UPDATE: 10 Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun: Many Americans Believe The 2008-2009 Recession Never Ended. Do tell.
IN THE MAIL: From David Drake, What Distant Deeps.
TIME FOR ANOTHER CHEESY BUT STRANGELY SATISFYING INSTA-POLL: Click through to vote and to discuss in the poll comments.
WELL, THIS EXPLAINS A LOT: Washington, D.C. Adults Top Alcohol Abusers in Country: Also frequent marijuana, cocaine users.
ADVICE TO NEW LAW PROFESSORS: So at the SEALS conference I read Strategies and Techniques Of Law School Teaching, which is (mostly) aimed at new law teachers, and I thought it was quite good. If you’re a new, or aspiring, law professor, you ought to give it a read. There’s a lot of useful information.
DICK DURBIN: Debt Deal Is The Death Of Keynesian Economics.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: French Secularism Dies In The Middle East. “From Pakistan to Morocco the Muslim world has turned its back on the modernity of the 20th century. God only knows what comes next.”
TODAY ONLY: A sale on Garmin GPS/heart monitor watches. Not much of a runner myself but I can see the advantage.
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