CAN I TAKE ‘EM TO THE BRIDGE? NO. NO YOU CAN’T: In A Creativity Slide, Today’s Musicians Drop The Bridge.

Where’s that confounded bridge?

WITH “EARTH DAY” HOURS AWAY, THE OBAMAS PROVE HOW SERIOUS THEY ARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE.

THAT’S NICE, BUT I’D RATHER HAVE A BETTER TREATMENT THAN A BETTER TEST: First Blood Test For Parkinson’s Detects Disease Much Sooner.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: The socialist utopias of Sanders’ dreams bear little resemblance to reality across the Atlantic.

FIGHT GROINAL WARMING: That Time Al and Tipper Gore Teamed Up To Brand Prince a Public Menace.

(Headline via Iowahawk.)

IT’S AS IF THE WHOLE THING WAS JUST A SCAM AIMED AT THE GULLIBLE AND IGNORANT: Fancy Juice Doesn’t Cleanse the Body of Toxins. “To say that drinking juice detoxifies the body isn’t quite the same as claiming leeches suck out poisons, but it’s fairly close.”

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: My wife and I are white evangelicals. Here’s why we chose to give birth to black triplets.

AT AMAZON: deals in Outdoor Decor. Also, metal detectors.

Plus, deals in Toys & Games.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “Circumcision, many contend, reduces the sensitivity of the penis. But a controlled experiment has found no evidence for the belief.”

STEVE GREEN: Not ‘Never Trump!’

I’ll vote for Trump even though it seems nearly impossible for him to win.

I’ll vote for Trump even though he and the “alt right” promise to ruin the Republican brand.

I’ll vote for Trump even though it’s likely that his anti-coattails will hand the Senate back to the Democrats, and maybe even the House.

I’ll vote for Trump even though his temperament is unsuited to the job of commander-in-chief and his policies are incoherent.

I’ll vote for Trump even though I’m certain that his candidacy will likely be a disaster for the Republican Party, and that his presidency, however unlikely, would be an even greater disaster for liberty and for constitutional government.

But I will vote for Donald Trump, because if and when the disaster comes, I don’t want the Trumpkins coming here on the night of November 8, as full of hate and ignorance as ever, and screaming “He lost because of people like YOU!”

Read the whole thing.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ivy League should do more to promote ROTC: If Harvard’s president really wants more military leaders, she must match words with action.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 6 Ways To Avoid “Tech Neck:” How Your Cellphone May Be Killing Your Back.

MUSIC LEGEND PRINCE FOUND DEAD AT AGE 57 AT PAISLEY PARK.

IN LIGHT OF THE HARRIET TUBMAN NEWS, they’ve put this story by Charles C.W. Cooke on blacks and the Second Amendment outside the paywall.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, AS SOMEONE AT VOX GETS A CLUE: The Smug Style in American Liberalism. “It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really —but by the failure of half the country to know what’s good for them. . . . A movement once fleshed out in union halls and little magazines shifted into universities and major press, from the center of the country to its cities and elite enclaves. Minority voters remained, but bereft of the material and social capital required to dominate elite decision-making, they were largely excluded from an agenda driven by the new Democratic core: the educated, the coastal, and the professional. . . . The wages of smug is Trump.”

Indeed.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20.

LESSER BREEDS OUTSIDE THE LAW: Child brides sometimes tolerated in Nordic asylum centers despite bans.

Hey, don’t look at me. I’m not the one treating Muslim immigrants like, well, lesser breeds outside the law.

REACTIONLESS THRUSTERS UPDATE: The Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster.

About 10 years ago, a little-known aerospace engineer called Roger Shawyer made an extraordinary claim. Take a truncated cone, he said, bounce microwaves back and forth inside it and the result will be a thrust toward the narrow end of the cone. Voila … a revolutionary thruster capable of sending spacecraft to the planets and beyond. Shawyer called it the EmDrive.

Shawyer’s announcement was hugely controversial. The system converts one type of energy into kinetic energy, and there are plenty of other systems that do something similar. In that respect it is unremarkable.

The conceptual problems arise with momentum. The system’s total momentum increases as it begins to move. But where does this momentum come from? Shawyer had no convincing explanation, and critics said this was an obvious violation of the law of conservation of momentum.

Shawyer countered with experimental results showing the device worked as he claimed. But his critics were unimpressed. The EmDrive, they said, was equivalent to generating a thrust by standing inside a box and pushing on the sides. In other words, it was snake oil.

Since then, something interesting has happened. Various teams around the world have begun to build their own versions of the EmDrive and put them through their paces. And to everyone’s surprise, they’ve begun to reproduce Shawyer’s results. The EmDrive, it seems, really does produce thrust. . . .

According to McCulloch, inertia is simply the pressure the Unruh radiation exerts on an accelerating body.

That’s hard to test at the accelerations we normally observe on Earth. But things get interesting when the accelerations involved are smaller and the wavelength of Unruh radiation gets larger.

At very small accelerations, the wavelengths become so large they can no longer fit in the observable universe. When this happens, inertia can take only certain whole-wavelength values and so jumps from one value to the next. In other words, inertia must quantized at small accelerations.

McCulloch says there is observational evidence for this in the form of the famous fly by anomalies. These are the strange jumps in momentum observed in some spacecraft as they fly past Earth toward other planets. That’s exactly what his theory predicts.

Testing this effect more carefully on Earth is hard because the accelerations involved are so small. But one way to make it easier would be to reduce the size of allowed wavelengths of Unruh radiation. “This is what the EmDrive may be doing,” says McCulloch.

Next, I want antigravity.

PRINCE HAS DIED.

THEORY: The Internet Is So Mean Because People Are Eager To Advertise How Good They Are.

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TRUST YOUR LEADERS: How ‘Settled Science’ Caused A Massive Public Health Crisis.

VIDEO: Inside Hillary’s War Room.

SKYNET SMILES: Inside The Factory Where Robots Make Missiles.

YES, WELL, THEY’RE AMORAL IDIOTS. ‘Calling out’ the Holocaust is the logical end point of the Left’s perverse victimhood Olympics.