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Archive for 2018
May 25, 2018
WATCHING DIFFERENT MOVIES, AS SCOTT ADAMS SAYS: The Left And The Right Aren’t Hearing The Same Jordan Peterson.
JACK JOHNSON: MILES DAVIS GOES THE DISTANCE. In honor of President Trump’s pardon of the late heavyweight prizefighter yesterday, over at Ed Driscoll.com, I’m reposting my 2003 review of A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Miles Davis’ seminal 1971 jazz-rock fusion recording.
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BRITS REFLECT: Is Meghan’s wedding our ‘Obama moment’? Let’s hope not. “Here’s something to bear in mind over the next few years. Be wary of taking advice on social justice from someone whose wedding dress cost 200,000 quid.”
A LOT MORE THAN I’VE GOT: Here’s How Much Money You Need for Bankers to Think You’re Rich.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Mark Zuckerberg Envisions a Facebook ‘Supreme Court.’
JOHN McWHORTER ON “ATONEMENT AS ACTIVISM: Today’s consciousness-raising on race is less about helping black people than it is about white people seeking grace.”
Once Nietzsche declared “God is dead,” the entire “Progressive” project slowly coalesced into cults of secular religions to replace Him.
NON-BIASED SPORTS JOURNALISM, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG:
—Shalini Ramachandran, the Wall Street Journal, yesterday.
● Chaser: Keith Olbermann Getting Expanded Role at ESPN.
—The Hollywood Reporter, today.
THE DUDE IS SERIOUSLY OUTMATCHED HERE: Houston Police Chief Says He’s ‘Watching’ Dana Loesch. She Torches Him.
THAT’S NOT FUNNY: Why comedians say college audiences can’t take a joke.
MEMO RE: EVENTS OF JULY 4, 1776: Is everyone else being buried in emails and notices about Europe’s new data protection regulations (GDPR)? I am sure there are many fine provisions, but “the right to be forgotten” has serious First Amendment problems. I hereby notify readers that FIRE will not be subjecting the information we host to the judgments of EU bureaucrats. Because America.
IT ALWAYS SEEMED TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: ‘Impossible’ EM drive may actually be impossible after all.
The idea, championed by inventor Roger Shawyer, uses trapped microwaves in a conical cavity. Previous tests by NASA showed that the microwaves bouncing off the walls of the cavity appeared to produce enough force to push the cavity in one direction. However, a group from TU Dresden in Germany has been unable to replicate these results, or at least they have, but not for the reasons NASA originally thought.
The German team copied the NASA experiment exactly, piping microwaves into the cavity, using lasers to monitor movement and a spring to measure thrust. The setup did indeed produce thrust, as indicated by the spring. But when the researchers positioned the microwaves so they definitely could not produce thrust in the direction of the spring, the drive pushed just as hard. Furthermore, the same degree of thrust remained even after power was cut in half. So clearly, there are other factors at play.
The team suggests that the thrust may actually be produced by an interaction between the cables that power the microwave amplifier and Earth’s magnetic field. If this is the case, it won’t work in space
Oh, well.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You know how to find out it it’ll work in space? Test it in space.
TRUMP TO SEEK MORE TAX CUTS: Hey, if a first helping was good, just think how much better a second one could be! LifeZette’s Connor Wolf has the details.
IT’S SCIENCE: Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?
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ANDREW KLAVAN: Trump Moves the Narrative Football.
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THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT? Chuck Todd’s Daily TDS. “To watch an episode of Chuck Todd’s show is to see a cavalcade of liberal journalists work through Trump Derangement Syndrome on-air.”
THERE’S ALREADY MORE WATER-TAXI SERVICE IN NYC: Fleet of autonomous boats could service cities to reduce road traffic. Though the biggest aquatic-commuting city I’ve ever spent time in is Sydney.
COLEMAN HUGHES: The Racism Treadmill.