Archive for 2019
April 28, 2019
NOT SURE THIS IS GOOD. How the U.S. Can Prepare to Live in China’s 5G World.
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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Girl Talk: What I Learned At An Orgy.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Roger Kimball proposes “Operation Academic Freedom.” Read the whole thing.
WE CERTAINLY NEED ONE: The antibiotics industry is broken—but there’s a fix. “The larger story of the Achaogen bankruptcy is that the financial structures that sustained antibiotic development for decades are broken. If we want new antibiotics, we’re going to have to find new ways to pay for them.”
ABIGAIL DISNEY, MY LEAST FAVORITE DISNEY PRINCESS:
Reading the interview with The Cut, her op-ed in the Post, and her over-the-top Twitter feed makes you understand why Disney insists she doesn’t speak for the rest of her family. I wouldn’t want her to speak for mine.
It’s a wonderful thing, this country’s genius for allowing men and women with great ideas and drive to become rich beyond reckoning, indeed so wealthy that they are able to provide for their family for generations. Why do their descendants want to ruin it for the rest of us?
Read the whole thing. Last year, when I visited Disneyworld for the first time in 35 years, I was reminded of what a perfect slice of Americana it all is. And how it could never be made today, given the worldviews of everybody now associated with Disney. I wonder how long they’ll allow it to stand in its current form?
BIG DEAL, I THINK MY 1990 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE HAD ONE OF THESE: A custom gearbox built out of cardboard.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Pirates attack Gulf of Mexico oil rig, lock up crew and loot the contents.
SCAMMERS GONNA SCAM: Participants in AOC’s ‘fun run’ didn’t know they were donating to her campaign.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: “Proctor & Gamble are experiencing better than expected profits in every area…except the male grooming products section of Gillette, and few people should be surprised.”
PUTIN VS. THE COMEDIAN: Ukraine’s president-elect has mocked Russia’s offer to give passports to his countrymen, saying the document would provide “the right to be arrested.”
Earlier this week, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree offering people in eastern Ukraine’s separatist territories passports.
He later said he was mulling extending the scheme to all Ukrainians.
But Mr Zelensky – a former comedian with no political experience who was elected last Sunday – said he did not believe many of his countrymen would take up the offer.
“Ukrainians are free people in a free country,” he said.
Instead, he offered citizenship to “all people who suffer from authoritarian and corrupt regimes”, but firstly “to the Russian people who suffer most of all.” . . . Mr Zelensky said a Russian passport provides “the right to be arrested for a peaceful protest” and “the right not to have free and competitive elections.”
Heh.
WINNER DECLARED FOR IOWAHAWK’S EARTH WEEK CHALLENGE FOR “GRAND CHAMPION CARBONATOR OF 2019:” “Dame Emma Thompson, for her 5,400 mile private jet joyride to London to join the Extinction Rebellion climate protest! Nice job, Emma! Move a few Oscars on your mantle to make room for your most prestigious award yet!”
Given how radical environmentalism functions as a substitute religion (see also: Thompson, Emma), perhaps that last headline is a bit too on the nose.
RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: Dartmouth professor: ‘Magic’ of guns can turn good people evil.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: This wristband lets humans control machines with their minds.
(Via Newsalert.)
A SHAMEFUL OPENING TO WHAT WILL NO DOUBT BE A SHAMELESS CANDIDACY: UVA College Repubs: Biden tried to ‘capitalize on a tragedy’ with Charlottesville ad.
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MEET SEA HUNTER: The vessel represents an entirely new class of unmanned sea surface vehicle developed in partnership between the Office of Naval Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Sea Hunter recently completed an autonomous sail from San Diego to Hawaii and back—the first ship ever to do so autonomously.
ANOTHER ANTI-TRUMP INSTITUTION HAS SELF-DESTRUCTED: How Trump Took the Shine Off Washington’s Glitziest Night: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. They have one man to thank. “After a decade or more in which it built into a kind of fantasy weekend for political journalists—allowing a group drawn disproportionately from geeks and smart-alecks and clumsy kids picked last for dodgeball at last to sit at the cool kids’ table—the WHCD today is, at best, in a semi-flaccid state.”
DENNIS PRAGER: Why Obama and Clinton Tweeted About “Easter Worshippers” not Christians. “Leftists are completely interchangeable: There is no ideological difference among the 20 or so Democrats running for president. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is not one degree to the right of Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren. That is why it is important to understand Clinton and Obama’s tweets: to understand the left, not to understand her or him.”
Thus: “The reason neither of them mentioned Christians or churches is that the left has essentially forbidden mention of all the anti-Christian murders perpetrated by Muslims in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and of all the Muslim desecration of churches in Europe, Africa, and anywhere else. This is part of the same phenomenon—that I and others have documented—of British police and politicians covering up six years of rape of 1,400 English girls by Muslim ‘grooming gangs’ in Rotherham and elsewhere in England. Essentially, the left’s rule is that nothing bad—no matter how true—may be said about Muslims or Islam and nothing good—no matter how true—may be said of Christians or Christianity.”