OPEN THREAD: If the night time is the right time.

SPACE INDUSTRY ADVANCES: 3D printed satellite antennas can be made in space with help of sunlight.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Huge Jif peanut butter recall after salmonella outbreak in 12 states — Here’s how to check yours.

I’M SENSING A THEME HERE:

● WSJ Editors Eviscerate Hillary, Lapdog Media in Blistering Op-Ed About Russia Collusion Lies.

—Mike Miller, RedState, today.

● We Know for Sure: The Media, the Democrats, and Joe Biden LIED About EVERYTHING Concerning Hunter.

—Warner Todd Huston, The Lid today.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

Evergreen:

DUST? Scientists Think They Know What Causes Mars’s Planet-Encompassing Dust Storms.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE IS UNDERRATED: Long-hypothesized ‘next generation wonder material’ created for first time. “Graphyne has long been of interest to scientists because of its similarities to the “wonder material” graphene—another form of carbon that is highly valued by industry whose research was even awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. However, despite decades of work and theorizing, only a few fragments have ever been created before now.”

A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO, THESE WERE NEOCONFEDERATE TALKING POINTS:

Now they’re woke lefty “history.” John C. Calhoun smiles.

WELL SAID:

WHY I HAVE A GENERATOR (CONT’D): The coming blackouts. Do NOT say you were not warned.

HMM: Monkeypox Outbreak Prompts WHO to Explore Sexual Contact Theory.

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Pride festival in Gran Canaria — which was attended by 80,000 people — is linked to Spanish monkeypox outbreak as well as two cases in Italy while European total reaches 100.

UPDATE: After 100 Monkeypox Cases Reported in Europe, WHO Calls Emergency Meeting. “Monkeypox causes a wide array of symptoms (headaches, muscle aches, fever), but is most noted for skin lesions that are usually seen after 1 7-14 day incubation period. Normally, there are few cases detected outside of Africa. That was, until 2022.”

‘WOKE’ FED FUELS INFLATION: Professors Nicholas Curott and James McClure, writing for the American Institute for Economic Research, point to the Federal Reserve’s increasing preoccupation with issues like economic equity and climate change as a key factor in the board’s taking it’s eye off its core mission of maintaining price stability.

READER FAVORITE: Dual Dash Cam with Built-in GPS. #CommissionEarned

WELL, MOSTLY THEY JUST LIE: Anti-Gunners Will Do Damn Near Anything to Prove Their Point. But mostly lie.

12 WAYS INTELLIGENT DESIGN INSPIRES SCIENCE PROGRESS: Casey Luskin’s 12-part series on HillFaith ends today with a dozen examples of how ID encourages science progress. If you missed some of the installments, links to the entire series are in one place here.

FINALLY: Jurassic Park Gets Canceled.

The supposed issue revolves around the age difference at the time the movie was filmed between leading lady Laura Dern and leading man Sam Neill. According to an interview in the Sunday Times’ Culture section with the actor and actress, that’s now an example of the toxic patriarchy.

The Sunday Times noted that “Laura Dern was 23 when she starred in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill, who is 20 years older.”

I’ll admit to being completely confused by this. How is it the patriarchy to have a younger woman making millions of dollars to be a star in a movie that is co-starred by an older man? Is the suggestion here that she shouldn’t have ever been given the role? That seems rather silly and self-defeating. Of course, she’s only saying this 29 years later, after she’s been made fabulously wealthy by the long-running popularity of “Jurassic Park.”

Besides, when you are casting, you are casting for the part, not who the actor/actress may or may not be in real life. On the other side of this debate, older women are often cast to play younger women. Is that out of bounds now? And as to Dern, she played a character who was an accomplished P.hD in her field. She presented as someone in her early 30s in the movie, both in her stated experience and her appearance. Even still, in the film itself, Dern wasn’t even in a relationship with Neill’s character.

So again, what exactly is the problem here? It’s now the patriarchy when a younger woman is cast to play opposite an older man? Dern cites this “moment of cultural awareness,” but I’d suggest this is just the ultimate example of inventing victimhood out of thin air. A 23-year-old getting rich starring in a movie is not a victim.

Considering that Cary Grant was 58 and Audrey Hepburn was 33 when they filmed Charade in 1963, better buy a copy on Blu-Ray before that once-classic film gets memory-holed as well.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to hide your house on every map app.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Antifa protests World Economic Forum in Davos.

SPACE: Webb telescope nearly set to explore the solar system.

UNSURPRISING: Cannabis users require more sedation for endoscopy.

OKAY, GROOMERS: National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Guide Advises Against the Use of “Parent,” “Male,” Female,” “Mother” and “Father.”

SHOCKER: Marijuana vaping rises sharply among U.S. teens. “At the same time, the proportion of kids who smoke marijuana declined. In essence, vaping seemed to be replacing smoking, according to lead researcher Katherine Keyes, a professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City.”

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? Touring Ray Parker Jr.’s Epic Home Studio:

GOOD AND HARD, AUSTRALIA: ‘Greenslide’ in Oz Dumps Scott Morrison. “Unfortunately, we now have a Labor government committed to a 43 percent reduction in emissions by 2030, with up to twelve Greens and green-minded independents in the parliament who think much more ambitiously. They variously want something between sixty and seventy-five percent. Meanwhile the Liberals are tortured. Should they try to outbid the Teals next time to get those blue-ribbon seats back? Hold on, there’s no outbidding the Teals. Should they then try for those working-class outer-suburban seats, which they’ve never won, by going back to traditional conservative values and common sense? A Trumpian strategy. Seems farfetched. There will be no path back for the Liberals, while “climate change” is the cause du jour.”

BERLIN AIRLIFT IN REVERSE: U.S. Flying Baby Formula From Germany. “There’s some irony in the news today about U.S. military planes flying baby formula from Germany to Indiana. Only this time, the threat isn’t from a foreign power. The threat is from the criminal incompetence of the Biden administration, which ignored the baby formula crisis for months until the media began to report on it.”

UPDATE: As Hot Air’s Allahpundit noted last week, “America doesn’t need a mind-reader as president. It needs a Wall Street Journal reader. Per Jim Geraghty, the Journal had a story about the formula shortage back on … January 12.” And if the Journal is too right-leaning for Brandon’s White House, their cheerleaders at CNN were running articles on baby formula shortages as early as November 16th of last year: Baby formula is getting harder to find.