OPEN THREAD: Hang on baby, Friday’s coming.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Don’t Rest In Peace, Karl Marx.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Surprise Chinese lunar mission hit by launch anomaly.

WHERE COULD THESE CASES BE COMING FROM? Experts Warn Leprosy Isn’t Ancient History as Cases Surge in The US.

All sorts of ancient evils are returning.

UNEXPECTEDLY! Wholesale inflation rose 0.6% in February, much more than expected.

IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS MORNING’S POST: SpaceX hits distance, speed milestones in third Starship test; rocket lost in re-entry.

IF THE DOORS WROTE ENTER SANDMAN.

THIS SHOULD BE A HOLIDAY:

HMM: Cockpit Mishap Might Have Caused Plunge on Latam Boeing 787. “A Latam Airlines flight attendant hit a switch on the pilot’s seat while serving a meal, leading a motorized feature to push the pilot into the controls and push down the plane’s nose, these officials said. The switch has a cover and isn’t supposed to be used when a pilot is in the seat. Around 50 passengers on the flight from Sydney to Auckland required medical attention, and some passengers were pinned to the ceiling as the airplane suddenly declined. Latam, a Chile-based airline, has said the Dreamliner suffered a ‘technical event during the flight which caused strong movement.'”

Not sure if this is Boeing’s fault or not, but they don’t need the bad publicity.

DON’T BE A SCIENCE DENIER: It’s Science: Petting Dogs Is Good for You.

EV DEMAND IS FALLING, demand for hybrids is still strong.

OLD SKOOL: Five Great 1911s for Concealed Carry.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST CNN…: Even CNN Admits Fani Willis Keeps Embarrassing Herself.

READER FAVORITE: Telescoping Magnetic Pick Up Tool. #CommissionEarned

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NEW: From FLA courthouse in Trump's classified documents case with a prediction.

Robert Hur report and testimony is the biggest elephant in the room. The term "arbitrary enforcement" used frequently by both the defense and Judge Aileen Cannon.

Cannon hammered the fact no former…

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Developing, as they say.

WELL, GOOD: Early clinical trial results show ‘dramatic and rapid’ regression of glioblastoma after next generation CAR-T therapy.

OR MAYBE YOU WILL: This Country Cut Spending to the Bone and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Rampant text recycling at the world’s largest independent research organization [PART 1]: Battelle Memorial Institute has an annual budget of $11B and oversees 7+ national labs. Yet, beneath the surface of this non-profit giant’s success, lies a troubling pattern of academic dishonesty.

THAT’S A SERIOUS COMPLICATING FACTOR FOR THE OTHER SIDE’S PLANNING: F-35A Is Officially Certified For Nuclear Strike.

WELL, GOOD: Blood test shows 83% accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer in trial.

“WHITE HOUSE LIES” IS THE NEW “DOG BITES MAN”: White House Lies About Using Digitally-Altered Photos of Biden.

JONATHAN HAIDT: The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood: For a little over a decade, we have been raising children in an environment that is hostile to human development. We need to change that now.

suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies from 2010 to 2019. The suicide rate rose 48 percent for adolescents ages 10 to 19. For girls ages 10 to 14, it rose 131 percent.

The problem was not limited to the U.S.: Similar patterns emerged around the same time in Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, the Nordic countries, and beyond. By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.

The decline in mental health is just one of many signs that something went awry. Loneliness and friendlessness among American teens began to surge around 2012. Academic achievement went down, too. According to “The Nation’s Report Card,” scores in reading and math began to decline for U.S. students after 2012, reversing decades of slow but generally steady increase. PISA, the major international measure of educational trends, shows that declines in math, reading, and science happened globally, also beginning in the early 2010s.
Read: It sure looks like phones are making students dumber

As the oldest members of Gen Z reach their late 20s, their troubles are carrying over into adulthood. Young adults are dating less, having less sex, and showing less interest in ever having children than prior generations. They are more likely to live with their parents. They were less likely to get jobs as teens, and managers say they are harder to work with. Many of these trends began with earlier generations, but most of them accelerated with Gen Z. . . .

I think the answer can be stated simply, although the underlying psychology is complex: Those were the years when adolescents in rich countries traded in their flip phones for smartphones and moved much more of their social lives online—particularly onto social-media platforms designed for virality and addiction. Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger children, too, as they began to get access to their parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary school.

Read the whole thing.

FLASHBACK: We must make public health authorities accountable for their COVID lies.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: America on verge of measles MAYHEM: Hundreds feared to be infected in California and Arizona outbreaks as US suffers year’s worth of cases in two months – as doctors say antivaxxers and Biden’s open border policy are allowing virus to spread.

Hundreds of people are already feared to be infected in California and Arizona after cases were confirmed in people in the states who visited local hospitals.

And there are also fears over an outbreak at a 1,800-strong migrant shelter in Chicago — after four cases were confirmed, including two among children.

Doctors say vaccines have been so successful that many people now no longer ‘remember what it was like to live with the disease’ — as vaccination rates drop for the third year in a row.

Millions of migrants have also come to America under President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, with experts warning that over-crowded shelters and low vaccination rates in other countries could leave the US vulnerable to outbreaks.

Biden will blame Republicans for this and the press will let him get away with it.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX Nails It on Starship Testflight. “According to one of SpaceX’s anchors, there are already four more Super Heavy first-stage rockets ready or nearly ready to go.”