OPEN THREAD: It’s all part of the process.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: India plans to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040.

SHE’S J.K. ROWLING. HER CRITICS ARE CRAZY PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE.

This is about as close to "fuck off" as a corporation like HBO is going to put in a press release so I'll take ithttps://t.co/7QNM3eZ7Qw

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) November 20, 2024

The brief historical interlude where crazy people of no importance could nonetheless get their way by yelling a lot appears to have closed.

YOUR MUSCLES GROW DURING THE REST PERIODS, NOT WHILE YOU’RE EXERCISING: The Science of Deload Weeks: Why Focusing on Rest Is Key to Fitness Gains.

CLIMATE CRAZINESS: ‘Snowstorms Are a Thing of the Past’ Day in UK as Snowstorm Closes Over 200 Schools.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Unveil New Antibiotic to Combat Drug-Resistant Superbugs.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: FDA finds ‘black mold-like substance,’ bacteria-tainted water at Tom’s of Maine facility.

THE EV BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Backfire: Buying EVs Hasn’t Worked for Hertz.

ME, AS PART OF LAW & LIBERTY’S SYMPOSIUM ON NEW YORK TIMES V. SULLIVAN: Whither Sullivan?

ADVICE ON giving guns as gifts.

“THE BEST PART IS NO PART:” I hope Elon applies this approach to the federal government, too.

Engineering is the art of efficiently applying physics.

SpaceX Raptor v3 rocket engine is the epitome of the engineering mantra “The best part is no part” — Can't wait to see this marvel of aerospace engineering in action on Starship and Super Heavy Booster 🚀 pic.twitter.com/8WzOLxYXaG

— ALEX (@ajtourville) November 19, 2024

EVOLUTION: Hunter-gatherer study helps explain how children have learned for 99% of human history.

THE LYING DIDN’T HELP: Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.

“PREGNANT PEOPLE:” Pregnant people might not be getting the nutrients they need, according to new research.

Follow the science!

LOL: I’m 16. On Nov. 5, the girls cried and the boys played Minecraft. “Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton’s loss. Now at 16, I’ve had the wind knocked out of me. On that Wednesday, I was flush with anger — but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.”

Reading this, you’d never know that a majority of white women — and nearly half of women overall — voted for Trump. The boys had their priorities straight. The girls chose to be hysterical, as did their adult women role models.

FAT NATION: More than half of U.S. adults might be candidates for Ozempic.

OBVIOUSLY WE NEED A CODE OF JUDICIAL ETHICS FOR THESE THINGS:

NEW: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will headline a conference featuring activists who justified Oct. 7.

These include "Fatties for a Free Palestine" supporter Hannah Moushabeck and Sawsan Jaber, who said Palestinians were “fighting for their humanity.”https://t.co/NeKONbnien

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) November 20, 2024

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump will keep the left on defense — in transition and beyond.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: A humiliated bride was “completely upstaged” at her own wedding after hungry guests snubbed the upscale vegan dinner menu — and ordered pizza for delivery instead.

Plus: “In the post’s comments, folks online did not side with the newlyweds — particularly for weaponizing the element of surprise. ‘Be honest, you didn’t tell anyone about the menu because you knew they wouldn’t like it/come if you did,’ one wrote.”

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: University of Utah faculty donate $75,000 to Harris, $0 to Trump: President Donald Trump won nearly 60 percent of Utah, but the University of Utah heavily favors Democrats.

“LATINX” IS CULTURAL IMPERIALISM: UCLA prof says bilingual education can ‘racialize Latinx students.’

CDR SALAMANDER: Admiral Paparo Goes Salamander at Brookings: Real talk on drones and magazine depth.

NATO ACTS:

BREAKING:

The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.

The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian pic.twitter.com/gRJ3rxobBC

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 20, 2024

THE PUBLIC DIFFERS FROM THE POLITICAL CLASS: Public likes Trump’s picks: RFK Jr., Musk, Rubio, and Huckabee most popular.

LIZ SHELD: Morning Greatness: Trump Selects Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education.

UPDATE: “Apprentice — there’s a word with resonance. We seem to be talking about teaching young people specific marketable skills rather than channeling them into college. I’m sure that will be controversial… especially now that we’ve seen that it’s the college-educated who vote Democratic and the working class has turned to Trump.” Indoctrination is how leftists reproduce, so that’s a real kick in the nads.