THE 10,000 STEPS THING WAS LITERALLY JUST A SALES SLOGAN FOR A PEDOMETER COMPANY: Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It’s Not 10,000.

THIS IS NICE, BUT I THINK THEY’RE OVERSELLING IT: Sky-High Success: Boeing’s Starliner Nails Parachute Test Before Astronaut Adventure. Then again, it’s news when anything from Boeing works these days.

HMM: Universal coronavirus vaccine may save lives, money in future pandemic. After the shambolic Covid experience, it’s going to be a tough sell.

OPTIMISM: EV Sales Are Just Getting Started.

MEANWHILE, AT SPACEX:

Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/2bBaJvSBTy

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 14, 2024

SELF-DEFENSE: The Carjacking Dilemma: Keep yourself safe while you’re in your car.

MY PROJECT TO USE ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO DESTROY THE IRRIGATION NETWORK THAT MAKES CALIFORNIA HABITABLE PROCEEDS APACE: The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun.

Eventually the only alternative will either be to evacuate California, or to build nuclear-powered desalination plants.

ALIENS: Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why. Some girls are starting to develop breasts as early as age 6 or 7. Researchers are studying the role of obesity, chemicals and stress.

WE’RE LEARNING: Doomed US lunar lander’s space odyssey continues… for now.

PROBABLY BECAUSE OF ALL THE ANTI-MALE HATE IN SCHOOLS: Male gender expression in schools is associated with substance abuse later in life.

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: New: Iceland Volcano Erupts Near Capital, Tourist Destination Evacuated.

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:” Ocean sciences must incorporate DEI, scholars argue.

“Scholars.”

WHY IS THE IVY LEAGUE SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? THE SCROLL: Cornell University vows to hold student ‘fully accountable’ for allegedly posting ‘Zionists must die’ on Instagram.

INSURRECTION:

JUST IN: Pro-Palestine protesters try to breach the security fence outside of the White House, forcing DC police to hold the fence.

If they were wearing red MAGA hats this would be all over the news.

According to @Julio_Rosas11, the fence was attacked so badly that Secret… https://t.co/1vwVxE7WEe

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 14, 2024

And further evidence of our dishonest, illegitimate two-tier justice system.

Related:

Leave them alone! pic.twitter.com/ze3JyWSoCL

— 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) January 14, 2024

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s Resurgence Draws Parallels to Reagan’s 1980 Upset Victory. “It’s hard to recapture the contempt with which Reagan was excoriated by the best and the brightest, but it was just as visceral and widespread as the animus against Trump in 2016 and today.” Yes, that was papered over afterward. Reagan supporters weren’t jailed, of course, though the demonization and prosecution of Anne Gorsuch (mother to the Supreme Court Justice) was an early lawfare event.

IT SENDS TOO MUCH MONEY TO RED STATES: Biden facing pressure to rein in LNG exports. “In the past two years, hundreds of cargoes loaded with supercooled gas have departed the U.S. Gulf Coast as foreign buyers turn to America for energy supplies. Developers of export terminals are now capitalizing on the momentum, pushing for plans to build more facilities to expand LNG production. But climate activists and Democratic lawmakers want the Biden administration to stop the expansion. They argue that the federal government, which has to approve LNG projects, is failing to account for the harmful effects of gas exports on the climate, the U.S. economy and local communities.”

They want us to buy gas from Putin. Everyone knows that commie carbon is good for the planet.

WOEING: ‘This Has Been Going on for Years.’ Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess.

Long before the harrowing Alaska Airlines blowout on Jan. 5, there were concerns within Boeing BA -2.23%decrease; red down pointing triangle

about the way the aerospace giant was building its planes. Boeing, like so many other American manufacturers, was outsourcing more and more of the components that went into its complex machines.

A Boeing aerospace engineer presented a controversial white paper in 2001 at an internal technical symposium. The engineer, John Hart-Smith, warned colleagues of the risks of the subcontracting strategy, especially if Boeing outsourced too much work and didn’t provide sufficient on-site quality and technical support to its suppliers.

“The performance of the prime manufacturer can never exceed the capabilities of the least proficient of the suppliers,” Hart-Smith wrote. “These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight.”

The paper became a sensation within Boeing. It was passed among engineers. Posted on factory walls. Hart-Smith, after he later retired from Boeing, said of his warning of excessive outsourcing: “It’s common sense.”

Two decades later, Boeing is reckoning with the fallout from its outsourcing strategy.

But, of course, they didn’t listen to the engineers. When you’re a tech company, or a manufacturing company, or, well, most kinds of company you should probably listen to the engineers.

YES, I’D LIKE TO SEE LESS ELITISM AND MORE ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, EVIDENCE OF ELITENESS:

Why do superior "real" Harvard grads keep getting owned by lowly Harvard Extension School grads?

At some point, people who claim to be elite need to show some evidence. https://t.co/jPvR19bw6S

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) January 12, 2024

LAWFARE USED TO BE LOOKED ON AS ILLEGITIMATE: Matt Taibbi: Courts, The New Campaign Trail.

JOHN LUCAS: SECDEF Austin Must Go; But How Did He Get Here? And what else have we not been told?

WELL, BIDEN’S COUNTING ON THE MUSLIM VOTE IN KEY STATES:

Crowds of Terrorists chanting for continued Attacks against the West are in our Nation’s Capital tonight and nothing is being done by Law Enforcement to put an End to it. https://t.co/eByQEb4T5A

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 14, 2024

Locking up J6 Capitol strollers didn’t cost him anything, and gave him a Reichstag fire.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Japanese Mars mission launch delayed to 2026.

BUT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Seeing Blue at Night May Not Be What’s Keeping You Up After All.

THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST (ARE NOWHERE NEAR THIS CASE): Even Dems Wonder: WTF, Fani? “Fani Willis reportedly having a close personal relationship with the special prosecutor she hired for her case against former President Donald Trump has even Democrats lamenting the impropriety, bad optics, and presentation of political bias.”