THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test.

YOUR GRANDMOTHER WAS RIGHT ABOUT FRESH AIR AND SUNSHINE: Light therapy benefits Alzheimer’s patients. “The researchers note that patients with Alzheimer’s disease often have less exposure to light by spending less time outside, and can have reduced light sensitivity due to nerve damage, reduced social interaction and age-related eye problems. Reduced light exposure can wreak havoc on the body’s circadian rhythms.”

WESTERN CIVILIZATION ON THE ROPES: “In France, two teachers have been murdered by Muslim students. So you can’t blame educators for being a little skittish.”

Western civilization’s problems are all self inflicted, and the result of listening to alleged intellectuals.

21ST CENTURY WARFARE:

This is the sound of the way modern wars are fought. And this has been true since 2020 for everywhere…

…except inside the minds of the Big/Expensive/Few weapons lobbies in the West.

1/3 https://t.co/gSyi1GjkYL

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) December 11, 2023

HEALTH: Study suggests swift use of antiretrovirals in infected newborns can banish HIV.

NONPROFITS HAVE NO CONSCIENCE: Will the Sierra Club Apologize If the Lights Go Out in Baltimore?

OF COURSE NOT, THEY’RE MEANT TO DISARM PEOPLE THE GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID OF AND DOESN’T LIKE: When the ATF Director Publicly Acknowledges That Gun Control Laws Don’t Really Apply to Criminals.

Weirdly, the people the government doesn’t like and is most afraid of tend to be the people who obey laws like this.

STRONG AND SIMPLE: Tesla Cybertruck Stainless Steel Shell and Truck Bed Are Just Five Parts.

DEFENSE PRIORITIES FOR 2024: “Of course; abortion uber alles, and by all means we need military-sponsored drag shows, military facilities should be sterilizing men and women and then signing them up for expensive and unending medications on the government dime – not to mention all sorts of issues when they decided to de-transition, and DOD schools to be pushing what is in effect gay pr0n for children. I’ve seen the books. That is exactly what they are.”

NEW FRONTIERS IN INTERROGATION: Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text.

IT’S AN OBESITY TREATMENT, NOT AN OBESITY CURE: Patients regain much weight after stopping new obesity drug: Study.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Many night shift workers face sleep disorders.

AND YET, STILL LESS BRUTAL THAN IT DESERVED. Another Brutal Year for the Media Industry. “The media industry saw several waves of high-profile layoffs in 2023. We had layoffs in January, Gawker shut down in February, Buzzfeed cut 15 percent of its staff in April, Condé Nast laid off staff (including at the New Yorker), NPR cut ten percent of its workforce, and Vox Media laid off four percent of its staff on November 30, after a prior round of layoffs. Last year also closed with a bunch of media layoffs, which came on the heels of pandemic layoffs, so it’s been a brutal few years.”

NOW THERE’S A SHOCK: Columbia students call Hillary Clinton class huge disappointment.

See, I wouldn’t have been disappointed because I would have known what to expect.

MAKE THEM PAY: $15M Jury Award to Doctor Who Claimed Anti-Male Bias in University Finding He Had Committed Sexual Assault.

LOL: Anti-plagiarism policies ‘harm Black and Latinx students,’ professor argues.

CAN’T LET A TRUMP ACHIEVEMENT STAND: Biden Administration Destabilized Middle East Peace.

A SMALL SIGNIFIER, at Gold’s Gym.

THERE ARE A LOT OF CO-CONSPIRATORS IN THIS ADMINISTRATION: Regulations czar: Biden turns OMB into ‘Co-conspirator in over-regulation.’ “Scrapping promises of transparency, President Joe Biden has begun to hide the costs of his most expensive rules and red tape and turned his top regulations watchdog into a lap dog for federal agencies, according to a top independent expert.”

INSURRECTION! Soros-Backed Group Storms Senate Office Building, Demands Israeli Ceasefire.

THEY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING: Magill Defender Overseeing Search for Penn’s Next President: Julie Platt, interim chair of school’s board, expressed ‘full confidence’ in Magill amid anti-Semitism scandals.

NIALL FERGUSON: The Treason of the Intellectuals: Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.

In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and racism. By that point, although Benito Mussolini had been in power in Italy for five years, Adolf Hitler was still six years away from power in Germany and 13 years away from victory over France. But already Benda could see the pernicious role that many European academics were playing in politics.

Those who were meant to pursue the life of the mind, he wrote, had ushered in “the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds.” And those hatreds were already moving from the realm of the ideas into the realm of violence—with results that would be catastrophic for all of Europe.

A century later, American academia has gone in the opposite political direction—leftward instead of rightward—but has ended up in much the same place. The question is whether we—unlike the Germans—can do something about it.

We already are, as we strip higher education of its now-undeserved status. Next, the money.

JOEL KOTKIN: As antisemitism surges on the left, Jews are pushed to the right.

MATT TAIBBI: FOIA Exclusive: Did Pharma Companies Help Plan “Virality Project” Censorship Program? “This was the first concrete description we’d seen yet of “malinformation,” which the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defined as information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.” In practice the definition would prove simpler: true, but inconvenient.”

Plus: “Government clearly has no legitimate interest in preventing people from building political coalitions just because those threaten to be effective. There’s also no legitimate reason a government-partnered/government-funded organization should be thinking at all about suppressing arguments against ‘government overreach.'”

DAVID MASTIO: DEI- indoctrinated students hate Israel not because it is different, but because it has so much in common with America.