VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D supplements do not prevent bone fractures in children, finds study.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: When astronauts become farmers: Harvesting food on the moon and Mars.

YES, THEY NEED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON: If Dems can target billionaire Elon Musk to control speech, who WON’T they target?

I DON’T KNOW, I CAN IMAGINE AN AWFUL LOT BY WAY OF NEW DEMOCRACY: Harvard law professor tells audience to ‘imagine a new democracy.’. But I feel certain what I imagine isn’t what she’s imagining.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Swing State Muslims Vow to “Abandon Biden” Next Year.

WELL, THEY ALL GET THE SAME EMAILS FROM MEDIA MATTERS AND THE DNC: “The NYT headline about Trump’s Cedar Rapids speech is so close to WaPo’s headline that I was afraid for a moment that I’d mistakenly attributed the NYT headline to WaPo.”

LOL: Trans activists tell straight, gay people they can’t have ‘genital preferences.’

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: The Case For And Against Keeping Donna Adelson In Jail Before Her Trial In Dan Markel’s Murder.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Living and Dying in the 3/4 Time.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Weekly Biden Report Card: Fails in Israel, on border, with voters.

JUSTICE: Court Orders Jussie Smollett Back to Jail for Hate Crime Hoax.

TRUST:

Trust is a fragile thing. It decays through being on the receiving end of lies, contempt, hostility and arrogance. https://t.co/zAPc29LzYx

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) December 2, 2023

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: They Might Want You to Eat Bugs, But They Would Prefer You Weren’t Here at All.

OPEN THREAD: Like Schaeffer Beer, it’s there for you. It’s what you want. It’s the one thread to have, when you’re having more than one.

OUCH:

And that is because the senator from Egypt is harder to dislodge than the congressman from mendacity.https://t.co/ek6AYvTcFg

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 2, 2023

UPDATE: Heh. Indeed.

Weird: Man Becomes More Conservative As He Regains Brain Function https://t.co/6nesG1N1WN pic.twitter.com/MTBFFITUvY

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 2, 2023

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Angola signs Artemis Accords.

Here’s an Artemis Accords explainer. This is actually super important, as it nails the lid on the coffin of efforts to block space resource exploitation using international law.

WELL, GOOD: A Radical New Drug Is Poised to Extend The Life of Large Dogs. They don’t live long enough.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Living and Dying in the 3/4 Time.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: What Arab Nations Are Reportedly Saying to Israel in Private Is Quite Interesting.

It feeds into everything that’s been reported about Israel’s Arab neighbors and why they don’t want Palestinian refugees roaming wild in their country: they bring trouble. The late King Hussein had to declare war on them and successfully drove them out. The problem is the Palestinian Liberation Organization set up shop in Lebanon, where they caused problems for the government while also attacking Israel from the southern part of the country. Israel had to invade in 1982 and remained in Southern Lebanon until 2000. Egypt has closed its border with the Gaza Strip in Rafah due to terrorism concerns.

In the days after the brutal October 7 attacks executed by Hamas, Egypt knew what was going to happen. They deployed tanks to the border while their prime minister vowed that his country would sacrifice millions to keep their borders safe. He was not referring to Israel. So, what’s the latest? Well, Haaretz is reporting that Israel’s Arab neighbors are telling Jerusalem privately that they shouldn’t stop military operations until Hamas has been annihilated. They view them as a domestic threat.

Good.

NOW OUT FROM CHRIS DURBIN: An Upright Man: The Fourteenth Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventure.

FASTER, PLEASE: Revolutionizing Nerve Repair: Scientists Discover Key Protein in Mice.

IT’S NOT RACIST THAT YOU’RE FAT: “Since college, I have had an ‘obese’ to ‘morbidly obese’ body mass index — a measure that is at best inaccurate and at worst racist.”

I mean, I’ve long been a critic of applying BMI to individuals, since it can’t tell the difference between a fat person and a heavily muscled bodybuilder with 8% bodyfat. But still.

THOUGHTS ON HUMAN AUGMENTATION.

PERSONAL DEFENSE LAW: Knowledge of self-defense involves more than knowing how to draw your firearm or marksmanship.

CASINOS ALREADY KNOW THIS: Research shows human behavior guided by fast changes in dopamine levels.

Also app companies.