IT’S NOT THE SCIENTISTS WHO NEED TO BE PREPARING: Scientists prepare for the next Carrington Event: ‘Should such an event occur, there are no good solutions.’
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 25, 2025
FLOURISHING AFTER THE ASTEROID IS THE HARD PART: Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit.
EUROPE NEEDS A LAUNCHER: Airbus, Leonardo and Thales aim to lead European space efforts.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Spine docs alarmed over ‘tech neck’ hazard for young smartphone users.
THE LEARNING CURVE IS STEEP, AND IT’S NOT CLEAR THE U.S. ARMY IS ON IT:
You need your own and operate FPV's to appreciate this reality and the US Military has none.
The current generation of US flag ranks are COIN/LIC careerists who are simply incapable of adapting to this sort of change rapidly without a series of major high casualty defeats.
2/2 pic.twitter.com/Q1NHvOrqHa
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) October 24, 2025
SOMETHING ELSE THAT’S GETTING DONE AFTER DECADES OF TALK: Army To Bring Nuclear Microreactors To Its Bases By 2028: The Army is highly concerned about its near total reliance on local power grids to energize its most critical installations.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Penn Nursing promotes race-matching patients and doctors in ‘flawed’ study: watchdog.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:
It’s honestly too funny watching the people who called everything Nazism for years see a guy with a giant deaths head Nazi skull tattoo over his heart go “You know weirdly enough this is okay” https://t.co/MxViBAZ2YW
— HowlingMutant (@Howlingmutant0) October 24, 2025
IT’S ONLY “DEMOCRACY” WHEN THE LEFT GETS WHAT IT WANTS:
I’m wondering how it’s not a democracy when a guy promises to do certain things, gets elected to the presidency, and then does those things https://t.co/GBV1EA4e9Y
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 24, 2025
THE LEFT TAKES OVER EVERYTHING IT CAN, USUALLY WHILE PRETENDING INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY: Political Bias at Wikipedia and in AI.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: CPS security guard sexually assaulted students in her home while her husband was dying: prosecutors. “A former Chicago Public Schools security guard is charged with sexually assaulting two female students in her home while her husband was dying of colon cancer, prosecutors said. Heather Pancer, 48, of Hammond, Indiana, worked as a security guard at George Washington High School near the state line when the assaults occurred between 2018 and 2020, Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Pekara said during a detention hearing.”
I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG:
What? Andrew Sullivan is … BASED? https://t.co/e33dQBI3Vv
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 24, 2025
October 24, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
COMING AT US OUT OF THE SUN! Astronomers discover 2nd fastest asteroid in the solar system hiding in the sun’s glare. It’s like the Red Baron of asteroids.
I STILL THINK THAT A LOT OF THEM COME FROM MSNBC: 50-Year-Old Theory on Schizophrenia’s ‘Voices’ Confirmed by Recent Study.
Seriously, I think these people are throwbacks to a premodern mental state, as Julian Jaynes hypothesized.
I USED TO THINK THE BULWARK WAS JUST STUPID, BUT IT’S ACTUALLY KIND OF EVIL:
Charlie Kirk was assassinated last month by being shot in the throat, in public on a college campus. It was captured on cell phones from several different places.
It was the first viral political assassination in American history.
The Bulwark: pic.twitter.com/PSEyLeuC4R
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 24, 2025
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Solar-Powered Eye Implant Restores Reading Vision.
UM, WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING WITH THE MEAT? Nearly 1 in 5 urinary tract infections linked to contaminated meat, study finds.
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: GM Killing One Chevrolet EV, Doubling Gas Chevrolet Equinox Production.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Realistic Strength Training for Gun Guys (and Everyone Else).
THEY TOLD US POT WAS A GATEWAY DRUG: Teenagers and young adults who use cannabis have a higher risk of progressing to regular tobacco use, study finds.