TOO BAD THEY DIDN’T HAVE PREHISTORIC SUVs: An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here’s how.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 12, 2024
WELL, GOOD: A New Biological Pathway: Major Cause of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Discovered. “Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute identified a key biological pathway in IBD involving the ETS2 protein, which can be targeted with already available MEK inhibitor drugs to potentially reduce disease symptoms.”
CHANGE: What Is ‘Ozempic Face’, And Why Is It So Controversial? “It’s known that when significant body weight is rapidly lost, excess skin around the temples, cheeks, eye, jawline, and mouth can sag and wrinkle. Depending on an individual’s diet and hydration, their skin can appear duller, dryer and more wrinkled as body fat drops. What’s more, the use of GLP-1 agonists – regardless of fat loss – can also cause changes to the size of a person’s lips, cheeks and chin. Studies show that patients who experience massive weight loss in general are more likely to look several years older in the face than those who don’t.”
Yes, everyone I’ve known over 50 who has lost a lot of poundage has looked funny for a while. The skin needs time to catch up.
SO I FINALLY FINISHED J.N. CHANEY & JONATHAN BRAZEES’ Sentenced to War series. Good future Space Marines style military SF, though at 15 books, it’s an awful lot thereof. But it came to a satisfactory conclusion. Plenty of page-turning entertainment!
I took a break in the middle to read Blood-Warm Waters, the latest in Scott Cook’s WWII submarine series. Good reading, though I doubt that Admiral Yamamoto spent much time thinking about any particular U.S. sub as he went about his business. Also good page-turning entertainment, if not quite in P.T. Deutermann territory.
CALLED TO COURT FOR EXPOSING THE TRUTH: New hearing ordered over more leaked writings from Covenant School shooter: The Tennessee Star and its editor-in-chief could be held in contempt of court. “It comes after the judge in the case, I’Ashea Myles, warned against further leaks, threatening contempt of court for anyone who did it again. However, Judge Myles was unaware of the supposed leak, until WSMV4 Investigates’ Stacey Cameron called the court asking for a reaction to the leak, wanting to know if she was considering holding the Star or anyone else in contempt.”
Journalists didn’t used to try to gin up prosecutions of journalists for reporting the news.
The Supreme Court ruled in Bartnicki v. Vopper that journalists can’t be punished for publishing even illegally obtained material so long as they’re not the ones who illegally obtained it. I don’t see contempt of court applying any differently.
EAT WELL EVEN IF YOU EAT LESS: Guidelines outline nutrition requirements for those on Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: UAW President Shawn Fain Under Investigation for Alleged Retaliation.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: New Revolvers From Colt: Two new .357 Mag. wheelguns and a thumper in .44 Mag.
IT’S HARD TO SEE THESE THINGS BEING REALLY USEFUL UNTIL THE HALLUCINATION PROBLEM IS LICKED: AI speech-to-text can hallucinate violent language. “Speak a little too haltingly and with long pauses, and OpenAI’s speech-to-text transcriber might put harmful, violent words in your mouth, Cornell researchers have discovered.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Study: Short-duration spaceflights pose no significant health risks.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Big Trouble At America’s Small Banks.
HAVE YOU TRIED SPACE LYSOL? ISS spacewalk to study microorganisms on exterior of orbiting lab.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Test used to assess concussion in athletes may be useless, research shows.
FLASHBACK: An untraditional war: We can’t stop ISIL-inspired massacres if we deny we’re fighting Islam’s jihadist strain. “The thing is, proposals such as gun control are basically peacetime remedies, which don’t apply in time of war. But traditional wartime remedies might not work, either, because this is not a traditional war. . . . There were warning signs with the San Bernardino shooters, whose neighbors reportedly didn’t want to call the cops for fear of being thought racist. And there were warning signs with Mateen, who apparently had been on security officials’ radar screen for some time but not enough to do anything about it. Classmates of Nidal Hassan said he regularly spouted Islamist propaganda months before he shot up Fort Hood, but the military was too politically correct to do anything and afterward tried for some time to pretend that his deliberate, jihadist attack was merely ‘workplace violence.'”
Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack was supposed to be a page-flipper warning, not prophecy.
I’M BEGINNING TO WARM TO HER: Anti-Israel students, faculty don’t like Yale’s new president.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Terry Gibbs, The Resentful Citizen Looks at America.
WHY SHOULD TAXPAYERS SUPPORT A TOXIC INDUSTRY THAT TURNS OUT PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA? Rich Students Disproportionally Play the Radical: Should We Fund Elite Universities?
Related: The Masked Mobs in our Streets.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: He Accused Israel of Genocide Days After Oct. 7. The University of Minnesota Tapped Him To Lead Its Genocide Studies Center.
JEFFREY CARTER: Jobs: It’s Complicated.
DON SURBER: Nice Try, FJB. Sacrificing Hunter won’t work.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT? UCLA Was Poised To Launch Its Own Investigation of Medical School Admissions—But Refused To Protect Whistleblowers From Retaliation.
SHUT UP, YOU CORRUPT HACK: Merrick Garland Pens Op-ed Declaring Criticism Of His DOJ ‘Dangerous.’
It’s only dangerous in that Garland might arrest the critics on trumped-up charges, which is what he does.
Related:
Merrick Garland Threatens To Arrest Anyone Who Says His DOJ Is Corrupt https://t.co/jRH81jgxU9 pic.twitter.com/iUIgkYARgp
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 11, 2024