Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

TRUE:

Now we need punishment, to discourage similar actions in the future.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

LINUS PAULING SMILES: Common Vitamin Could Be The Secret to Younger-Looking Skin. “A new study has found that nourishment with vitamin C boosts epidermal thickness in lab-grown human skin models, and it does this by reactivating genes linked to cell growth. What’s more, vitamin C concentrations normally delivered to human skin via the bloodstream are sufficient to have a measurable effect.”

BARRETT WASN’T A DISSENT:

WYLIE AND BALMER THOUGHT OF THIS NEARLY A CENTURY AGO: This Is Not the Way We Usually Imagine the World Will End: Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. “The researchers found that 0.5 percent of their simulations resulted in planets colliding or a planet being ejected from the solar system. And the world most likely to be affected in such a cataclysm? “Mercury is the most vulnerable planet by far,” Dr. Raymond said.”

DIDDY FOUND GUILTY ON TWO PROSTITUTION CHARGES, NOT GUILTY ON EVERYTHING ELSE. I haven’t been following the case, but the press made it sound like a slam dunk. Maybe the evidence wasn’t really there? I dunno.

It’s certainly a defeat for whatever remains of of the #MeToo movement, though, and the “believe all women” claim. Clearly the jury didn’t.

#JOURNALISM:

EXACTLY RIGHT:

FOR SOME REASON, LEFTISTS FEEL COMPELLED TO FAKE THEIR BIOS: