“The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech” (NYT, 9/15/2021) is a delightful intersection between two of the greatest gifts to this weblog, i.e., Elizabeth Holmes … | Continue reading
Apple News thought I would love “Singing songs of praise for our non-binary family” (The Sunday Times (not one of the tabloids!)) and the robot overlords were certainly correct. From th… | Continue reading
Coronapanic in the U.S. has enabled humans and dogs to share more experiences. #CovidBringsUsCloser From Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: (“Dogs are required to be vaccinated and display current … | Continue reading
“Why Does No One Ever Talk About Sweden Anymore?” (substack, 9/16/2021) has some interesting charts, all adjusted for population size. The virtuous and vaccinated Israelis are being mow… | Continue reading
“The Automatic Digital Computer as an Aid in Medical Diagnosis” (1959, Crumb and Rupe) is an interesting example of hope versus reality. Computers will turn medicine into a science and … | Continue reading
We accept asylum-seekers because it is our moral duty, or so we are informed. Yet, as a practical matter, most of the people who can request asylum are those who are physically tough enough to trav… | Continue reading
A friend who works at Mass General Brigham, the largest non-government employer in Maskachusetts, was told that he/she/ze/they (to protect this person’s identify, I won’t specify gender… | Continue reading
Lockdowns and school closures were advertised as being for the protection of children (as are the current measures limiting kids’ activities). How did Americans do in terms of protecting chil… | Continue reading
We wanted to get a Ring camera for our apartment in Florida. The crime rate in this neighborhood is low, but we have our golden retriever to protect! How worried about crime are Americans? The Ring… | Continue reading
Photos below of a church in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the nation’s wealthiest neighborhoods (thank you, Big Government!). We learn the preferred pronouns of the minister. Also that Kara Scro… | Continue reading
Dr. Joe Biden, M.D., Ph.D., has read all of the papers and looked at the data and made a science-informed decision to order anyone who wants to keep working in a Medicare/Medicaid-funded health car… | Continue reading
Messages from a suburban Massachusetts friend to a group chat: Philip, you were right to move out of hereI just got into my daughter’s phone to read what she and her friends are talking about… | Continue reading
When friends who don’t follow #Science (most have MDs and/or PhDs) ask why U.S. state governors (except for the infidels in South Dakota and Florida) have generally ordered lockdowns, masks, … | Continue reading
I’m wondering if we should expect a massive increase in the number of Americans who transition to the disability lifestyle during the Biden administration. Let’s consider today’s … | Continue reading
Electric cars don’t need a cooling airflow from the front, thus rendering grilles superfluous. The Tesla 3 has a flat nose and a slab where you’d expect the grille: Some competitors have figu… | Continue reading
“UN Afghanistan donor conference raises $1 billion with crisis looming” (DW): The UN says humanitarian aid money would go to maintain medical services, the water supply and sanitation f… | Continue reading
As readers may have noticed, I’m a contrarian when it comes to COVID-19 (along with the 60,000 physicians and PhDs who’ve signed the Great Barrington Declaration). To me, the untested &… | Continue reading
“Hyundai Ioniq 5 vs Q4 e-Tron vs Polestar 2 vs Model 3 group test (2021) review” (Car, an English magazine) says that the Hyundai is huge and maybe better for carrying adults in the bac… | Continue reading
Mostly-Democrat Palm Beach County was one of the local governments ready to fight the governor’s “no mask orders in schools” order (a.k.a. “parental choice order”) wit… | Continue reading
Before departing from Maskachusetts last month in the Cirrus SR20 (ferry trip to her new home in the Florida Free State), I mentioned to a woman in the old neighborhood that I’d be visiting a… | Continue reading
Some 9/11 reflections… U.S. military spending in 2000 was $320 billion. That’s about $520 billion in today’s mini-dollars. The 2021 military spend is about $700 billion (35 percen… | Continue reading
Inspired by the official coronascience that I’ve seen in the last 1.5 years, here is an analysis that follows the same logic and methodology…. Florida was suffering from a terrible coro… | Continue reading
Coronavirus is here to stay, just as the Swedish MD/PhDs said back in February 2020 (“don’t lock down unless you’re willing to keep everyone at home for the next 20 years”).… | Continue reading
As part of our escape to the Florida Free State, I drove our minivan down I-95 from Maskachusetts. Mindy the Crippler and I hit traffic in Virginia, associated with an I-95 Express Lane extension p… | Continue reading
A follow-up to We care more about Afghan migrants than about homegrown indigent? … To celebrate the company’s plan to provide 86 cents per Afghan refugee (see below), the Uber app now h… | Continue reading
Build downdraft paint booths for K-12 schools? (July 2020, here on this blog): The technology for downdraft paint booths is highly advanced … Why not a system for schools in which (a) each cl… | Continue reading
The idea of indirect monitoring of tire pressure with sensors already on the car, e.g., wheel speed from the ABS system (just look to see if wheels are spinning at different speeds and/or look at G… | Continue reading
“National insurance hike sets UK on path to record level of taxes” (CNN): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to hike payroll taxes to raise billions in funding for health and … | Continue reading
From a flight planning service (for Gulfstreams and similar jets): As mentioned last week and in yesterday’s webinar, we now have a program to help you eliminate the wasted time and risks associate… | Continue reading
Prior to coronapanic, approximately 40 million Americans were suffering in poverty (HHS). To these unfortunates, 8 million were added via shutdowns, mask orders, and economic slowdowns (Bloomberg).… | Continue reading
A lot of retail in Cambridge, Maskachusetts did not survive the coronapanic shutdowns and mask orders. Micro Center did however, and while up in Boston to retrieve the Cirrus SR20 I stopped in for … | Continue reading
“Action on Climate Change Is Urged by Medical Journals in Unprecedented Plea” (WSJ, today): Editors of 220 leading medical, nursing and public-health journals from around the world call… | Continue reading
Our Internet provider here in the Florida Free State is AT&T. I was trying to contact them about changing my name on the bill to “Greenspun” from “Greenstun” and somehow… | Continue reading
Fortuna’s wheel has spun downward for Andrew Cuomo. Who could have predicted this? Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, for one. From Wikipedia: In 522, the same year his two sons were appointed joi… | Continue reading
COVID-19 is the world’s greatest source of cognitive dissonance. We are informed by the CDC that roughly 640,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. The same agency tells us that deaths are co… | Continue reading
A friend gets a guaranteed salary as a tenured professor at M.I.T. If he wants to drive away from his comfortable home, fight through the Boston traffic (back with a vengeance), and work all day in… | Continue reading
From August 27, “City of Cambridge Issues Emergency Order Requiring Use of Face Masks in Indoor Public Places, Effective September 3, 2021”: The City of Cambridge issued an emergency or… | Continue reading
Now that the school year is upon us, with periodic coronapanic shutdowns following positive PCR results, it seems like a good time to share the results from our MIT ground school course. We’v… | Continue reading
Top of the front page of CNN.com on a day when New York City was flooded, with multiple fatalities, by the leftovers from Hurricane Ida: “Biden launches ‘whole of government’ effo… | Continue reading
“Are We Jumping the Gun on COVID Boosters?” (MedPage Today, August 24, 2021): Diminishing vaccine effectiveness supposedly makes the case for boosters. But there are two big questions h… | Continue reading
Folks in Maskachusetts tend to be scornful of Florida, dismissing it as a “Red state” with “stupid” residents. But you won’t see a big difference at our local public library (the Jupiter branch of … | Continue reading
Today it’s back to school for students in Lincoln, Maskachusetts. They’ll be fully masked, of course, by local order (from June 2: “We will follow state guidelines in the fall, wh… | Continue reading
We’ve been Florida residents since mid-August. Here are a few first impressions… One of the most important issues to folks in Maskachusetts, at least to judge by lawn signs, emails from… | Continue reading
Department of “Surely coronavirus won’t be waiting for us after we emerge from our bunkers”. From Twitter: Best headline: “Australia Almost Eliminated the Coronavirus by Putting Faith in Scie… | Continue reading
From the Henry Ford Museum: “Toyota Corona” was a good name in 1966. Could it be considered a great name for the 2022 model year? The trim levels can be “Wild type” (or “Not Chinese”?),… | Continue reading
The front page of cnn.com makes the situations caused by Hurricane Ida sound pretty bad: Given that U.S. media adopts a hysterical tone almost every day, should we be skeptical of the forecast doom… | Continue reading
“Should the Government Impose a National Vaccination Mandate?” (New Yorker, by Jeannie Suk Gersen (quoted in the Domestic Violence chapter of Real World Divorce) provides a good window … | Continue reading
My mid-life crisis order from General Motors was pushed from the 2021 model year to the 2022 model year. There have been two price increases since the order was placed in January, but there is also… | Continue reading