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I agree. I see climate engineering as the short term solution that will get us to the long term solution. Without commenting on this specific implementation, experiments could be d…

I'm not much of a tennis fan but I really enjoyed this book. The evolution of training and strategy during his era which is a subtext throughout is really interesting.

The restructuring and firings are already happening. The infrastructure is being destroyed.

Given that humans are 'wired for story', perhaps you should consider indulging. These could be what makes the books stand out after all.

Thanks for posting this, it's a very interesting case study. Considering that the thing they seem to excel at is this type of writing, it's interesting that they still seem to be o…

Seriously! Family of 5? Five bowls, five spoons ... Maybe have some extras in a hard to find place on the rare occasion of entertaining.

"Briefly, the US has the capacity to decisively win on one or two fronts at a time, so its strategic logic leads it to want to wrap up conflicts in order: put an end to the Ukraine…

where and how does one acquire the '1970's Cambodia feel' without having actually been there?

I'll give the flaggers the benefit of the doubt and say that the article has a lot of assertions but little substance backing them up. I've seen comments (indeed on some of the fla…

Insiders have little say. NSF is probably the most merit based system in all the US government. Literally any other program (defense?) is less merit based. Also, if nepotism and fa…

I can't deny that person's experience but mine has not been that at all .

This is false. The grants were not approved based on race. The grants were approved based on merit toward the goals of the field of science to which they were submitted. Showing ho…

I'm in a totally different field and this is 100% my experience. Some of the old papers have really great ideas that no one ever worked on, or talk about problems, which we have mo…

One of the hilarious things about rewatching old episodes of Seinfeld is his use of a cordless phone that I swear is the size of a toaster!

This is happening already, it has happened to my neighbors. As resident of CA in a neighborhood which previously was not, but now probably is, 'fire prone' I fully expect to hear f…

Lots of comments stating as fact without explanation that angular momentum has no impact on rideability, so here is more information. I had no idea that this had been worked out (m…

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner is similarly great for some of the earlier/origin stories of Bell Labs.

More info from a local website: "Investigators later determined the drone likely flew 1.8 miles from the park into Vandenberg’s restricted area. Armed with a federal warrant, agent…

Late to the party, but this is something I've wanted to do for a long time. My background is in signal processing but the hardware has always been somewhat mysterious to me. Here i…