Monthly Archives: November 2023

Source: What might NuScale’s cancellation mean for Ghana and other nuclear aspirants?

Source: John Clauser won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change. – The Washington Post

This update of David MacKay’s numbers suggests that it may be possible to eliminate CO2 emissions (at least in the UK) without relying on an extended period of nuclear power use. But on the other side of the coin we have … Continue reading →

I agree that Secularism in Iran is not just a form of Western ‘imperialism’, but was surprised to see no mention in that Aeon Essay of what I would consider to be the indigenous Iranian analogues (and precursors!) of “Western” … Continue reading →

When we get tired of complaining about their coal-fired electric plants we can always turn to the fact that China’s Spending on Green Energy Is Causing a Global Glut – WSJ

In How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Fame, the editors of The Economist  (of all people!) display a complete misunderstanding of the economics of wealth concentration. In particular, they allege that “. . the famous folk complaining the loudest about the new … Continue reading →

The principle of a universal Carbon tax should never have been violated and any weakening of its application invites others to follow. The debacle caused by the Liberal government’s bizarre introduction of a partial exemption could have easily been avoided … Continue reading →

I don’t know whether or not AOC really accused the US of testing chemical weapons for Israel, or whether such an accusation would be anti-semitic, or whether or not it’s true. But it did occur to me that when dealing … Continue reading →

The claim in this recent Globe&Mail article that “EDI administrators do not categorize Jews as a racialized minority” does need to be investigated. And if it’s true, then that situation should be corrected. And if “a deeply engrained culture of … Continue reading →

The extent to which lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing confirms my expectation that we’ll eventually discover how any human cell has the potential for becoming, with the appropriate stimulus and environment, first a stem cell, then a … Continue reading →

Source: The Economist

A Quora question asks: From your own perspective, frame of reference, if you are not accelerating, are you not moving at all? Perhaps the reason people find this difficult to grasp is because of the ambiguous and unnecessary words “at … Continue reading →