Joe Biden has two immediate goals: to control the pandemic and to make the benefits of the economy more generally available. He said it in his victory speech this morning: How do we give you some brea
Popular movements in the late 1950s pressed toward the Limited Test-Ban Treaty (LTBT), signed in 1963, which prohibited atmospheric testing. It was preceded by a voluntary test moratorium by the Unite
Last week Julia Ioffe published an article claiming that Walter Reed Army Hospital had filled up with victims of unidentified health incidents, although she used the title phrase. I use it only becaus
The latest is combining two components to make an enormously strong glue, as we do with epoxy. That’s what mussels have been doing much longer. Mussels live in a difficult environment – sea rocks
UFOs, Havana Syndrome, and the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a Chinese laboratory are all security threats. But not the way you may think. All three posit diabolical motives and capabil
Paul’s post makes a number of good points, but slips up seriously on one. For a long time I’ve thought that it would make more sense to describe “the Sixties” as the period between Novembe
Over the weekend, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe were arrested by the FBI in West Virginia for trying to sell classified information on nuclear submarines to another country. What Toebbe didn’t know was
I see we need a thread to discuss and speculate on what the problem is with everyone’s favorite social media. It seems to be a DNS problem, which is basic and fundamental. The Facebook empire ha