Month: July 2014

If more education is better, then the higher you go, the more money you make! Right? Um, not quite: 36,000 new PhDs each year, and only around 3,000 new positions created. Nothing new or surprising there. What is called “academia” is not dominated by academicians, but by bueaucrats who raise the cost of what is called “higher education”…

I didn’t, but I do now. …the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called “the Linux Journal…

I was reading about a recent endocannabinoid conference and came across this interesting bit: What is clear from these presentations is that FDA model of approving drugs is simply unfit to manage the science that is coming. The conventional concept of one drug targeting one receptor is all that model can approve. The Pharma industry…

It’s an amusing analogy, except I see a problem. An assumption is being made that the alarmists’ arguments are in any way susceptible to rational debate. Even if the data reveal cooling, the alarmists will still call it warming, or “climate change” and say it proves they were right. This will be dismissed by them…

Another day, another megalomaniac doing everything in his power to tell people what to do: James Cameron and wife to launch campaign advocating sustainable plant-only based diet Film director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, an actor and model, are planning a global campaign to persuade people to move towards a plant-only diet…

I had a lady whose site I will not mention ask me to promote her site since she was doing a fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I asked her if she had anything on MS and cannabis. She directed me to that part of her site and I took a look. Then I replied to…

From Lionell Griffith: … if you keep doing the same thing and keep getting results contrary to your spoken objective, your real objective is the results you get.

While the above is a nice slogan, popularized by Milton Friedman and others, it is hardly applied consistently. Try, for example, to “choose” certain drugs: Psychedelic mushrooms can do more than make you see the world in kaleidoscope. Research suggests they may have permanent, positive effects on the human brain. […] This dampening of one…

Kind of an odd headline for a general readership blog? You bet. So why? Because I think there is a deeper meaning. From Plastics News. North American prices for solid polystyrene resin fell again in June amid weak demand for that material. Solid PS prices ticked down an average of 1 cent per pound, according…

Whether she intended to or not, Joan Rivers steals the show at the Drudge Report. Yow!

If humans are in fact “Hard-Wired To Drink,” then what’s the point of the endless attempts to identify and label people “alcoholics” and then subject them to various treatments and cures? I’m asking because to some it matters a great deal (to the control freaks, at least) whether people are born with certain traits or desires…

As best as I can tell, the Obama administration is doing nothing about this shit: BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of the extremist group that seized much of northern Iraq and Syria called on Muslims worldwide on Tuesday to join the battle and help build an Islamic state in the newly conquered territory. The 19-minute…