It’s been 65 years since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring began the US environmental protection movement, and now that we’re talking about dismantling it entirely, I think it’s worth talking about this Daily Beast article. Even if outright banning DDT was wrong — and maybe it was — that’s no excuse for returning to an age of environmental ignorance.
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In which I point out that even though it’s not targeting universities, the new legislation aimed at giving Americans priority in tech jobs is going to have a massively detrimental effect on the quality of American research going forward.
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Image: Facebook Two days ago, The Guardian reported that Facebook had “walked” the team of humans that managed their “trending” links, and had handed their jobs over to an algorithm that had apparently been “learning” […]
The economics of incentives | Photo: Ken Teegardin, CC BY-SA 2.0 *** Just yesterday, I posted two stories to the Facebook page that had to do with market competition — one about Google expanding its […]
Sounds like a delightful program! | Image: The Satanic Temple Just so you know, according to the Friendly Atheist, 5% of elementary schools across America have explicitly Christian after school programs called “Good News Clubs.” […]
Don’t throw it back! Take it and all its friends! | Photo: David Keep, CC BY 2.0 *** There’s an old song made “famous” by Burl Ives that I grew up listening to and — because Canada — […]
Good things and bad things, folks. *** Last week I wrote about how, thanks to the rise in popularity of LARCs, or Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives, America is seeing a decline in unintended pregnancies. This […]