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The Long View: Our Stolen Future

This topic is one I have found it rather difficult to write a post about. I've been sitting on this book review of John's for nearly eight months, but it is referenced in the next The Long View blog post, so I need to get it

LinkFest 2016-04-01

April Fool's Edition The CDC is trying to make 86 million Americans sick I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can

LinkFest 2015-12-21

Where America Gets its Winter Lettuce + Lettuce Produces More Greenhouse Gas Emissions than Bacon Does The vast fields of lettuce in Yuma, in all places, are almost enough to drive me to despair. Almost. Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’

Linkfest 2015/12/04

I haven't done a linkfest before, but I get the opportunity to read a lot of interesting things, so this seems like a good opportunity to start. Astronauts age faster in space. This is a bit of a puzzle. I knew some of this, but the peculiar constellation

The Long View 2003-06-13: Rough Justice

Did I mention that John predicted that there would be no major changes in the intellectual movements of the twenty-first century? Who is on top of the struggle at a particular time keeps changing, but the argument never changes. Everything in this post from 2003 is still current, even though

The Long View 2003-04-22: Pandemics

This bit about SARS is interesting twelve years later. Influenza is interesting. The official mortality rate went up compared to what John had here, from 5.6% to 9.6% according to the WHO. Unfortunately, better record-keeping doesn't always equal better stats. This number is likely to be

Host Cell Lines and Homo Sapiens

Greg Cochran has re-posted an interesting article about host cell lines. A host cell line is a microorganism that was until fairly recently a part of some higher organism – roughly speaking, a contagious cancer. We know of one good example, transmissible venereal tumor, also known as canine venereal sarcoma or