The hope of progress
Having recently received a life sentence of quite advanced lung cancer, I find myself noticing reports like this one entitled Ultra-precise lasers remove cancer cells without damaging nearby tissue....
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Engine issue
Via Instapundit, this: Police in Broomfield stated on Twitter that they received reports of dropped debris in several neighborhoods … One of the engines on a passing United Airlines plane exploded. The...
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A list of Libertarian Alliance publications by Chris Tame
I’ve been reflecting on the career and achievements of Chris Tame: Those being three more photos of Chris that I recently exhumed from my “filing system”. Below is a list of the pieces of writing by...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
View ArticleWhat I now feel able to say about Prince Philip
Nothing at all remarkable, just so you now know. Don’t read this posting for dazzling insights. It’s just that the last couple of days and the next few days are an example of a common thing, which is...
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Lots of people watch the FA Cup Final
Today I watched the FA Cup Final on television, in which Leicester City defeated Chelsea by the momentous margin of one-nil. The one was good, though. But the reason I watched it was because it had a...
View Article“It Charges 60 Times Faster Than Lithium-Ion …”
This sounds promising: The graphene aluminum-ion battery cells from the Brisbane-based Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) are claimed to charge up to 60 times faster than the best lithium-ion cells and...
View ArticleDeveloping countries were able to leapfrog that bottleneck
Mixed metaphor alert! HumanProgress.org as recycled by Jacob Tudor: The landline phone never reached more than 21.4% of the world’s population By adopting cellular technology, developing countries were...
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City Big Things photo
I love photos like this, looking up at the City of London’s Big Things, which I found above a piece of “partner content” at the FT: Like I say, I like photoing upwards at the City of London’s Big...
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The rest of my friend’s photos of Saturday’s Covid demo in London
Indeed. Here are the rest of those photos, this time all the horizontal ones: I’m still trying to gather my thoughts about this demo, and the many others like it, and about demos generally. When do...
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