Sounds like a maintenance problem to me. There’s no excuse for a fuel leak in an aircraft like that.
Category Archives: Business
Fixing Broken Bread
An interesting article on going back to pre-industrial wheat.
It isn’t clear the degree to which grain is intrinsically bad for us, and to which it’s been made much worse by the current varieties and processing methods.
I found this an interesting statement: “The giant band of wheat that stripes the center of America is a byproduct of the industrial age.”
That could be said of many unhealthy things, including the public school system.
Legal Myths About ObamaCare
…and why it isn’t “here to stay.”
Yes, the notion that it’s going to continue to survive the myriad court challenges ahead is wishful thinking on the part of the statists.
Lowell Wood
Ashlee Vance, author of the biography of Elon Musk, has a nice (and fascinating) piece on him.
A Cancer-Fighting Virus
…has been genetically engineered.
I propose that anti-GMO types not be given access to it. Of course, if they stick to their…guns…they would refuse it.
Vegans
That time they started a war with an Irish restaurateur that they were hilariously doomed to lose.
Football Physics
I’ve been proposing this for years. You could also put sensors in the feet and knees to determine in-bounds and when a player does down.
Milo Yiannopoulos
His terrifying allure. An interesting story by one of his feminist “adversaries.”
The California High-Speed Boondoggle
This idiocy can’t end soon enough. Fortunately, even the state’s idiot electorate has finally seen the light.
Bootstrapping A Solar-System Civilization
Encouraging thoughts from David Brin on what he calls the “best year for space since the 70s.”