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Business, Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

Claudine Gay

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…has gone away.

I’m not as optimistic as Glenn is that this, or October 7th, represented a sea change. She is, after all, still at Harvard as a full professor, despite her obvious mediocrity and venality. But I hope that it’s woken enough people up from woke that the Democrats will finally (and deservedly) lose the automatic Jewish vote.

[Update a few minutes later]

She’ll do fine. Sadly.

Administrative, Business, Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

Happy 2024

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Let’s try to enjoy the new year for at least a day. I fear that we’re in for a rough ride.

Speaking of which, thoughts on the coming war between the macroculture and microculture.

I’ve thought about starting a Substack, but I’m not sure I want to devote enough time to it to make it worthwhile reading.

[Update a few minutes later]

The pitfalls of benevolence.

Business, Economics, Education, Science And Society, Space, Technology and Society

AIAA SciTech

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As you can see in the left sidebar, I’m planning to attend next month in Orlando. They used to be in San Diego, and I haven’t been to one since before the pandemic. ASCEND was a huge upgrade over their previous annual space conference, and I’m curious to see how much SciTech has changed in the past few years.

As you can see from the program, it has a wide variety of papers on not just space (my primary interest, as always), but aviation as well. The number of simultaneous topics is overwhelming (as it has been in the past), but I’ll be interested primarily in sessions on space resources, space assembly and servicing, life support for larger facilities, nuclear propulsion (both electric and thermal), human logistics in space and space medicine, advances in additive manufacturing, AI applications and, of course space policy. I’ll also be discussing my own participation in the Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force, which was first announced at this event a year ago.

I don’t know if there will be any news broken there, but if there is, I’ll be blogging about it here. I won’t be attending Friday, because I have to be in DC. But I will be there Monday through Thursday, and I hope I’ll see some of you there.