DEI is DIEing.
Confessions Of A Rocket Boy
Glenn Reynolds remembers Estes rockets. I share his hope that the new space age is motivating boys (and girls) to do more of this and less social media.
End Of An Era
Less than half an hour to the final flight of the Delta family.
It was a workhorse for decades, but it’s now obsolete technology.
Drainpipe Drones
As always, war drives technology.
Boeing
It was even worse than we knew.
And yes, the “suicide” does look very suspicious. After reading this, there is little I’d put past these “leaders.”
[Evening update]
On the other hand, how can a lot of these stories about wheels falling off, or engine parts falling off, or engines catching fire, be attributed to Boeing? They don’t build the engines. These kinds of things have to be attributed to the operator. Which says that the whole industry is fucked, probably because DEI.
Sabine Hossenfelder
“How I fell out of love with academia.”
Science is badly broken, as is university research (of course, lots of things about universities are badly broken).
Palestinians Are Adults
Yes.
Since 911, many have been indulging in racism in not granting Arabs any moral agency.
[Update a while later]
Biden loses the plot on Israel.
This administration makes up for its disastrous domestic policies with disastrous foreign policy.
Boeing
An insider look at what went wrong. It’s not pretty.
Public Health’s Expert Failure
Carl Schramm on the ongoing failure of the CDC.
[Update a while later]
It wasn’t just Fauci; how the Deep State played Trump.
IFT-3
Not much new to those who have been following it, but Irene Klotz has a nice description of the flight.