Even as Elon Musk’s SpaceX is achieving remarkable success in driving down the cost of space travel – in just a decade Musk has slashed the cost of getting a payload into orbit by 80% – new developments might make all his hard work redundant. Enter the Space Elevator. The idea
The Democrats love to big-note themselves as the party of “science” and “anti-racism” – which makes it doubly odd that one of Biden’s first cabinet picks is a scientifically-illiterate racist. Of course, the “party of science” claim is easily disproven by facts: Republican administrations have always had bigger science and
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
Kevin J Anderson’s ripping, seven-volume space opera, The Saga of Seven Suns, features among its sprawling cast of characters a race of spacefaring, sentient trees called the Verdani. While the concept of “treeships” traversing the galaxy remains firmly the province of science fiction (if not fantasy), Japan is experimenting
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The architect of New Zealand’s elimination strategy for COVID-19, Michael Baker, criticized former “Bachelor” star Naz Khanjani for implying her mild experience of COVID-19 was the typical experience. He said her comments were “dangerous” misinformation, and a “fallacy”. Yet a reality TV star
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Our letter to the NZ Herald regarding the recent story on our NZ Journal of Primary Health Care (https://www.publish.csiro.au/hc/Fulltext/HC20132). Vaccine caution We recently wrote a scientific article in a leading medical journal which featured prominently in a
After half a century of being “just a few years away”, are we actually about to see some real progress in fusion technology? I’m not holding my breath, but there does seem to be a promising burst of new research and activity. More importantly, the private sector is dipping
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Covid Plan B was ‘fact-checked’ as “misleading” for publishing on Facebook our article which used the existing conventional standard of statistical interpretation to find that a Danish study on mask wearing meant there was no significant benefit to wearing a mask against Covid-19. This
Dr. John Happs PA Pundits – International Dr. John Happs M.Sc.1st Class; D.Phil. John has an academic background in the geosciences with special interests in climate, and paleoclimate. He has been a science educator at several universities in Australia and overseas and was President of the Western Australian
Mercedes Burns University of Maryland, Baltimore County An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked. Why? Her mother had never been with a male water dragon. Through genetic testing, zoo scientists discovered the newly hatched female, born on Aug. 24,
Zilvinas Silenas fee.org Zilvinas Silenas became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2019. He served from 2011-2019 as the President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), bringing the organization and its free-market policy reform message to the forefront of Lithuanian public discourse. Nearly a
Chris Bryant University of Bath Cultured meat made from animal cells without animal slaughter has been approved for sale for the first time. The approval, granted by the Singapore Food Agency to US food company Eat Just for their cultured “chicken bites”, is a watershed moment for the future of
When the mapping of the human genome was declared complete nearly 20 years ago, pundits hailed it as the dawn of a brave new era of genetic medicine. Well, it took a while, but those breathless claims seem to finally be coming to fruition. The most well-known – and controversial – manifestation
Mining the asteroid belt for resources – chiefly metals – has long been a staple of science fiction. Both Larry Niven’s “Known Space” novels and James S. A. Corey’s “Expanse” novels and tv series feature a distinct human sub-culture of “Belters” who live and mine the remote rocks of the
While Australia and New Zealand slavishly follow the EU’s obsessive focus on “renewables” despite the mathematically incontrovertible fact that they just cannot feasibly replace fossil fuels, some in the US are recalling America’s “can do” spirit – and making next-generation nuclear happen. Five minutes’ scribbling on the back of
