Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Nuclear Power Myths

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Japan Nuclear Reactors

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Confusion reigns. Keith Yost at MIT: From the information we have, we can draw a conclusion anywhere between “the reactor is undamaged and being cooled” to “the reactor cladding and/or fuel has been partially damaged, but the damage is contained and the reactor is being cooled.” The question that should be asked now is whether [...]

Dear President Obama

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Get off your butt, and ensure we are sending the best that the United States of America can provide to help the nation and people of Japan. Stop worrying about re-election and the NCAA tournament: This morning, as Japan’s nuclear crisis enters a potentially catastrophic phase, we are told that Obama is videotaping his NCAA [...]

Apple and the Great Tohoku Quake

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Digg founder Kevin Rose.

Democracies and Disaster Preparedness

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Classic: Every trillion squandered on global warming, is a trillion not spent on earthquake preparedness. And Ilya Somin: The massive destruction and tragic loss of life in the recent earthquake in Japan will surely rekindle debates over how well democratic governments handle natural disaster. The good news is that democracies handle natural disasters much better [...]

Obama Energy Plan

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Continues to choke the economy, and Hugh Hewitt calls the question for both the President and the Obama Media: Of course, we don’t have new wells off East or West Coast, and, of course, the president hasn’t done anything to expand production in Alaska either. It is absurd for the president to claim anything other [...]

Egypt’s Kill Switch

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

And Obama wants this power. UPDATE: Necessity is the mother of invention.

Lives Changed

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

By medical technology that ObamaCare will snuff out.

First Ever Photograph of Man

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Awesome.

Color TV: A History

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Terry Teachout: Me, I like black-and-white movies, and I can recall with embarrassing ease a time when color TV was a rarity reserved for the rich. The earliest color TV sets, which went on sale in 1954, cost $1,295 each, a bit more than ten thousand dollars in today’s money. My family, which didn’t have [...]