This to me is one of the most important images from the Apollo missions, and its something most people outside space circles don't know about, and may not get the significance of. It shows Pete Conrad standing next to Surveyor 3, an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the Moon in

Unilateral nuclear disarmament. "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh." Stop nuclear energy. "The Limits to growth." Population explosion. To name but five.

Rachel Moiselle The problem with the modern left is that they are so caught up in their self-righteousness they fail to ever stop and think. They ascribe to a naïve deontology where their self professed "pure intentions" are all that matter, not the nitty gritty consequences of actions in the

Charlie Kirk's killer had "Hey fascist! Catch!" etched into one of his shell casings. Back in 2018, Bari Weiss warned us about the left's habit of labeling everyone they disagree with as "fascist." She called its effect "the moral flattening of the earth." "At this point, such

Noah Smith 🐇 Not only that. The west abandoned important stoic values (or protestant depending on how you look at it) of not comparing yourself to others but focusing on bettering yourself. Everything is turned into a form of constant comparison with others now.

The entire way of thinking around work in France is problematic. For example, one argument often used in the past for not increasing the retirement age is that once someone retires, a new job is freed up. This is a bit wrong on many levels. A person retiring is never really

The political echo chamber problem is not a Right-wing issue. Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, people on the Right created alternative social media platforms out of necessity, because they were being banned from mainstream ones. After Elon bought Twitter, people on the Left

Who else is surprised that a party started by factionalists known for scheming and recriminations immediately descended into factionalism, scheming, and recriminations? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Free speech doesn’t belong to the left or the right. Both will claim it when it suits their purpose, and both will disavow it for the same reason. The only people who genuinely support free speech are those rare souls whose principles are strong enough to survive politics itself.

The UK's now in a peculiar position of recognising Palestine, which barely functions as a political entity, yet we do not extend recognition to Taiwan or Somaliland, both of which have governments, legislatures and electoral systems, and are actually operative polities.

Your instincts are your puppet-strings. Me in 2018:

The same author, with a co-author, just published another paper which further strengthens the conclusion of that study using an information-provision experiment. They find that, if you manipulate the beliefs of voters on the CDU's position on immigration to make them believe that

The United Nations was an aborted attempt at creating a one world government, the dearest aspiration of early twentieth century socialists (who were also kind of flirting with fascism, see H G Wells’ “Things to Come”) It almost immediately failed to be anything besides a talking

Islam must be subject to criticism, mockery and ridicule - just as any religion is a free society. Those attempting to meet that with violence must feel the full force of the law. The message this absurd sentence sends is the Muslims have a right to honour violence.

Don't all kill me at once, but i think this is important. Agreeing to differ and still loving someone is OK. I don't agree with one of my daughters about gender ideology, we still love each other and always will.

If your paper is a breakthrough, it’ll probably be rejected because the rewiewers won’t get it.

There is a very important difference between saying ‘f*ck Christians/f*ck Christianity’, ‘f*ck Muslims/f*ck Islam’, ‘f*ck Jews/f*ck Judaism’. The former is hatred against a religious group, the latter is disdain of the organised religion itself. Neither should be illegal, to be

In all seriousness, the damage @nature and its homologs have done to science by equating flashy results to progress is incalculable.

Rachel Moiselle Democracy is built on free discourse and open dialogue. Repression of, and punishment for, speech is antithetical to democracy, and are the hallmarks of authoritarianism such as fascism. A democracy cannot regulate speech of any kind and remain a functioning democracy.

Calling Netanyahu a bad and lethal Israeli leader - not antisemitism. Attacking a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur - Antisemitism. And while we are at it: Accusing Israel of well-documented war crimes, anger at Israel - not antisemitism. Calling for the annihilation of the