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Monday, January 30, 2023

Keeping Time with the Doomsday Clock

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  In a recent piece in The Dispatch , Jonah Goldberg takes issue with the seriousness surrounding the Doomsday Clock, a ki...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Conservative Futurism and the Internet

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  In the Winter 2023 issue of The New Atlantis , lawyer and author John Ehrett points out that the bloom of enthusiasm tha...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Mustard Sauce, or The Turn of Two Screws

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  Trust me, I'll get around to engineering ethics before the end of this column, but right now I'd like to tell yo...
Monday, January 09, 2023

Fusion Energy Is Still A Decade Away—At Least

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  Last December 5, at 1:03 AM in California's National Ignition Facility, 192 lasers fired into a tiny metal can calle...
Monday, January 02, 2023

What? Twitter Neutral?

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  Back when I started this blog in 2006, the phrase "social media" was hardly used by anybody, according to Goog...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Engineering and the Immigration Crisis

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  As I write this, the U. S. Supreme Court has just issued a temporary order allowing Title 42, a border restriction appli...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Terrorism and the U. S. Power Grid

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  Modern life in advanced industrial societies depends on the availability of certain basic utilities such as water, sewag...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Time Is Running Out on TikTok in the U. S.

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  The video-sharing app TikTok has come up several times in this space in the last year, and never in a complimentary way....
Monday, December 05, 2022

Global Warming, Monsoons, and Engineering

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  Depending on where you live in the U. S., if you ask someone what the worst problem facing humanity is today, you'll...