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Artemis was a state failure and a human triumph
"If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye," wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else one may say of the agency, its ability to produce evocative images remains unrivaled.
Commentary: Artemis was a state failure and a human triumph
"If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye," wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else one may say of the agency, its ability to produce evocative images remains unrivaled.
Artemis bol zlyhaním štátu a triumfom človeka
„Ak mal veľký mozog NASA nejaký dominantný zmysel, bol to zrak,“ napísal Norman Mailer vo svojej psychedelickej histórii programu Apollo. Nech už o agentúre povieme čokoľvek, jej schopnosť vytvárať pôsobivé obrazy zostáva bezkonkurenčná.
Artemis Was a State Failure and a Human Triumph
April 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM UTC “If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program.
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Dogovor o gornjoj granici duga je bio samo početak
Svijet 06. jun 2023, 20:00 Zahvaljujući dogovoru o budžetu koji je postignut prošle sedmice, Sjedinjene Američke Države su izbjegla prijeteći bankrot za samo nekoliko dana. Sporazum je suspendirao ograničenje državnog zaduživanja i odredio sljedeću samoizazvanu fiskalnu krizu za januar 2025. Washington je, čini se, maknuo budžetsku politiku sa svog dnevnog reda do sljedećih izbora. Nažalost, zemlja si ne može priuštiti opuštanje.
Is carbon removal finally getting serious?
Fitfully, fretfully, the world is beginning to decarbonise. Fossil-fuel demand is likely to peak in the next few years. Solar and wind energy are growing ever cheaper. Related technology, such as battery storage, has improved dramatically. In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cited "signs of progress" — by its standards, an expression of effusive optimism. Unfortunately, this progress won't be enough on its own.
Crypto’s wild week offers a much-needed warning
It has been a wild week in the world of crypto. Hundreds of billions of dollars in ephemeral wealth evaporated as the price of Bitcoin plunged to its lowest point since 2020, down more than 50% in about six months. The exchange Coinbase dropped to about a fifth of last year's initial public offering price. An algorithmic stablecoin called TerraUSD, a digital token that purported to be worth a dollar, melted down along with the blind confidence it had relied on.
IgG1 pan-neurofascin antibodies identify a severe yet treatable neuropathy with a high mortality
IgG1 pan-neurofascin antibodies identify a severe yet treatable neuropathy with a high mortality http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2329-5708Janev Fehmi1, Alexander J Davies1, Jon Walters2, Timothy Lavin3, Ryan Keh3, Alexander M Rossor4, Tudor Munteanu5, Norman Delanty5, Rhys Roberts6, Dirk Bäumer6, Graham Lennox7, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2039-3457Simon Rinaldi1,8 1Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2Department of Neurology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea,...
Trump contracting Covid-19 shouldn’t be a governance problem
A file photo of Donald Trump at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland | Chris Kleponis | Bloomberg Text Size: The news that President Donald Trump has contracted the coronavirus has made a very strange year even stranger, and a stressed and battered political system has suffered a new blow. With a bit of prudence and foresight, however, the country can cope. It’s tempting to entertain dire scenarios at such a moment.
Trump Undermines His Own Impeachment Defense (Again)
Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. He taught political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and DePauw University and wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.
Welcome to the age of quantum computing
October 30, 2019, 6:19 a.m. EDT (Bloomberg Opinion) --Has the era of quantum computing finally dawned? In a field long plagued by hype and hubris, there’s reason for some cautious optimism. A team of scientists at Google’s research lab announced last week in the journal Nature that they had built a quantum computer that could perform calculations in about 200 seconds that would take a classical supercomputer some 10,000 years to do. An age of “quantum supremacy” was duly declared.
Erdoganas apsiskaičiavo ir įsispraudė į kampą: gali tekti skaudžiai mokėti
Deja, atėjo laikas pripažinti kur kas didesnį nepatogumą: savo intencijomis ir tikslais pati Turkija atsiribojo nuo Vakarų. R. T. Erdogano veiksmai pagaliau atitinka jo retoriką.
France’s tech tax is wrong and so is Trump’s response: opinion - Tech News | The Star Online
Fed up with big technology multinationals, most of which just happen to be American, France wants to tax them more heavily. Last week, French lawmakers passed a measure that would impose a tax of up to 5% on digital companies with annual global revenue of more than US$845mil (RM3.4bil) and local revenue of more than US$28mil (RM115mil). "When France shows its will, that’s when things change,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said, with Gallic modesty.
Don’t declare war on big tech: opinion - Tech News | The Star Online
Across the (US) federal government, the knives are officially out for big technology companies. Avoiding a bloodbath should be a priority. As Bloomberg News reported, the House Judiciary Committee is gearing up to investigate unfair business practices by platform companies, while the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have divvied up Silicon Valley’s big four – Amazon.com Inc and Facebook Inc, Apple Inc and Google – as they probe potential antitrust violations.
Internet shutdowns don’t make anyone safer: opinion - Tech News | The Star Online
Around the world, governments are hitting on a modish new idea: Turn the Internet off. Sometimes they mean it literally. Methods vary, but the trend is clear enough. Countries are increasingly ordering telecoms and other companies to block network access, shut down messaging services, or otherwise restrict digital applications or websites, usually citing public order or national-security concerns. In extreme cases, Internet access can be "blacked out” entirely.
Banning facial-recognition tools Is a mistake
(Bloomberg Opinion) --San Francisco, long a vanguard of digital enlightenment, has just made a regressive mistake. This week, it became the first major city to prohibit its police force and government agencies from using facial-recognition technology. Such a ban has an understandable appeal. Concerns about facial recognition are widespread among the public. In just a few years, the technology has advanced at a startling rate.
The world isn’t ready for the ‘Deep Fake’ revolution
Without precautions, ‘deep fakes,’ made with the help of artificial intelligence, could prove highly disruptive— to people and politics alike.Pondering a strange new technology, in 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: “The very things which an artist would leave out, or render imperfectly, the photograph takes infinite care with, and so makes its illusions perfect.” That’s becoming a bigger problem than he might’ve guessed.Illusions have long thrived on the internet, of course, from doctored...
Political campaigning in the age of social media - Tech News | The Star Online
When Facebook Inc admitted last week that an operation connected to Russia bought some US$100,000 (RM420,750) worth of advertising on its network during the 2016 campaign, it raised some unsettling questions about the intersection of social media and politics. Those questions – both broad and narrow – will only get more urgent as the next US election rolls around. The narrow question is whether current laws have been broken.
Why White-Collar Criminals Often Go Free: Chickenshit Club Review
I don’t know quite how to characterize The Chickenshit Club, by Jesse Eisinger. It’s an absorbing financial history, a monumental work of journalism, a not entirely persuasive polemic. It’s a first-rate study of the federal bureaucracy.
As ransomware attacks continue, so do NSA’s problems: opinion - Tech News | The Star Online
The effects of this month’s global ransomware attack seem to be fading, fortunately. But a crucial question the incident raised is only getting more urgent. When it comes to online security, the US government’s priorities – preventing terrorism and protecting cyberspace – are in permanent tension. Is there a way to resolve it? The National Security Agency routinely seeks out flaws in common software and builds tools, known as exploits, to take advantage of them.
GDP - Bloomberg QuickTake
The SituationGDP numbers influence economic and political debates worldwide.
Cybersecurity Should Not Be a Partisan Issue
(Bloomberg View) -- Of all the ugly incidents occasioned by the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, some of the most unsettling have unfolded invisibly -- specifically, online. In June, for example, it became clear that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked. Hillary Clinton’s campaign was likely attacked, too, along with a key Democratic political outfit. The attacks are being investigated, and the motivations behind them remain murky.
Timothy Lavin: Strange as it is, Clinton right to talk about aliens
Among the underappreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens. On the radio, in newspaper interviews, on late-night TV, she and her surrogates are vowing to "go into those files" and "get to the bottom of it."
Clinton still talks about aliens, and that’s good
Among the under-appreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens. On the radio, in newspaper interviews, on late-night TV, she and her surrogates are vowing to “go into those files” and “get to the bottom of it.” What she wants to get to the bottom of is Roswell, UFOs, Area 51 — you know, the whole thing. It’s a weird idea to campaign on. And no one is quite taking it seriously. (Almost no one, anyway.) But she’s right.
Bloomberg View Op-ed: Clinton still talks about aliens, and that's good
Among the underappreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens. On the radio, in newspaper interviews, on late-night TV, she and her surrogates are vowing to "go into those files" and "get to the bottom of it." What she wants to get to the bottom of is Roswell, UFOs, Area 51 — you know, the whole thing. It's a weird idea to campaign on. And no one is quite taking it seriously. (Almost no one, anyway.) But she's right.
Clinton Still Talks About Aliens, And That's Good
Among the underappreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens. On the radio, in newspaper interviews, on late-night TV, she and her surrogates are vowing to "go into those files" and "get to the bottom of it." What she wants to get to the bottom of is Roswell, UFOs, Area 51 -- you know, the whole thing.It's a weird idea to campaign on. And no one is quite taking it seriously. (Almost no one, anyway.) But she's right.
Clinton's Still Talking About Aliens. Good.
Among the underappreciated oddities of the 2016 election is that Hillary Clinton keeps talking about aliens.
Space Mining - Bloomberg QuickTake
The Situation In August 2015, the number of near-earth asteroids identified topped 13,000, with an average of three more being confirmed every day. The month before, a spacecraft built by Planetary Resources took off from the International Space Station on a mission to test the instruments and software needed for a robotic mining expedition. Many asteroids are rich in water and precious metals, notably platinum, a prime ingredient in everything from catalytic converters to cell phones.
Lavin: SpaceX continues to go boldly
From the ground, it didn't really look like an explosion. Standing at a press site about four miles from the launchpad, amid the rippling, crackling sound waves generated by the rocket's chemical propulsion - a disturbance so great it sent fish leaping from the river in front of us - all systems seemed to be go. There was a puff of white smoke overhead. A lengthy silence. And then a NASA rep on the PA, befuddlement in his voice, pronouncing what had happened a "non-nominal" event.
Space travel: Always pressing forward, always with risks
From the ground, it didn’t really look like an explosion. Standing at a press site about 4 miles from the launchpad, amid the rippling, crackling sound waves generated by the rocket’s chemical propulsion — a disturbance so great it sent fish leaping from the river in front of us — all systems seemed to be go. There was a puff of white smoke overhead. A lengthy silence. And then a NASA rep on the PA, befuddlement in his voice, pronouncing what had happened a “non-nominal” event.
Lavin: SpaceX knows the risks but will blast off again
From the ground, it didn't really look like an explosion. Standing at a press site about 4 miles from the launchpad, amid the rippling, crackling sound waves generated by the rocket's chemical propulsion — a disturbance so great it sent fish leaping from the river in front of us — all systems seemed to be go. There was a puff of white smoke overhead. A lengthy silence. And then a NASA rep on the PA, befuddlement in his voice, pronouncing what had happened a "non-nominal" event.
SpaceX Won't Give Up
From the ground, it didn't really look like an explosion. Standing at a press site about four miles from the launchpad, amid the rippling, crackling sound waves generated by the rocket's chemical propulsion -- a disturbance so great it sent fish leaping from the river in front of us -- all systems seemed to be go. There was a puff of white smoke overhead. A lengthy silence. And then a NASA rep on the PA, befuddlement in his voice, pronouncing what had happened a "non-nominal" event.
The Right to Be Forgotten
In the EU, Googling for most names now yields this notice: “Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe.” By Nov. 25, Google had received 174,226 requests to remove links, covering 602,479 Web pages. They included appeals from a doctor who received negative reviews, a man convicted of possessing images of child abuse and a former politician seeking re-election.
GDP - Bloomberg QuickTake
The Situation GDP numbers influence economic and political debates worldwide. In the U.S., investors are anxiously watching GDP reports for hints about when the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates. In China, the government’s preoccupation with GDP may be fueling financial and social instability. In Japan, shrinking GDP has been part of the prime minister’s case for economic shock therapy. Politicians tout GDP when things are going well and enlist it when they’re not.
How the NFL makes money from tax exemption
Every time the National Football League does something dumb, which is often, a lot of people call for Congress to revoke its tax exemption.
NFL Tax Exemption Is Classic Quarterback Sneak
Every time the National Football League does something dumb, which is often, a lot of people call for Congress to revoke its tax exemption. Pro football teams are for-profit companies that pay taxes, as the NFL likes to reiterate. But the league office itself is classified as a 501(c)(6) organization, along the lines of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You can argue about whether that exemption should apply to the NFL, but it quite specifically does.
Martha Stewart's Drone War
Martha Stewart -- media colossus, etiquette dogmatist and erstwhile market-timing prodigy -- has a drone now. And she'd like you to know all the totally non-felonious things normal people can do with these cool new gadgets. First, she took her drone to the beach, where she had a lot of fun "silently and surreptitiously photographing us and the landscape around us." The landscape of the beach has a lot of interesting things to secretly photograph.
The Right to Be Forgotten
In the EU, Googling for most names now yields this notice: “Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe.” By mid-July, more than 70,000 removal requests covering 250,000 Web pages had surged in to Google alone.
Bitcoin Jesus Doesn't Save
Roger Ver, a computer-parts and explosives impresario known as Bitcoin Jesus, has come up with a pretty Bitcoiny idea: Give him some Bitcoins and he'll set you up with a passport and citizenship in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, ostensibly free of income taxes, bad weather and meddlesome governments. Sounds great! Ask nothing, expect nothing, etc ... In reality, though, this isn't a very good idea for either government-hating types or aspiring tax avoiders.
3-D Printing - QuickTake
The technology behind 3-D printing was developed roughly 30 years ago by Chuck Hull, the founder of 3D Systems. The technique has long been used for rapid prototyping.
Why I hate pandas and you should too
Congratulations on your new panda cub, Washington! You’re prolonging the existence of a hopeless and wasteful species the world should’ve given up on long ago. I understand the impulse. Some people find them cute. Pandas don’t have much of a habitat left in the wild, thanks to heedless human development. And zoos imagine they’re doing the right thing, pulling in some extra visitors while helping conservation efforts.
Why I Hate Pandas and You Should Too
Congratulations on your new panda cub, Washington! You're prolonging the existence of a hopeless and wasteful species the world should've given up on long ago. I understand the impulse. Some people find them cute.
Why I Hate Pandas and You Should Too
The first test of a species' worthiness for conservation should be some instinct for self-preservation. And pandas fail objectively. This article is for subscribers only. Congratulations on your new panda cub, Washington! You're prolonging the existence of a hopeless and wasteful species the world should've given up on long ago. I understand the impulse. Some people find them cute. Pandas don't have much of a habitat left in the wild, thanks to heedless human development.
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