Tuesday Links - 31 October

Mike Rowe starts us off with a story about the decency of some people. Tall Cowboy

There’s a place in Casper, WY called The Silver Fox, where they tie bacon into knots and put them in Bloody Mary’s. This is an excellent idea and should be replicated far and wide. I had dinner there last night, but didn’t pay for it because one of the diners picked up my tab.

SiGraybeard - NASA's Next Flying Instrument in Space Might Be Very Different

Thanks to Space.com, I've come across a "next generation" flying drone, called Dragonfly, being worked on for a future mission to Saturn's moon Titan that might be flying in the not too distant future. It's very different from Ingenuity [the Mars helicopter].

The Other McCain - Maine Manhunt Ends as Authorities Find Body of Lewiston Massacre Gunman

It turns out that the Internet sleuths had it wrong — the divorced Maine sex offender is Robert W. Card, not Robert R. Card II, but that’s the kind of mistake that often happens in such situations. So my warning about the “fog of war” factor was vindicated.

Gun Free Zone - The J.Kb Dept of Ed

This is a university grader and a teacher saying how they teach 2+2=5, and I’m mentally ill and defective because I refuse to accept their untruth as reality.

Massad Ayoob - THE EVIL PRINCESS STRIKES AGAIN

So, there I was with my lovely bride, the Evil Princess of Podcasts, Pixels and Polymer Pistols, at a hotel where I was teaching a MAG-40 class. The sciatica was really on me, and I was walking like ...

Meep at Stump - The Week in Meep, 28 Oct 2023: Newsweek, St. Jude, Tennis Balls, and CHUD. Click thru and scroll down for the graph, and what may be the only good news you see this week.

So I don’t want to steal their thunder, but there is a bit about Danny Thomas and his founding of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: [SNIP]

As you may know, the primary focus of research of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is pediatric cancer. It was founded in 1962, and my data from CDC WONDER goes back only to 1968, but check this out

The College Fix is first with the latest Woke attack on academic reality. Pittsburgh public schools to ponder racism ’embedded’ in its math curriculum

According to The Center Square, the board decided on October 25 to shell out $50,000 to Quetzal Education Consulting, which claims it readies teachers “to identify, disrupt, and replace white supremacy culture practices in math instruction with practices that center the wellness of students of color.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 30 October 2023: In The Pool Edition. (Potential future - far future - applications in surgery.)

Small Hadron Collider: Scientists have for the first time fired up the world's tiniest particle accelerator. (Space)

While early accelerators were much much smaller than today's giants like the Large Hadron Collider - which is an underground ring five miles across - this new device, called a nanophotonic electron accelerator, or NEA, reverses the trend entirely.