Dr. John Day, author of The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, writes that patients ask him everyday what their resting heart rate should be. He explains on his site: What should your resting heart rate be? This is a question I am asked everyday as a cardiologist. Can your resting heart rate, also […]
The Godzilla of Submarine Cables
Data hungry tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are laying their own submarine cables in order to keep up with an explosion of demand. TeleGeography, a market research firm, predicts that $9.2bn will be spent on these cable projects between 2016-2018. It is estimated that Google alone needs to double its transmission capacity every […]
Jon Basil Utley Guides Thinking on America’s Proper Defense Planning
My friend Jon Basil Utley, who I have known since we met years ago at functions hosted by the Cato Institute, took time recently on The American Conservative website to address some disturbing events in the world of foreign policy. Jon discusses a conference on terrorism held by the Jamestown Foundation. At the conference, Gen. […]
Predictions Are Hard–Especially about the Future
Last October, NOAA, what Francis Menton calls our national weather bureaucracy, came out with the prediction as to the severity of the upcoming winter. According to Eric Niler at Wired, seasonal predictions rely on models using the same theories of “heat trapping” greenhouse gases as are used for the longer-term models. What was the prediction? […]
Winter Olympics: How Good is Michaela Shiffrin?
How good is skier Michaela Shiffrin? “I think she’s maybe the best ski racer I’ve ever seen, male or female,” two-time World Cup champion Bode Miller told reporters. Over the weekend the 22-year old claimed her 39th and 40th World Cup wins. The time it took for Shiffrin to reach her 39th win compared to […]
Did the NSA Know about Spectre and Meltdown?
White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce, who formerly worked at the NSA, has said the agency had no knowledge of the Spectre or Meltdown vulnerabilities in Intel processors that came to light last week. Andy Greenberg reports in WIRED: On Friday, White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce, a former senior NSA official, told The Washington Post that the […]
Obama vs Trump: The Great Experiment
With each incoming administration, the deck chairs change, but usually the ship sails on course. New administrations have been unlikely to completely overturn their predecessors’ policies–until now. “We’ve gone from hard left, under Obama, to hard right, under Trump,” Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers of NRO. Whatever Donald J. Trump’s political past and vociferous present, […]
Belichick, Brady, Kraft — Patriots Serious Disagreements
Bill Belichick (coach), Tom Brady (quarterback) and Robert Kraft (owner) differ on Brady’s trainer, body coach, business partner Alex Guerrero. According to Seth Wickersham at ESPN: THE CRACKS FIRST revealed themselves in early September. The season had just started, and Guerrero was once again becoming an issue in the Patriots’ building, just weeks before the release […]
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
One of my takeaways from the book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, is Musk’s ability to stay focused on his long-term goal of putting humans on Mars. At his rocket company, SpaceX, there was some grumbling from employees about when the company would file for an […]
The Cotton Doctrine Will Give America More War and Less Security Says Cato’s Chris Preble
My friend Chris Preble, the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, and author of The Power Problem, has written that Senator Tom Cotton’s foreign policy doctrine includes more of the war that has defined the twenty-first century for America. Implementing such a policy though, says Chris, would mean less security […]
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