Links for 2021-09-15
❝Everyone should absorb that the fusion age is upon us. The target for net-energy-out fusion is now four years; not 30.❞ https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/571722-fusion-breakthrough-dawns-a-new-era-for-us-energy-and-industry (See also: “Humanity is on the cusp of practically limitless energy via nuclear fusion and basically nobody is talking about it, which is nuts. I left working in fusion because I was skeptical of the field's ability to progress, but my mind has totally changed” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1417187120641462274.html)
Watch Tesla’s Self-Driving Car Learn In a Simulation! youtube.com/watch?v=6hkiTejoyms
The Swedish steel company HYBRIT produced the world's first batch of carbon-free steel. https://gizmodo.com/behold-carbon-free-steel-now-exists-1847524486
The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once — "If buildings are allowing respiratory viruses to spread by air, we should be able to redesign buildings to prevent that. We just have to reimagine how air flows through all the places we work, learn, play, and breathe." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/coronavirus-pandemic-ventilation-rethinking-air/620000/
"This man, along with his tribe, believed the sun is a jewel vomited by a dragon each morning and then swallowed by that same dragon again on the other side of the world each night after the dragon has rushed under the...earth all day to catch it. " razib.substack.com/p/among-afghans-jewel-of-the-dragon
One consequence of the surge of women and dearth of men going to Uni is a mating crisis among educated women https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747
Degrowth is practically impossible, politically impossible, morally untenable, and environmentally unnecessary. noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realizing-that-degrowth
Largest GWAS (N=1,126,563) of Alzheimer’s Disease Implicates Microglia and Immune Cells https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.20.20235275v1.full
The Left’s science denial https://unherd.com/2021/09/the-lefts-science-denial/
Top general was so fearful Trump might spark war that he made secret calls to his Chinese counterpart, new book says: “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise...democracy can be sloppy sometimes.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/14/peril-woodward-costa-trump-milley-china/
Vietnamese love the US, and China cannot change that: “An analysis of public sentiment online showed that attempts to link the American withdrawal from Afghanistan to the Fall-of-Saigon had barely surfaced in discussions in Vietnam’s cyberspace, much less in its state-controlled media during Harris’ visit.” https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Vietnamese-love-the-US-and-China-cannot-change-that