Effectiveness: The Kranz Dictum
After the early space failures, NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz issued an important directive to all staff:
Demographics: Country becoming “red” due to fertility rates
Given this trend, if it continues, the country seems poised to become more conservative/Republican and less progressive/Democrat.
Public health: Which animals get H5N1? Nearly all of them
Hundreds of species have gotten H5N1.
Public health, Disinformation: Covid vaccinated cannot give infection to others
Remember when the head of the CDC said vaccinated individuals cannot transmit Covid to anyone else?
Education: Harvard tuition now free to families with <$200k income
Harvard, as with many other schools, announces free tuition to families with
Climate: Must ban social media – the carbon costs of social media
At 1+/- grams of CO2 per minute of social media use, we need to consider banning social media.
Economy: Work force gender imbalances
70-90% of workers in numerous fields are women. Yet the media only cares about gender balance in computer science. Why is that?
EVs: Failure of government to build out EV charging network
In November 2021, the Federal government authorized billions to build out an EV charging network. As of March 2025, just 60 stations have been built.