"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by liberal japonicus Another ever so slightly focussed open thread, this time on standards, prompted by this article from Nature.The opening paragraph In a strip published in 2011, cartoonist Randall Munroe pokes fun at people’s inability to develop a universal standard for, say, electrical outlets, printer-paper dimensions or TV remote-control signals. From 14 competing standards … Read more
by liberal japonicus From the Guardian The ousting of McCarthy represented the first time in US history that a speaker of the House has been removed from office, marking an ignominious end to a short and fraught tenure for the California Republican. It comes as Americans’ approval ratings of Congress and the federal government remain … Read more
by wj (Went to make an Open Thread type post and noticed how long since we had one. So here is some new place to babble/burble.) I have been reading the stories about the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Specifically about how Penn deemed Katalin Karikó's work of such low quality that it kicked her off … Read more