Issue #99! Thank you for following along for the two-ish years we’ve been sharing what passes for our reading list. I’ll maybe try to do something big for the next one of these—going back and finding predictions might be fun. Books I’m in the middle of Brian Enos Practical Shooting Beyond Fundamentals, and finding it […]
I’m a few weeks late in mentioning this, but Parvusimperator no longer works in the office next to me. He’s moved on to greener pastures; he requested I not say exactly where, but I will remark that you’d recognize the name. Defense Armenia loses – Azerbaijan’s ties to Turkey, with its F-16s and native drones, […]
If you’re the kind of person who looks at the URL bar, you might have noticed we went from a URL ending in 95 to one ending in 95-2 to one ending in 97. Getting real close to that centennial now. Defense 492nd Fighter Squadron has some fun with nose art for Halloween – Yes, […]
Disregard the calendar. For the next few minutes, it’s October 21. Defense Two weeks into the second Nagorno-Karabakh War – For some reason, I’m reminded of the repeated wars in the Balkans immediately prior to the Great War. Beretta Defense Systems gets the nod to manufacture the next-gen squad weapon – Go pasta gun guys! […]
Any thoughts on what we should do for the upcoming 100th edition of What We’re Reading? WuFlu Is SARS-CoV-2 a product of gain-of-function research? – Gain-of-function research being the head-scratching idea that it’s somehow wise or worthwhile to turn viruses which can’t infect humans into viruses which can, to, I dunno, see if it can […]
While drafting these, I keep on forgetting I’ve already shared match videos, and have to go dig them out later. Oops. Defense The new British carriers have always looked a bit fat to me – They may not be true carriers with catapults and arresting gear, but having two of them does count for something. […]
If I call it ‘Weekly What We’re Reading’, maybe I won’t have to feel so bad about missing Wednesdays. Coronavirus Why aren’t we talking more about ventilation? – Your correspondent has been banging the ‘malaria in the literal sense’ drum with increasing intensity over the past few weeks. Cuomo to wealthy New Yorkers: “Come back […]
There’s an exercise that exists to get one to challenge one’s own assumptions by imposing a very difficult condition on a problem so one sees what tradeoffs come out. Let’s play with an example. Inspired by the interview with former General der Panzertruppe Hermann Balck, let’s give this sort of problem a try. The criteria […]
Missed a Wednesday again. Oops. Books Celestial Matters, a science fiction novel where the science is that of ancient Greece. China Watch Three Gorges Dam under rapidly-mounting flood pressure, again – And more rain is coming. Is there much danger of a collapse? On the one hand, I don’t think so. On the other hand, […]
Another two-week gap, and this time, I’m writing it on Tuesday night so I don’t run out of time tomorrow. WuFlu Is it spread by large respiratory droplets or aerosols? – Ars Technica reviews the evidence, and answers in correspondence with the best scientific evidence available right now: a big fat shrug. Some areas of […]