The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 85)

Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition

There will be no Redneck Intellectual next week and possibly not for a couple of weeks. I have three trips planned in the next two weeks and several major work commitments that must take priority. I’m hoping to be back in two or three weeks with a new essay for my ongoing series on the philosophic battle between between the proponents of self-interest and self-sacrifice. The tentative title for the next essay will be something like “The Death of God and the Birth of Socialism.”

THE GOOD

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Coffee’s delicious journey from tiny bean to tasty brew.

WE NEED A LOT MORE OF THIS KIND OF THNG: American scientists discover game-changing weapon against China’s economic warfare

I’M IMPRESSED AND IT TAKES A LOT TO IMPRESS ME: Croatian Freediver Shatters Record For Longest-Held Breath. “On June 14 of this year, Vitomir Maričić took one last gulp of pure oxygen and lay down in a pool. There he remained, cool as a sea cucumber, for 29 minutes and 3 seconds.”

SOCIETY, HEAL THYSELF: Divorce Rate Down 36% Since 1980 Peak

MEDICINE/HEALTH ROUND-UP

• Exercise Can Help Fight Breast Cancer, Experiments Show.

• New cancer vaccine shows ‘exciting’ results as patients remain disease-free

• Could Glucose Be the Key to Next-Generation Cancer Treatments?

• Can vitamin D supplements really slow aging, as a recent study suggests?

• Muscle Cramps Have a Surprise Cause We Never Realized, Study Suggests.

CONGRATULATIONS: 3 scientists win Nobel in chemistry for work in molecular architecture.

TO NOT WIN WOULD BE A DISASTER: Finding the energy to win the global AI race

WOW: ‘Liquid Uranium Rocket Cuts Mars Trip to 6 Months’: Ohio State Scientists Achieve 1,800-Second Nuclear Engine Performance.

DO YOU FOLLOW SCIENCE OR IDEOLOGY? Blockbuster sea level study may turn climate change orthodoxy on its head.

NEVER FOR A SECOND DID I THINK THAT PEOPLE REACH THEIR PEAK IN THEIR LATE TWENTIES AND EARLY THIRTIES: Study Reveals The Surprising Age at Which Your Brain Reaches Its Peak.

ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY ROUND-UP

• Archaeologists find ‘vile’ dungeon site hiding beneath city’s market square

• Humans evolved fastest among the apes, 3D skull study shows.

• After 2,100 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Head of an Ancient Greek Statue.

• A 10-Year-Old Girl Went for a Walk on the Beach—and Stumbled Upon 5 Dinosaur Footprints.

THE GREAT AWAKENING: Record 62% Say Federal Government Is Too Powerful: Gallup

GET MARRIED AND HAVE BABIES. Pretty simple formula unless the government screws it up, and the government has screwed up retirement in a big way, which in turn disincentivizes young people from starting families: Want more babies? Then reform the pensions system.

THE DISORDER THAT HAS BEEN IN THE UNIVERSE IS RIGHTING ITSELF: This might be a bit premature but, “The Great Reclamation” is underway.

WHO IS JOHN GALT? (As true today as when it was written.) “Get the hell out of my way!“

CHANGE: ‘The world is waking up’: Surveys show trans identification in ‘free-fall’ among young people

SCIENCE ROUND-UP

• Scientists prepare for the next Carrington Event: ‘Should such an event occur, there are no good solutions.’

• What’s Glowing at the Center of Our Galaxy? New Study Points to Dark Matter.

• The Universe ‘Will End in a Big Crunch,’ Physicists Warns.

• Physicists Have Mathematically Proven the Universe Is Not a Simulation.

LONG OVERDUE: First liquid-fueled reactor in America: US firm readies to deploy Gen IV reactor by 2026.

THE ASTRONOMERS NEED BETTER SUNGLASSES: Astronomers discover 2nd fastest asteroid in the solar system hiding in the sun’s glare. On the other hand: Solar-Powered Eye Implant Restores Reading Vision.

THE BAD

IMPORTANT, MUST READ FROM HELEN ANDREWS: The Great Feminization.

WHEN EVERYONE IS A FASCIST, NO ONE IS A FASCIST:

• Now Even Stay-At-Home Moms are Fascist.

• The Left Won’t Give Up “Fascism” Charge, Expands Definition.

WOW! The state of American culture is not good. I would very much like to see the manifesto: Man With 200 Explosives And Leftist Manifesto Arrested Outside Supreme Court Event At Church: Police

ARE YA HAVIN’ A LAUGH YET? Antifa Thinks They Are The True Americans.

PERFORMATIVE COSPLAYTRIOT: SHOULD BE GIVEN $$$$ TO “STUDY” REPARATIONS:

THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF DONALD TRUMP HAD NOT TALKED ABOUT CANADA AS THE 51^ST STATE: Totalitarian Canada’s Bill to cut off the internet to dissenters.

AT THIS POINT, WHY THE HELL NOT? Ohio legislature introduces law to ban people from marrying AI.

CHINA WATCH:

• Beijing’s Military Diplomacy Is Making Major Gains.

• Foreign Investors Trapped in China’s Real Estate Meltdown as $140 Billion Bet Unravels Further.

• China Is Making a Big Move In Our Own Backyard — But No One Is Talking About It。

• Top analyst says China is playing a ‘key role’ in the price of gold going through the roof, and he’s got the data to prove it.

• Trump was right about China’s threat, now a new danger lurks in American hospitals

UK WATCH:

• Suicides in Starmer’s sea of despair.

• We haven’t room for a new Sheffield every year.

• Think Before You Post | How the UK fell to a sinister new form of censorship | FULL DOCUMENTARY VIDEO.

• Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0smxO4WiOA

ON ROOTEDNESS: Call us England or Britain – but never UK!

CANADA WATCH:

• Is Canada Becoming the Center of Organ Harvesting Tourism?

• Toronto School In Hot Water For Playing Arabic Version Of ‘O Canada’

• Oh Canada! Your Government Took Your Guns, Now Your Homes. Get It, Yet?

• Canada spearheads the global death cult.

• When a Tribe Whose Great Great Great Grandparents Once Fished There Now Owns Your Property.

END THE GRIFT: The Paris climate agreement has utterly failed – why keep up the pretense?

IT’S COME TO THIS! Should We Vacation at Port-au-Prince or Chicago?

FIRST THE SEX ABUSE SETTLEMENTS, THEN THE FIRES, AND NOW MORE MASSIVE SEX ABUSE SETTLEMENTS. How does Los Angeles survive this financially? LA County On The Hook For Another $828M In New Sex-Abuse Settlement

WHO’S GOING TO TELL HER? har·em| ˈherəm | noun (in former times) the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants. Chelsea Clinton Lectures Trump on the ‘People’s House’ and Trips Over Her Own Parents Instead.

THEY TOLD US WE SHOULD “LEARN TO CODE” WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE TOLD US TO BECOME ELECTRICIANS AND PLUMBERS. I also predict a rise in pest control jobs: AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals.

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS? When the “Right To Die” becomes the “Duty To Die”.