Space Scientist Says AI Essential For Successful Moon & Mars Missions

Written by Larry Bell

Beyond authoring lots of books and articles about a great variety of other topics, most of my real day job as founding professor at the University of Houston‘s Sasakawa International Center of Space Architecture is spent figuring out and teaching ways to deliver humans to the Moon and Mars, house and support them on the surfaces, and safely return them

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Why Britain Switches Off Its Wind Farms

Written by Richard Lyon

Below is part one of a weekly series taking the UK’s energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. We begin with the strangest of them: the money we pay wind farms to stop generating.

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How Did Our Ancestors Eat Calories?

Written by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

America has achieved a strange biological success. We made calories cheap, portable, shelf-stable, intensely flavored, and available everywhere. Then we built public nutrition around the one number that made that achievement look neutral

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