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Ebola and Wolves
What bothers me about the current flap over Ebola quarantines is the "boy who cried wolf" effect. Basically, imposing clearly unnecessary quarantines risks setting a trend where people ignore all quarantines, needed or not.
Rockets
This article appeared the day before SpaceShip Two blew up. It's very prescient writing. Apollo, Ansari and the Hobbling Effects of Giant Leaps. As I said on Facebook, unfortunately building rockets is rocket science.
Plus, A Cool Video
I couldn't embed this, but go watch this video of scientists dropping a bowling ball and a feather in vacuum.
What bothers me about the current flap over Ebola quarantines is the "boy who cried wolf" effect. Basically, imposing clearly unnecessary quarantines risks setting a trend where people ignore all quarantines, needed or not.
Rockets
This article appeared the day before SpaceShip Two blew up. It's very prescient writing. Apollo, Ansari and the Hobbling Effects of Giant Leaps. As I said on Facebook, unfortunately building rockets is rocket science.
Plus, A Cool Video
I couldn't embed this, but go watch this video of scientists dropping a bowling ball and a feather in vacuum.
