Wait, they can fire cabinet members for drinking on the job?

I was a program officer there ten years ago. This is a slow motion disaster for the US. Call you senators and representatives and tell them to restore funding and appoint a distinguished and politically tough scientist as the director, not a corporate type.

There is usually a lot of free swag at STEM conventions. They likely assume your book is in that category.

No matter what position you start to approach the world’s problems from or the path you take, this is where you end up.

Perhaps historians looking back will see this as the beginning of the war.

Got mine about 3 years ago now. I love the flat torque curve of the electric motors which gives me so much more control over the car's speed and handling.

So sorry you had to leave. Science is unnecessarily hard these days.

It seems like people still like science despite the current administration's attempt to kill funding for it.

I think the rewiring is the point…

Thanks Trump. My college student daughter is trying to file her (very simple) Federal taxes and TurboTax wants $172. What a scam! Enshittification of everything.

Great way to make sure only rich people can afford to serve.

One of my friends characterizes academia as a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie.

No.

I live about an hour's drive from Costco, and having a built in ice chest in my car is perfect for getting perishables and frozen food home!

What is the one most practical action ordinary citizens can take to reverse wealth inequity?

It may be a bit irresponsible to claim victory quite yet. Don’t push the news cycle to move on.

Then we could use the “gigahamster” as a unit of measurement.

Is your .stl file downloadable?

An excerpt from Science: “Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce...represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in STEM or health.” Hollowing out our economic future.

Give Judd Legum credit, he is doing good work…

I liked that movie so much more than I thought I would.

four panel cartoon of fears trying to talk the hero into giving up

I saved this from a post I saw once. It seems appropriate today.

Do you think he has the personality to sit this out?

Of course when the staff comes to make up my hotel room I am stuck in until the storm blows over that is when Spotify chooses to play Super Freak.

Same here.

This may be the best thing I have ever read about AI!

He has advanced Vladimir Putin’s agenda for the US exponentially further than any other president.

It all depends on how you define profit. I grew up in the Canal Zone and the Panama Canal Company did not generate much in the way of profits and was operated to break even. Now if you're talking about investing in global infrastructure to support trade, that is a whole other thing...

Aren’t you in the senate? I like you and your policies, but we want action not rhetoric.

Donella Meadows is required reading in the engineering design courses I teach. We also teach Cynefin.