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I'm going to a concert in London this evening (Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion), so an posting this weeks roundup earlier than usual. There probably won't be a quick links next week as I'm going to Lille Saturday and Sunday. That said, here are article that caught my eye this past 7 days.

Planes: F-15EX Breaks The Right Records At The Right Time. The benefit of continuous production is that you can updte effective designs and replace worn out inventory with out breaking the bugjet developing new designs. Repleated, plane/chopper hybrids: Batshit exciting combat aircraft concepts of the Cold War

As a former expat in Japan, I'd agree: The Benefits of Cultural Appropriation

Why indeed? Why would anyone envy the NHS? Burn it down, salt the ashes and burn them again. Releated, The forgotten Tory blueprint for the NHS Everyone forgets that Beveridge was a Liberal and his report recommened a very different nmodel to the Bennite one introduced (He wouldn't have nationalised the voluntary hospitals for one). Releated, Why do we keep getting NHS reform wrong?

Envrionmental news: A Critical Examination of the Six Pillars of Climate Change Despair On the same topic, elite overproduction has a lot to answer for: Climate Activism Isn't About the Planet. It's About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie

The case for plastic, beyoond annoying the greens: Plastic fantastic

When everything is racist, nothing is: Astrophysicist says her field is "steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy" 

Questions we can answer: Why are-our top Universities the most woke? Because thats where these ideas come from, and Uni's are a bubble semi-detached from society. Releated, it already has: How the wokeness it pushes could destroy higher education 

The cake is a lie  not allowed: Cake is the new secondhand smoke

More on ChatGTP: ChatGPT in Schools

Agains the HRification of History

Video of the week: Konstantin Kisin at the Oxford Union


And finally, image of the week:



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