* “Children could die and go blind because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism.” The legacy “environmental” organizations have now become antithetical not only to environmental improvements, but to human flourishing!

* This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It.

* How to teach a two-year old to read.

* Are flying cars finally here? (NY’er, $, but also detailed and not just more of the same.)

* On the need to pay teachers for performance, not based on seniority. I expect that the spread of micro schools, vouchers, and charter schools to push schools towards pay-for-performance, rather than pay-for-not-performance.

* “Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing.” There can be an amazingly long time between bad decisions being made and the results of those bad decisions being widely seen, felt, and acknowledged.

* Zoning out American families. When you see articles about the falling birth rate, connect them to the articles about restrictions on housing construction. We raise the cost of housing and then are somehow surprised when people can’t afford kids. The boomers whose votes foreclosed the construction of new housing are now paying for that in part through no or few grandkids. Scarcity policies are ultimately self-defeating, but hardly anyone thinks this way.

* On actually reading the book, which most people don’t do. Most people don’t read for comprehension, either.

* “For most people, politics is about fitting in.” Notice how rarely people are motivated by ideas, or even consistency. Most people can’t recall what they argued or said they believed a few years ago.

* Weak argument that some college students are abandoning Ivy-League-type schools. Still, things are the same—business-as-usual—until they’re not. Similarly, see “Normal Kids Get F*cked: Elite universities went to war against fraternities and fun while indulging Hamas-admiring collectives, and the students have noticed.” Not the headline I’d have chosen, but the selective enforcement of rules and principles is notable. I have a half-written rant about how it’s impossible to write satires of academia, and it has been for years, but I’m not sure it’s worth finishing or posting, due to obviousness.