Spotted Toad on issues with public school segregation.
I'm like three months behind on Slate Star Codex, but the post on futurism was worth making an exception for.
The LessWrong 2.0 project is making progress. I'd love to follow along but I haven't really had the time for that.
An Anglospheric Union inches towards reality as the United Kingdom considers joining NAFTA. The Canadians have an even more audacious suggestion.
Speaking of international partnerships, the Europeans are interested in joining the Deep Space Gateway project.
Exciting space news: astronomers now believe object A/2017 U1 is interstellar in origin. Specifically, the object has an observed orbital eccentricity ~1.2, indicating a hyperbolic trajectory not bound to Sol. This obviously limits the amount of observational time, so we're not likely to learn a whole lot from the encounter. Universe Today article, NASA press release.
Old space news I just found out about: Lockheed Martin's Mars Base Camp proposal.
Coding challenge: build Tetris in Conway's Game of Life.
It's not really the right time of year for those commencement speech blog posts, but here's one anyway. Nonetheless appropriate as I apply for jobs and grad school.
