So if you had a solar panel and one of these refrigerator-sized machines, you can make yourself some gasoline right out of the air.

How many of you believe that that works? And if it does work, may I add to your concern? Because you're going to say, "Oh no, it's going to ruin all vegetation on Earth."

Oh, okay. I have to admit my back is absolutely killing me today. So I'm going to be in a non-standard podcasting position. Oh, that's so much better. So you might not be able to see me or hear me, but I'll be here. Oh my god, that's much better. I think I slept on it wrong.

Well, RFK Jr. is threatening to ban scientists, government scientists, from publishing in top journals. Do you know why he doesn't want scientists, at least government scientists, to publish in The Lancet and some of these other top journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA? It's because they're corrupt. So he says, quote, "We're probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt." Meaning that they've got too much big pharma influence.

Now, can you even hold that in your head? That RFK Jr., he's the US health secretary, and he's just said that the major scientific journals in his field are so corrupt that he's not even going to let people submit papers to them. Holy cow. I don't think there's another person in the world who would have said this or done this, but I think he's right. I think he's right.

Meanwhile, according to Fox News, the president of Harvard was giving an address and he admitted that they're not doing enough to have conservatives on campus and they don't have enough voices that are diverse. And he said that some faculty members said to think twice before teaching controversial subjects. And he says the lack of conservatives on the Ivy League campuses is because of something about expressing unpopular views, and now he thinks they need more conservative voices.

Now, is that what you think? Here's the problem. His name is Garber, Alan Garber. So he said, "The administration and others have said conservatives are too few on campus and their views are not welcome. Insofar as that's true," he's acting like maybe it's not true, "insofar as that's true, that's a problem that we really need to address."

Now, how are you going to address it? If you're the kind of entity that has decided that conservatives are basically Hitler, how do you go from "Oh, Republicans are Hitler" to "You know, we need more Hitlers? It would be great if we had like 30% Hitlers. That'd be just the right amount." I don't know. I feel like they've painted themselves in a corner and it wouldn't matter how much they want to have more conservatives. The conservatives aren't going to get near it and the other faculty would think they were hiring Hitlers and they would all quit. So they might not have a path.

Meanwhile in San Francisco the school system came up with what they called an equity grading system. New York Post is reporting on this and the San Francisco officials got rid of it in one day. So the idea was to make it easier for people who weren't doing well in school to also get good grades. And what they were going to do is they were going to not grade them on homework even if they skipped it, not grade them on attendance if they cut class, and they could retake their final exam, which is the only thing that would count toward their grade. Well, it took 24 hours for the collective powers to say, "Nope. Nope. Let's get rid of that." So that's gone. I don't think that would have been gone in 24 hours before Trump. So we're gonna call that the Trump effect.

Speaking of the Trump effect, The Post Millennial says that GM has decided to invest $888 million into a big factory near Buffalo, New York. So more than they were planning to do. Is that the Trump effect? Or do you think maybe that would have been somewhere else? I don't know. I'm going to call it the Trump effect.

Here's something that sounds like a little nerdy story, but probably is immensely important. So MIT has announced this initiative for new manufacturing according to MIT News. So it's an institute-wide effort aiming to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors. If you take the jargon out of it, what it really means is that MIT is going to be like DOGE for manufacturing. Not so much in cutting costs, although they might do that too, but rather looking at it from the bottom up and saying, "All right, instead of just rebuilding the old kind of manufacturing that we always did, because that's the only thing we know how to do, the geniuses at MIT are gonna help, I guess, help industry design manufacturing." That makes sense.

Now, I assume it's stuff like using AI and probably whole new systems that have never been used before and 3D printing and robots and whatever else. But the only way the US is going to become a manufacturing power again with a good kind of manufacturing, you know, not the low-end kind, is this. So you know, DOGE really can't be underestimated because although this is not DOGE and has nothing to do with DOGE, it just feels like it wouldn't happen unless DOGE had sort of set the standard that if you unleash your geniuses in this domain, it doesn't take long for them to fix everything. So this is a small story that I think could be one of the biggest stories in the country if things go right.

So MIT is not like other places. The MIT students, they're all like big balls basically.

Well, according to Futurism, some economists did a study to find out how much AI is saving companies because companies are adopting AI like crazy. They just can't get enough of it. So apparently white collar workers are just racing to get more AI and it looks like they saved basically nothing. They analyzed 25,000 workers and the only productivity gains were 3 to 7% productivity gains and none of them translated into bigger paychecks or anything. So it looks like AI has met Dilbert. You know, Dilbert is sort of the stand-in for the bureaucracy and doing everything wrong. Apparently you can't just take a bunch of people who were a certain way and just layer AI on top of them. You can't take Dilbert. Well, you can take Dilbert, but you can't take Wally and then add AI to Wally and then suddenly he's a productive employee. He's still Wally. Still Wally.

So although I do