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We're a day and a half late with this episode, but better late than never. It's just Steve and Lucretia this week—John Yoo will be back for the next one—and they spend the first half of the episode updating some of last week's main stories while noting that instead of dying down, they have intensified. The Luigi Mangione Fangirl Murder Mob has extended its tender mercies to Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts wife who (allegedly) strangled her three children apparently—to listen to her demented sympathizers—in anticipation of what may become Fourth Wave Feminism. No, we're not making this up!
The Jason Arday story continues to have legs, and some strange new permutations, one of which directly includes Lucretia and a strangely self-referential article in the Comical of Higher Education. This resolves into a discussion of what else the Trump Administration and the Republican Congress ought to be doing to force our East German universities into serious reform, and not just renaming their DEI operations and other evasions of the campus rot. (We also have positively identified who will replace Arday at Cambridge, and it's a familiar name.)
After a brief intermission, we take up what may turn out to be the central legacy of J.D. Vance, and think other leaders ought to pay more attention to his latest core message. And then we visit one of Ronald Reagan's supposed most egregious gaffes—that "trees cause pollution"—in light of some new mainstream science findings that the Gipper was right after all.
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John's probably touring the factory where McRib meat is made . . .
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I highly recommend this to everyone.
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I'm getting to this episode late, but I'm heartened to hear the MORE CLEAN AIR ACT CONTENT!!
For the record, all life, at least above bacteria, depends on burning glucose to provide energy:
C6H12O6 + 6 O2 -> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O
There's enough glucose around to do this because plants make the stuff (in the chloroplasts through photosynthesis).
6 CO2 + 6 H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6 O2
The reactions are the reverse; burning glucose produces energy, and photosynthesis uses energy (in the form of sunlight) to store up glucose. The natural question here (one you've got past "Why doesn't Ricochet provide for subscripts?") is "Wait, that's the same thing in reverse. Do the plants produce enough glucose so that this whole exercise gets us anywhere?" The answer is "Yes", which we know because we see plants. Without getting into the difference between glucose and cellulose (surprisingly little, for all that corn kernels taste better than corn cobs) all the machinery to make more plants depends on breaking down glucose. So they've got to produce more and more of it to keep making more plants.
None of which has much at all to do with the story presented. Insofar as plants produce ozone they didn't tell me about that at the low level of biology I studied.
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