The Point is a web-based talk show on the Young Turks YouTube channel where various issues are discussed by panelists. They have people send in short videos making some salient point, then panelists discuss it. Cara Santa Maria -- the senior science correspondent at The Huffington Post -- guest-hosted the show this last week, and asked me to send in a video for discussion. I talked about asteroid mining, which started an interesting discussion.
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For more information about asteroid mining and Planetary Resources, you can read my recent post about them
. The video embedded above is set to start at my segment, but I'll note that my friend Chris Mooney was the first video they discussed, talking his new book "The Republican Brain"
. Chris is always careful when he discusses this topic, knowing it will be misinterpreted willfully or otherwise, which of course it has been. ...
