I think Siegel's articles are great. It's tough to explain cosmology without math.

The dispute about Penrose's idea is just a typical scientific dispute. It will be a footnote--at best--in textbooks a couple of decades from now.

Signs of planet forming around nascent star upends understanding of world creation timelines
and parturition

response rates to date, with 2 wks remaining of the court-ordered extension.

Whoever did not want to be found most certainly will not be counted. They will be estimated as is the custom. Bank on it.

Supreme Court tees up census case over whether Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants

The court's announcement teed up oral arguments in the case for Nov. 30, an ACCELERATED timeline that paves the way for a potential decision before the Census Bureau is set to deliver the population counts to Trump's desk at the end of the year.

mmm, while the DNC Axes of Assets agitated to extend census collection to 31 Oct, congress failed to modify the statutory reporting deadline, which Census Bureau requested last summer, to April 2021.

Trump v New York

WHAT WAS THE QUESTION?
(1) Whether a group of states and local governments have standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge a July 21, 2020, memorandum by President Donald Trump instructing the secretary of commerce to include in his report on the 2020 census information enabling the president to exclude ["]noncitizens["] from the base population number for purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives;
and (2) whether the memorandum is a permissible exercise of the president's discretion under the provisions of law governing congressional apportionment.

NO, NO, LOL. btw, For all the agita forthcoming the 9th associate justice, don't expect an opinion before 2 Jan 2021 or even 30 Jan--allowing a new admin DOJ to moot the petition and decision.

The 'shocking' impact of COVID-19: Americans, young and old, have lost 2.5 million years of life, Harvard researcher says

Census takers fall short of target goal in areas of US

There are also concerns about the quality of the data obtained.
[...]
Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham said Monday that a first look at the data collection operation indicates "an extremely successful execution." He noted that the 67% self-response rate this year was higher than the 66.5% reached during the [NO CITIZENSHIP Q] 2010 census.
[...]
Civil rights groups and others are pushing [BWAH!] Congress to extend the bureau's deadline for turning in apportionment numbers for congressional seats from Dec. 31 to the end of next April.

thwarted by disasters of BIBLICAL PROPORTION amicus briefs developing ...