Read it. Especially liked the bit about Vasili Arkhipov.
Month October 2012
I had hope not to touch on this subject, since it always provokes some very tedious responses, but since my…
Was poking around on youtube and found the following: Worth watching, and remembering what “nuclear proliferation” ultimately means. There is…
The second Atlas Shrugged film is out today, though nowhere near me. According to some of my comrades, it’s considerably…
Five debates involving Nobel Laureates. Why are you lot still hanging around here? Go and watch.
Savages, barbarians, plain and simple. This is the sort of thing that calls out my inner Saint Just. The…
The late great Hitch used to like the following anecdote. When a spokesman for the teamsters union was asked, “Wouldn’t…
Never, ever say that there’s nothing you can do or that the struggle is too hard. 14 year old Malala Yousufza…
The Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has been announced. John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamana have been awarded the…
Worth the read. Efficient solar cells, private space travel, affordable gene sequencing… The future is closer than we think.