Physicists are once again trying to use the LHC to accidentally destroy the world : The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a “mini-Big Bang” by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border . . . . Continue Reading »
In Who’s Sorry Now? , Elizabeth Scalia asks what Democrats are not so ostentatiously sorry as they were in 2004. She suggests, in today’s first “On the Square” article, that they may have seen something they’re actually sorry about. . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists have used a modified version of the induced pluripotent stem cell process to create blood cells out of skin cells—without going through the pluripotent stage. This could be big. From the story:Mick Bhatia, scientific director of McMaster’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research . . . . Continue Reading »
[Conclusion of the astute synopsis by Mr. Entel, followed by his even more astute questions:] Plato, Hancock contends, enacts this yoke between being and knowing by seemingly affirming the simple superiority of theory to practice, thus suppressing the question of the relation between the good of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Immanent Frame is a blog devoted to “secularism, religion, and the public sphere” sponsored by the Social Science Research Council . This is a theme that interests me (and, I’d imagine, many readers of FT), so I read it from time to time. But this collection of brief . . . . Continue Reading »
unlike peter, i never predict an election. but i do postdict. here is an account of the election that will shortly appear in the crb Facts speak for themselves. The Democratic Party under Barack Hussein Obama in 2010 suffered the greatest defeat for a newly elected president in a midterm since the . . . . Continue Reading »
(Crossposted from blog.atimes.net)The World Bank president got it exactly right:HONG KONG (MarketWatch) –- The president of the World Bank said in a newspaper editorial Monday that the Group of 20 leading economies should consider adopting a global reserve currency based on gold as part of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Last of the Legendary Mitfords , now the Duchess of Devonshire, tells the story of her fascinating family, which among the sisters included one novelist, one Communist, one Fascist, one admirer of Hitler, and herself. Millions and millions of people died in the “Bloodlands” of . . . . Continue Reading »
The muse struck me late Friday night and I scripted a little satirical cartoon (reposted above) about a fictional conversation between a mainstream bioethicist and a Hippocratic Oath believing doctor. I have mostly had an enthusiastic response. However, a few have accused me of painting . . . . Continue Reading »
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