Links of interest for May 23rd, 2008 through June 4th, 2008:
Oil prices: George Soros warns that speculators could trigger stock market crash | Business | guardian.co.uk - Soros says that oil was pushed to its recent all-time peak of $135 a barrel by a new wave of speculators. He believes that the doubling in the [...]
Over one hundred years ago Mark Twain pointed out what it means to “support the troops” in this prayer, the unspoken thought behind any prayer for victory in war:
O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — [...]
Links of interest for April 23rd, 2008 through May 9th, 2008:
BBC NEWS | Health | The man who grew a finger - Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip using "pixie dust," an extracellular matrix made from pig bladders.
Selling the War with Iran - The Washington Note - American lack of understanding of the true situation [...]
Links of interest for April 15th, 2008 through April 21st, 2008:
The Seven Myths of Energy Independence - Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
Frequently asked questions about poetry - Why don’t modern poems rhyme? Answers to that and other questions, in the forms of the poems themselves.
Scientists Flesh Out Plans to [...]
Today we had to euthanize Ranae, our 15-year-old tuxedo cat.
Plato’s Cave
A little over a year ago she was diagnosed with diabetes. We guessed at the time that she’d had it for a while, since, when we put her on “kitty Atkins” (Fancy Feast cat food) and Glipizide (an oral glucose-control medication), she changed from a [...]
Links of interest for March 30th, 2008 through April 5th, 2008:
Short Words to Explain Relativity - Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less
How to Disagree - A guide to the disagreement hierarchy, from name-calling to refutation.
A Tiny Revolution: Oh Noes!!! - "…watch out, world: you having the power to deter [...]
Links of interest for February 25th, 2008 through March 28th, 2008:
Why voting is wrong - "For most people, the electoral charade provides a kind of relief valve for angers and frustrations that might otherwise seek a more effectual outlet."
The Reality-Based Community: How fair was that trial? - James Wimberley compares the trial of Jesus with [...]
Yesterday evening I saw a dead man for the first time.
It was my father.
I. O, Fortuna
I am both fortunate and unfortunate in being able to say that. Fortunate in that, for much of the rest of the world, the sight of death is likely to come both too early and too often, and certainly not [...]
Links of interest for February 21st, 2008 through February 23rd, 2008:
BBC NEWS | Europe | Guernsey | Sark agrees to switch to democracy - Politicians in the Channel Island of Sark have agreed to end the island’s feudal system of government which has been in place for the past 450 years.
The Difference Between an Illegal [...]
Ezra Klein joins Jason Zengerle in defending Barack Obama against the silly plagiarism charge leveled by Hilllary Clinton, and in the process reveals some confusion about what ghostwriters actually do:
“Moreover, as Jason Zengerle reminds us, Clinton has written two books, both with ghostwriters, one in which she didn’t even credit the ghostwrite in the acknowledgments, [...]
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