Loads of Author Events

We have several busy authors speaking at events this week.
Will you be in NY or DC? Give your brain the attention it deserves and stop by!
Marci Hamilton – author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect its Children
Marci is the keynote speaker for the SNAP Press conference backing Statutes of Limitations reform
October 29, [...]

With Powell Endorsement, Bush Foreign Policy Continues

Timothy Lynch
The recent endorsement of Barack Obama by Colin Powell is consequential for two reasons. First, it indicates that Obama has survived the attacks on his past associations and leftist provenance, made by authors such as Jerome Corsi, and is actually now a rather more mainstream foreign policy candidate than many had anticipated. Indeed, if [...]

The Surprising Provenance of French Champagne

Nothing is more French than sparkling champagne, you say? Well, not exactly. Although the wine itself comes from the province of Champagne, just to the east of Paris, the idea that a glass of champagne is supposed to be bubbly is not itself French in origin. In fact, it’s English.

NASA Space Telescope to Test New Theory of Space and Time

Is it impossible to pin down both where and when an event takes place, due to quantum gravity effects?
Shahn Majid explains why this may be.
In these posts I have emphasized ideas on the cutting edge of fundamental science which have testable predictions or other contact with experiment, rather than being merely fashionable. Now, up until [...]

Don’t judge a college endowment by its wealth

Forcing schools to spend more of their endowments on easing tuition burdens would put nonprofits on a slippery slope.
In a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Cambridge authors Burton A.Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou and Evelyn D. Asch explain why bigger spending doesn’t always translate to lower tuitions.

In their Oct. 12 Op-Ed articles, Sen. Charles E. Grassley [...]