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Future Imperfect author David Friedman was recently interviewed on KCSB Santa Barbara’s The Marketplace of Ideas. Have a listen! Lew McCreary, writing for Harvard Business review, recently commented...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
This 5th and final installment in Don Albers’ long interview with Martin Gardner clarifies his philosophical theism, tackles pseudoscience, and glimpses what he’s up to now. Remember, he’s...
Thanks for all the fun entries! The past few weeks have been entertaining, to say the least. I saved one of my favorites, and one of the more tricky problems, for last. It’s not the simplest to...
The historic candidacy of Obama aside, the NY Times noted yesterday, in what it called “quiet political shifts,” that more and more black candidates are gaining ground in heavily white areas. The...
Rowan W. Hamilton Some of Fields medalist Alain Connes‘ revolutionary ideas shed light on how to understand the ‘zoo’ of elementary particles thrown up by accelerators like the LHC. If...
This continues Don Albers’ long interview of Gardner from last week. Or, start from the beginning. Adam, Eve, and Navels DA: In 1979, you talked about retiring from Scientific American that year,...
“Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place,” begins a WIRED piece by Bruce...
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