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Great Sailing Photos
The Found on Smugmug blog had a great entry called “See Spray” that showed beautiful pictures of sailboats in the San Francisco Bay.
Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance.
Shadow Government has a very good interview with the Kori Schake, the author of this new book. Here is what she says about this book in her own words: It’s a book about American power: why it’s so predominant in … Continue reading
The F-22 Raptor
Mark Bowden at the Atlantic has a great article on Col. Cesar Rodriguez. Mr. Bowden explains why we need more funding to replace our aging F-15′s and F-16′s; we must either pay that cost ahead of time in dollars, or … Continue reading
Inflation in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s central bank says it will soon introduce a 100 trillion dollar note as the once prosperous country battles to keep pace with hyperinflation that has caused many to abandon the country’s currency. … The new 100 trillion dollar bill … Continue reading
IBM Research and MRFM
IBM scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging MRI with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. … For more than a decade, IBM scientists have … Continue reading
Our world may be a giant hologram
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise … Continue reading
Original Tour de France
As you know, the Tour de France began in 1903 as some sort of wild-hair publicity scheme for the sports daily L’Auto, a paper that eventually evolved into what is now L’Equipe. The race differed remarkably from the one we … Continue reading
Intolerance in the classroom
As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we’re all united now, let’s consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment. Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter … Continue reading
Google Flu Trends
Google has analyzed their billions of searches and discovered that flu-related searches correlate with actual CDC epidemiological data. From their FAQ, We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually … Continue reading
Middle Class Would Pay Less Under McCain Tax Plan
A closer look at the Obama and McCain tax plans for the reveals that it is not just the “rich” taxpayers earning more than $200,000 that would face higher rates under Obama than under McCain’s tax proposal. The reason for … Continue reading