Posted in Race and slavery, Gender, Art, National security, International relations, Science, Law, Politics on Jul 5th, 2007
Welcome to my blog!
I’m planning to use this blog to offer occasional reflections on topics of interest to me, notably politics, law and foreign relations, but also including science and other topics. I make no promise to post frequently, or that this blog will be interesting to anyone.
From time to time, I will also offer […]
Posted in Race and slavery, Gender, Art, National security, International relations, Science, Law, Politics on Jul 5th, 2007
The blog entries prior to this date are a sampling of posts imported from my old LiveJournal account. I blogged these entries long before I started this site.
Unfortunately, the export from LiveJournal didn’t include any of the original comments.
This is just too funny not to pass on …
This is a letter from a reader in Hot Springs, Arkansas, printed by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
The letter reads, “You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning […]
Posted in Science on Nov 28th, 2005
According to the San Jose Mercury News, a California couple is suing over a UC Berkeley web site which provides high schools with resources for teaching evolution.
Their objection? According to the suit, the web site amounts to an effort “to modify the beliefs of public school science students so they will be more willing to […]
From an account of this year’s Ig Nobel Awards in Cambridge:
The Ig Nobel award in Chemistry went to the Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, “for using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to customers.”
No one from the […]
