Reading this article about ethnicity and adoption (via Tim Worstall) I recall the apartheid era in South Africa. At one point in my career I was under strict instructions to do work hard to end apartheid racist rule in South Africa, since it compelled the iniquitous legalistic but spurious intrusion of […]
This post back in May linked to Boris Johnson’s choice of a different sort of person to be Deputy Mayor in London. Ooops.
Wimbledon gets British people very excited, even though we almost never win anything there. Maybe a bit too excited? But Centre Court is always capricious. Sometimes it seems not so much like a court as a courtesan – beautiful, generous, but always capable of withdrawing her favours for no apparent […]
… and there is Lileks, in full flow explaining the magnificence of Wall-E.
We think that we are pretty darn smart these days, what with all our clever new inventions. But in seventy years’ time, won’t we look a bit … quaint?
In all the clamour about saving energy, what energy systems and savings in fact make a difference on a scale that matters? Fascinating analysis here: Our conclusion: if we covered the windiest 10 per cent of the country with windmills, we might be able to generate half of the energy […]
Somehow this profoundly depressing posting by Instapundit back in January about the state of eduction in wealthy America stuck in my mind: Many of my students—entirely too many—come into my 9th grade classroom woefully unprepared for even the most basic rigors of high school science. They do not study. They do […]
A neat article about the (erroneous) idea that a twitching butterfly wing can be shown to unleash a chain of events culminating in a hurricane: … a point Lorenz amplified in his 1972 paper, "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" […]
Here is a typical modern academic definition: ‘a transportation device that compressed spacial units into conquerable size’. Of what?
Who said the Crawfords lack it? Good to see my precious DNA being put to such fine use.
