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Sunday, 2005 February 6, 20:32 — astronomy

under the hurtling moons

Too cool! Titan appears to have rivers of liquid methane.

Saturday, 2004 December 25, 13:30 — astronomy

mark your calendar

Asteroid 2004MN4 is an exceptionally high impact threat: the boffins give it one chance in 45 of intersecting with Earth on 2029 April 13.

Monday: Or not; newer measurements have taken that date off the list, though they still give 2004MN4 one chance in about thirty thousand of hitting us sometime in the coming century.

Friday, 2004 December 24, 23:17 — economics, prose

temporal foreshortening

On a private mailing list someone wrote:

having just seen the 1951 Britisher version of the Dickens Christmas Carol, it struck me that free marketeers should really live in Dickensian England and try work their way out from the bottom.

I thought of writing a rant about Dickens’s sins, but a better approach presented itself:

FYI

1838: Oliver Twist

1843: A Christmas Carol

1846: repeal of the Corn Laws — commonly cited as the first triumph of the free trade movement

Friday, 2004 December 24, 11:39 — eye-candy, mathematics

Doctor Matrix’s little helpers

Ed Pegg writes:

I’d like to do a “behind the scenes” look at Mathematical Games for an article. Martin [Gardner] did lots, but he avidly used a lot of help from hundreds of people. I’d like to write an article about the background help. If you ever assisted in one of Martin’s columns, I’d like to hear from you — a note about what you did. I’ll use these notes in my article.

A link from Pegg leads indirectly to a collection of weird and wonderful algorithmic paintings.

Wednesday, 2004 December 15, 21:08 — drugwar, medicine

death by safety

Independent Institute: History of Federal [drug] Regulation (cited by Sunni Maravillosa)

Saturday, 2004 December 11, 14:54 — drugwar, futures, medicine, security theater

links without comment

Barlow v TSA (password-protected) (thanks Sunah)

Tasteless Screeners Awards

Gun Grabbers Say the Damnedest Things!

School as prison

What is Too Human? The ethics of human-animal chimeras

An Indian’s Thanksgiving Proposal

Give ’em what they want: more government

Sunday, 2004 December 5, 18:42 — economics, politics

if only you believed in miracles

Travis found a choice rant by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek:

But the bluest blue-state left-“liberal” atheist oughtn’t be too quick with the self-congratulatory praise of his or her own rational faculties. Most left-liberals are pure creationists when it comes to society and social order. For them, government is the creator of order . . . .

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