Category Archives: sciences

under the hurtling moons

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

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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death by safety

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

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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

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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 … Continue reading

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