CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to become fully operational on Wednesday. This is a tremendously exciting event, but unfortunately it’s very rare that cutting-edge science gets the kind of attention it deserves in the media - and all too often the information gets distorted, as this article at The Times (of London, […]
If you have a few hours to spare, I recommend taking a look at Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, by Peter Allison. The title is pretty self-explanatory, and the book is just a series of anecdotes about the author’s time spent as a guide in the Okavango Delta. […]
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, died earlier today in Sri Lanka.
It is far beyond my poor powers to condense an extraordinary 90-year life into a few paragraphs, but I can’t let his life pass without saying something. This man I’ve never met influenced my life too much for me to stay silent. He touched your […]
Given the widespread coverage of the New Hampshire primary, I debated whether it was worth even writing about. Unfortunately, I think there’s a clause somewhere that requires all blogs to sound off on the issue, and so we boldly toss The Modest Proposal’s hat in the ring. Since everyone else is parsing the results, I’d […]