The odds are terrifically long: so long that not one galaxy in a trillion would bring forth life on an earthlike ...
I heard the word "Techintern" for the first time the other day. It's not exactly current. A Google search for the word brought up 17,000 results, all of which, for as long as I could be bothered to browse, related to interns at tech firms. Some finer tuning on the search arguments turned ...
If you read the news carefully every day, you frequently find yourself thinking how soft, how cowardly, how decadent Western civilization has ...
Ceruzzi, Paul E. Computing: A Concise History. Cambridge, MA; The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, 2012. This time last year all I was hearing about was MOOCs"Massive Open Online Courses, in which university-level instruction, sometimes by big-name lecturers, is provided free over the ...
How about we just post it all straight through to the Swiss bank accounts of Karzai and his family and ...
I was in England for Remembrance Sunday this year. The wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph was very moving. I had forgotten how much emotion the British invest in this and how high a proportion is imaginatively keyed to WWI. Remembrance Sunday is defined to be the Sunday closest to Armistice ...
I note with interest that January 1, 2014 marks the centenary of scheduled commercial passenger airplane flights. I note with further interest, although the interest now has some dark tones, that my own experience as a plane passenger will cover nearly half of those hundred years. On August 25, ...
Welcome to New York City, twinned with Havana " A politician with a personality! " Decline of the RINOcracy " Things to look at when traveling " Driverless cars approaching…. maybe " Chinese citizens hate their government " Kill the ...
In the latest political assault on the spirit and traditions of our fighting forces, US Navy brass has banned SEAL troops from wearing the colonial "DON"T TREAD ON ME" patch on their sleeves. You can imagine how the SEALs themselves feel about this; or if you can"t, here's former ...
The latest white supremacist outrage concerns shoppers, so far only in New York ...
