Adam

Emergent Chaos

The CBC Quirks and Quarks podcast on "The 10% Solar System Solution" is a really interesting 9 minutes with Scott Gaudi on how to find small planets far away: We have to rely on nature to give us the microlensing events. That means we can't actually pick and choose which ... Read More

Ed Hasbrouck on "Lessons from the case of the man who set his underpants on fire" A Canadian woman who's been through the new process is too scared to fly. "Woman, 85, ‘terrified’ after airport search." Peter Arnett reported "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a ... Read More

The lead of this story caught my eye: (CNN) -- Legislatures in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico met in 2009, leading to the enactment of 40,697 laws, many of which take effect January 1. That's an average of 753 laws passed ... Read More

I expect that there will be senseless acts of violence, planes destroyed and perhaps a city attacked with effective biological weapons. There will be crazy people with more power than we want to comprehend. There will be a billion malnourished, undereducated folks whose lives don't improve. The first world will ... Read More