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That Bloomberg article Greg mentions below is, indeed, something else. They had me at "Shi'ite Muslim rebellion". They also mentioned 4 armed men being arrested outside the US Embassy. The […]
A number of my favorite commentators on Yemen have been speaking and writing on Yemen lately and here is an assortment of their varied views:First up is Daniel Varisco of […]
Saudi Arabia has finally revealed the names of the two individuals killed in the shootout in Jizan. (I am seeing this spelled two different ways in Arabic one with an […]
In recent days there has been a series - does three equal a spate? - of articles on the attempted assassination of Muhammad bin Nayif, which I have written about […]
Waq al-waq is proud to link to Jarret Brachman's blog on all things Jihadi. Jarret was kind enough to let me sit beside him at a conference last year back […]
Yemen and fears of secession is the topic of the "Big Question" over at World Policy Journal's blog. I helped a bit with the project - not in putting it […]
It should come as little surprise to readers of this blog, despite the fact that I attempted to fly under the radar, that I have been in Yemen for the […]
Instead of talking about how Reuters came late to the party let's embrace the fact that they came at all. (Anyone with the reference?)
The New York Times has just posted a story on Yemen and the difficulties of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay.Those who read this blog know how I feel about […]
This is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing from an aid worker, Saddam al-Abdeeni, in Sa'dah.
Al-Sahwa and other Yemeni newspapers are reporting clashes between Yemeni security forces and al-Qaeda suspects in Hudaydah. (One warning note: over the next several days we will inevitably see a […]
I ran into this brief article that mentions that Monday night, flights between Australia and Indonesia were disrupted by an ash plume from an unknown volcano (well, unknown to the […]
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Stephen Wolfram ponders what a unified theory of the universe might look like.
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We have discovered ways to automate some discoveries. But are our axioms necessarily the result of the evolution of human thought anyway?
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What if science could describe the universe in terms of a computer program? Would that program be incredibly complex or incredibly simple?
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Wolfram Alpha had essentially been in the works for 25 years, but the time wasn’t right until last year to unveil it to the public.
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Unlike search engines like Google or Bing, Wolfram Alpha actually computes new knowledge rather than searching through previously published material.
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A Conversation with the physicist and businessman.
After spending some tumultuous time together at the infamous “Yellow House” in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, no stranger to psychiatric help, thought that fellow artist and former roommate Paul Gauguin […]
The most common form of domestic terrorism in the U.S. is violent attacks on abortion clinics. Between 1973 and 2003, over 300 abortion providers were the target of acts of […]