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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 […]
Monday Musings: Titan’s ice volcanism, Merapi and the moon, Toba wasn’t so bad and Shiveluch’s plume
Now that AGU is behind us and that I've waded through a lot of grading (over the weekend: 4 sets of labs and one each of papers and homework), I […]
Part of being a postmodern conservative is being open to the truth of the distinctively personal LOGOS of Christianity, to the possibility that the Christian understanding of being a person is […]
ScienceNOW's Top 10 list of its favorite and most popular stories of 2010 is an eclectic mix. It includes its most popular story of all time: "Does Our Universe Live Inside a Wormhole?"
Germany's controversial approach to fighting the euro crisis has split the European Union. The only thing agreed on is that the EU needs Germany as a motor if it is to survive.
Absent Mao’s exploits, the Chinese people would have started to enjoy their present good fortune three decades earlier. But would it have had a strong political basis for its prosperity?