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Other cool stuff in the latest Scientific American:  Do it yourself quantum physics.
I haven’t read it yet, but the concept of the article is just too cool.  I had to blog it right away.

By Thoreau
The latest Scientific American is out. I haven’t had a chance to read much of it yet, but there’s an interesting editorial justifying their decision to run a cancer research article written by Peter Duesberg. Duesberg, as some may recall, is a prominent AIDS skeptic/denier/crackpot/up-and-coming-Galileo/whatever. However, he has also done some [...]

Your Talking Dog continues his landmark series of interviews with luminaries of the GWOT’s counter-narrative with a new Q&A. This time he talks to Knut Royce, coauthor of The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq.

Two entries on Crooked Timber touch on the suddenly popular question of gun control. The one by Scott McLemee is merely sophistical.
So what have we learned from this past week?
First of all, that when the Founding Fathers wrote about the need for a “well-regulated militia,” it meant they wanted a free market in guns with [...]

At the very least! Jon H downblog on the Cho video release:
If nothing else, as portrayed on the videos, Cho doesn’t seem like someone worth emulating, except to people who think monotone muttering is kewl. Hopefully, the videos will deflate any myth that might otherwise have sprung up around him.
If that alone doesn’t do it, [...]

Mall-based accupressure joints.

Hesiod tips me to an interesting story about Wal-Mart, which has been accused of illegal and/or unethical surveillance of “shareholders, suppliers and others.”
William Atwood, the executive director of the Illinois State Board of Investment, said Wal-Mart’s board could have avoided the surveillance scandal if it had not rebuffed a proposal from a group of large [...]

On the question of releasing the Cho videos, Kevin Drum defends NBC’s decision on the grounds that “like it or not, they’re also a key part of helping us understand one of the biggest news stories of the year.” Julian Sanchez objects:
The thing is… they’re really not.
If there were really insights to be gleaned from [...]

By Mona
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Should it happen that members of the Riehl family would seek confinement proceedings against Dan, few libertarians would be inclined to support them, out of principle. But others might contemplate his ravings about “dark hours” and conclude that his being free is dangerous to others:

…had the Founding Fathers been saddled [...]

Hugo Chavez talks a big game, but persists in half measures. The promising headline, Venezuela launches Zeppelin to tackle rampant crime!, turns out to be about mere surveillance craft. As someone on the Fate RPG mailing list wrote,
Now they need to arm them, hang biplanes from them or pack them full of monkeys. [...]