Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
While President Nixon assures the American people that the withdrawal of combat troops from South Vietnam is on schedule, the South Vietnamese may soon be requesting more US support:
In a startling admission Wednesday, Iraq’s top military commander said the army will need U.S. military support until 2020 – nine years longer than [...]

By Thoreau
Interesting work (summary here, full technical report here) on bacteria that process food into alkanes (the stuff of car fuel and jet fuel) instead of ethanol.  Now, I’ve read enough of these reports to not get my hopes up too much, but this report is at least (1) not from a university and (2) [...]

By Thoreau
In a comment thread over at Jennifer’s place, a commenter argued that even though Muslims and Christians and Jews are all monotheists, revere many of the same prophets and teachers, and believe in a single creator deity, the Muslims are not part of the Abrahamic tradition because their deity is (allegedly) derived from a [...]