February 2012
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Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
theweekmagazine:
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
December 2011
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The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari -... →
October 2011
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September 2011
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July 2011
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Ray Dalio’s Richest and Strangest Hedge Fund →
Dalio is rich—preposterously rich. Last year alone, he earned between two and three billion dollars, and reached No. 55 on the Forbes 400 list. But what distinguishes him more from other hedge-fund managers is the depth of his economic analysis and the pretensions of his intellectual ambition. He is very keen to be seen as something more than a billionaire trader. Indeed, like his sometime rival...
June 2011
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April 2011
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January 2011
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“His theme last night was wtf, winning the future. I thought, okay, that acronym...”
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Sarah Palin, being interviewed on Fox News about her reaction to Obama’s State of the Union address. (via officialssay)
We haven’t had our coffee yet, so we’ll just sit and let this sink in for a moment.
(via theatlantic)
October 2010
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Squashed: Israel and Archbishops →
Danny Ayalon put his foot firmly in his mouth, but was motivated by a claim that Israel’s existence is illegitimate.
The situation is much more complicated than squashed suggests, and that Israel’s claim of legitimacy is founded on much more than just religious principles. His and the bishop’s (perhaps unintentional) focus on the religious justification ignores much of the...
February 2010
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Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview : NPR →
August 2009
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The Law: Can Atheists Be Parents? - TIME →
Here’s what I don’t understand. The judge claimed that “the New Jersey state constitution declares that ‘no person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience.’ Despite Eleanor Katherine’s tender years, he continued, ‘the child should have the freedom to worship as...
April 2009
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London
I just returned from a weekend in London, where I met an old friend. He and his girlfriend very kindly hosted me at their apartment in the East End of London, right next to Petticoat Lane Market. The weather was fantastic. I like London much better than Dublin - I’ve become so accustomed to living in New York, that I felt much more at home in London than here in Dublin.
March 2009
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SURREAL ESTATE: Dubai Enters the Ozymandias Age →
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings Look upon my works, ye mighty, and dispair!
For the Computer Scientists
squashed:
And now for something completely different…
If you watched Sesame Street as a kid, you’re undoubtedly familiar with “one of these things is not like the other” song. If not, you’ve encountered the exercise elsewhere. There are a number of objects that are similar in some obvious way and one object is obviously different. The goal is to identify which one is different.
Preschoolers...
Kilkenny
Today I took the train southwest from Dublin to Kilkenny, a small medieval town in the Irish countryside. Kilkenny comes from the Gaelic “Cill Choinnigh”, meaning Canice’s church, based on the monastery that stood there in the 6th century founded by St. Canice. Kilkenny was once the capital of the Kingdom of Ossary
