Author: Dave

Wonderful News!!!! Governor Schwarzenegger of California is planning to fund Dr Bussards IEC Fusion project. In a move sure to impress environmentalists and further cement his Earth friendly image, Governor Schwarzenegger is set to launch a multimillion dollar research effort into a revolutionary new source of clean non-polluting power. The project is focused on the…

I was reading Althouse about the latest Dem debates and got reminded of some of my favorite music by Ann. For those who want to see some concert footage of the Doors and Morrison’s ironic comments about American Democracy the third video (right most) is it. The middle one in my opinion is musically better.…

Wonkette is threatening legal action against My Right Word for asking is “Wonkette Antisemitic?” If I understand you and Wonkette correctly, you thought it was cute/clever or whatever, to borrow a term, “Jew–liani”, from that clip and, without any comment about its specific ethnic frame of reference, slap it up on a new post the…

Lubos Motl is complaining about the invasion of personal gossip into physics. David Goss has sent me a flawless article from the July 19th issue of Nature, pages 297-301. Everyone who prefers articles about physics itself over fourth-class porn about physicists sleeping with other physicists – the kind of junk that numerous Woits and Smolins…

Randy Barnett has been doing some writing on Libertarians and War. Most recently this Wall Street Journal piece. Which has spawned a lot of discussion with Randy at the Volokh Conspiracy. A number of commenters have noted that the Iraq War started without a declaration of war, but instead Congress gave the President an authorization…

I just read a bit touting Bill Richardson as a strong Democratic contender for President. Here is a bit of what the stands for: …he advocates complete and total withdrawal of troops from Iraq within six months… You don’t make babies or win wars by total withdrawal. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control…

Eric at Classical Values is discussing Clayton Cramers’s piece on the prevalence of abortion before Roe. His conclusion about abortion is that it may actually be happening at a lower rate since Roe. Clayton’s most important point is his conclusion. If you have to arrest and try your own citizens for a crime on a…

Michael Totten has a fascinating interview up with historian Michael Oren. PORTLAND, OREGON – Renowned American-Israeli historian and best-selling author Michael Oren is touring the United States promoting his new book Power, Faith, and Fantasy a sweeping history of America’s involvement in the Middle East from 1776 to the present. It’s the first and only…

I see Eric has done a post this morning on scientist making policy prescriptions outside their field of expertise. I have a good example from some physicists. I think it is syncronicity. == I was visiting a physics blog (well the Duke case has lost my interest so I have to do something) and came…

Commentary Magazine has an interesting article by Charles Murray discussing the origins of Jewish Genius. Since its first issue in 1945, COMMENTARY has published hundreds of articles about Jews and Judaism. As one would expect, they cover just about every important aspect of the topic. But there is a lacuna, and not one involving some…

It looks like Global Warming Scares have reached their sell by date and are now being discounted. People are starting to fall away from the old time religion. Here is a video from CNN. Not exactly your most conservative station. Especially check out Bjorn Lumborg at about 9 1/2 minutes into the program. He says…

Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine takes a look at Timothy Leary. Never too comfortable with politics (he dismissed student activists as “young men with menopausal minds” and proclaimed that LSD stood for “Let the State Disintegrate”), he nevertheless hosted a Los Angeles fundraiser in 1988 for the very buttoned-down Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ron Paul…

Here is a report from 2005 that may explain recent climate changes or not. This web page documents the increase in severe weather throughout our entire solar system and relates it to the obvious cause, increased solar activity. The increase in severe weather suddenly appeared in 2002, too suddendly to be caused by greenhouse gasses…

Zee News reports on a Russian scientist who wants Russia to export fusion power plants. Tokyo, July 13: Russia is eyeing on designing thermonuclear plants for domestic and international market in the next 20 to 25 years, nuclear physicist Yevgeny Velikhov said. He expressed confidence that Russia will be able to begin commercial production of…

I have had to get in rather deeper into geometry than is my usual for the past 30 or so years (since my dome building daze – I built 3 or 4 and even lived in Bucky’s Dome in Carbondale – he was no longer a resident alas) because of my design work on the…

Syria looks to be creating new troubles for Lebanon. Syria has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon ahead of an expected “eruption” in that country, Arab and Iranian press reports have said. The media reports were translated and made available by MEMRI in a special dispatch on Sunday. “In the past few days, Arab…

Here are some very quarky girls you might like to know. When ever I see them my hadrons start to vibrate and my liquid nitrogen begins to boil over. They are The Cernettes. For those of you not familiar with CERN here is a video tour of a CERN LHC project. Especially check out the…

We have a winner (finally!) of the I Support Democracy In Iraq contest. No more fitting day either. Thanks to Karl Egenberger of Envision Design/ Plum Creative Associates, Towson, Md 21286, who did the design. And Coyote Organics who supplied the contest prize. Instructions for joining the campaign and putting up the graphic of your…

I did a 4th of July Bikini edition last year. It was so popular (with me) that I’m doing it again. I love doing the research. BTW not work safe. Probably not wife safe. Unless you have a forgiving mate such as I do.

A long time ago I read a science fiction story called Mars Inc. It was about a man who paid some scientists to develop all this micro-miniaturized stuff to induce humans to work together. You know “the Martians are coming and how can we compete”? I was fascinated by the idea of storing a jukebox…