Procrastination

May 2nd, 2009

Jon Stewart had a pretty great interview last week with Cliff May where they discussed the merits of torture, which was excellent on many levels. What got a lot of traction was Stewart’s assertion that Truman was a war criminal for using the A-Bomb against Japan; he acknowledged that he could understand the decision at [...]

LHC

September 11th, 2008

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you know that yesterday the Large Hadron Collider went online, much to the joy of physicists everywhere. It will clear up a bunch of questions about the Standard Model and, more happily for me, it might confirm the theoretical existence of skittens. It also [...]