I'm sitting in the Fish Tale with the bloggers from Olympia Time, Oly Ost, and einmaleins (that's Emmett, Mark, and Mathias, if you didn't know). We're talking about the upcoming elections this fall--City Council mostly, with a little School Board--and figuring out how to use all the digital tools a...

On average, five hours of scoring and acting as parliamentarian of Student Congress translates into at least three weeks of education. What, though, are the lessons? time passes faster than you think "Go back to World War I. When that ended, the Depression hit." make up any word you want "...when sc...

I'll let the science writer explain a potential challenge to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: Maurice de Gosson at the University of Vienna in Austria thinks that the inability to pin a particle down is due to something called symplectic geometry, not quantum weirdness. De Gosson realised that ...

Activism is easy. Changing things is hard....

This blogger is an expert in crafting random questions--and pretty good at answering them. But where do you go when your random question needs a forthright, efficient, speedy reply? Try "AskMetaFilter," Slate's Michael Agger argues: For example, last October, the user "Hands of Manos" posed the foll...

Peter Wall's first post on the vigilantism resolution attempted to define its scope. His second is now available. In it, Wall draws on the work of H.L.A. Hart, using an example of a vigilante, A, who has to coerce B into obeying the law, to cast light on a difficult epistemic problem for the affirma...

Anyone can ask easy questions. But you want tough questions, questions that will dazzle your date. Each question will be rated from 1-10, 1 being easiest. Context will be provided as well, so you can employ the question at the right time. For ultimate success, practice! Try these on someone you know...

Regarding the vigilantism March/April LD resolution, if political theory is a jar of peanut butter, then finding analysis of vigilantism in that jar is like scraping out the last bits at the bottom. In "Vigilantism and Political Theory," found in Vigilante Politics, Edward Stettner grabs a spatula a...

A little hagiography never hurts. Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, explains why the Rockets' Shane Battier is perhaps the smartest, if not the best, basketballer in the NBA.People often say that Kobe Bryant has no weaknesses to his game, but that’s not really true. Before the game, Battier was ...

Self-defense for women, jujitsu style. Watch for the... Dated genderisms Dry wit Butt-kicking [More via Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing.]...