The most interesting news story of the day concerns the actual mechanism used by the Chinese authorities to censor the internet. It’s not what you’d expect — rather than a direct filter on content, it’s a 21st-century variant of the “Panopticon”. Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, El Ing...

During the November 13 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Mark Levin cited a recent study (subscription required) predicting that an ice age will occur in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years as purported evidence that humans should not "try and control carbon dioxide" emissions that con...

Click here for the article by Della Bradshaw of the Financial Times, November 17 2008. Tall, silver-haired, immaculately dressed, John Wells looks every inch the corporate executive. Hardly surprising, you might think, for a man who has spent much of his life working in business and management consu...

The most ominous news story tonight: “IAF is Ready for Iran’s Nuclear Sites”. A period of great peril for Israel is fast approaching. Assuming that the mullahs have a nuclear capability, the most dangerous time will likely be between the inauguration of Barack Obama — when the United States ...

Bruce Schneier linked to an interesting 2007 journal article from Risk Management, Reduing the Risk of Human Extinction, which looks at both the risks of existential threats and what the cost/benefit analysis looks like in where we should put our money to prevent them. One interesting issue that Jas...

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One wouldn't expect the 17th century English philosopher Francis Bacon to have much of a sweet tooth; he always struck me as a rather curmudgeonly sort, thoughts firmly fixed on Higher Matters, eschewing the paltry comforts of the flesh. But Jen-Luc Piquant suspects he might have had a secret fondne...

Don’t miss “Letter From Iceland” under the “General” heading. The most concentrated essence of the financial crisis can be found in Iceland, and the account of recent events there is fascinating — and sobering. Thanks to C. Cantoni, Conservative Swede, Diana West, Insubria, JD, no2libera...

Physicist predicts man-made global warming bubble to burst in 2008 Note below from Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen, an MIT educated physicist, author of the book An Introduction to High-Temperature Superconductivity, and writer of the popular newspaper column "Ask the Everyday Scientist." One day back in Febr...

God, as played by Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty By The Ragged Trousered Philosopher I met god the other day. I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every...