Remembering John Adams
(Part one of two) When Abigail Adams died in late October, 1818, her husband, John, brokenhearted, said, “I wish I could lie down beside her and die, too.” Today, the two are entombed side by side, along with their son John Quincy and his wife, Louisa Catherine, in a well-lit, whitewashed crypt beneath the United […]
And now, for a moment of quantum journalism: Professor Snarky Pants offers a comment/non-comment on the discovery/non-discovery of the Higgs boson
by Tom Yulsman Concerning this morning’s New York Times article on CERN’s Higgs boson announcement: The newly discovered particle may be the Higgs boson. It looks for all the world like the Higgs boson. It is for sure a “Higgs-like” particle. Its discovery is an historic “milestone.” It may be one of the biggest observations since […]
Are you proud to be an American? I’m not.
by JS O’Brien Doubtless, the title of this piece made you think I was about to launch into a blame-America-first jeremiad on this July 4. Not the case. This is about pride; what it is and why it makes sense, or doesn’t make sense, to have it. I grew up around adults who had a […]
Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow: forecast calls for a deluge of teabagger human kindness. Or not.
By Patrick Vecchio I am waiting to see if—no, make it how—the Tea party and other way-right-leaning Republicans react to this week’s barely-qualifies-as-news that TV journalist/personality Anderson Cooper admitted he is gay. (Details here) Another story from this week also has me worried about the backlash, but first, Cooper: I have no idea how much […]
America's birth certificate
Everyone knows that America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who someone, apparently erroneously, thought discovered America. So, where did this story come from? Well, if you wander through the stifling heat over to the Library of Congress, you can see the map that contains the first usage of “America.” It’s a map […]
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populartechnology: You are seriously comparing the mathematical error…
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Brian Angliss: Their methodology is imperfect. They admit it. I…
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