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Well, it's that time again. With the world economy in crisis, and the administration sticking to it's "Everything's gonna be OK" strategy, our candidates are holding a "town hall"-style debate. I live-blogged the last debate, and it wiped me out and pissed off the other people in the room, but…
Ages and ages ago, I posted the picture that's the "featured image" above, and asked people to submit physics comments about it. Then I got distracted by a series of shiny things, and never did anything with the handful of responses I got. Because I'm a Terrible Person. Anyway, it's long overdue,…
The Times last weekend had a big article on the "achievement gap" in education, where poor and minority students are found to lag behind upper- and middle-class white students in many subjects. The author looks at a number of innovative shools that are producing good results with students from the…
Stick a fork in Keith Olbermann. He's done. He has now officially degenerated into a liberal version of Rush Limbaugh, except that Rush Limbaugh is occasionally funny. Maybe he's more like Sean Hannity, particularly in his apparent dedication to the truth, or, rather, lack thereof. Hannity detests…

Olbermann -

Did you read the comments to your linked article on Olbermann? You're on the wrong side of this fight.

Re: the State of the Union:

Obama mentions wanting to import more people for labs.

HOW ABOUT TAKING AWAY FEDERAL MONEY FROM BUSINESS AND THE ARTS AND PUTTING IT IN SCIENCE?

I want to see some useless-ass art schools close by the end of the decade.

By Katharine (not verified) on 25 Jan 2011 #permalink