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Security Beat The DHS gets security advice from Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and David Brin. I feel safer already. (tags: stupid SF war US politics) States' Data Obscure How Few Finish High School - New York Times "Like Mississippi, many states use an inflated graduation rate for federal…
So it goes.: A Day in the Life "I wake up to the sun's early morning glow or from the Luganda streaming through my mosquito net, which I'm not sure. It is another day in Uganda, a handful of kilometers beneath the equator. I can easily recall the first days in Africa when the sun did not wrestle…
slacktivist: More on subsidiarity "[W]here it exists here in America, inefficient Big Government tends to be the direct and predictable result of anti-regulation, anti-government laissez-faire and libertarian-ish ideologies" (tags: economics politics US society) Second Law of Thermodynamics…
Bell Labs Is Gone. Academia Steps In. - New York Times The pros and cons of partnerships between major corporations and research universities. (tags: academia economics science industry) Matter-Wave Interferometry with Phase Fluctuating Bose-Einstein Condensates A new paper from the Ketterle…