The HSR study I mentioned before on the declining toll of war has attracted a number of criticisms. Les Roberts at Making Sense of Sudan argues that their result is an artifact of the way in which the authors have defined the term "war." HRDAG...
Month: February 2010
The plan for the book I'm co-authoring is to have three or four substantial chapters focusing on 1) rhetoric generally, 2) the history of the medium, 3) the mechanics of.
Obviously, the idea that Evan Bayh has any chance of winning a national Democratic primary is funny stuff (or pathetic, when the person making the argument is actually paid to.
The Other Scott already noted Glenn Reynolds's tendentious link and Steven Taylor's pithy rebuttal of its underlying "logic," but I wanted to focus on the quotation from Reynolds's reader in the update, because it points to a fundamental disconnect between the rhetoric of the right...
The conclusion to draw from this video is that robots pose no threat to our way of life. If even a simple cat can defeat a robot, then it would.
My official, rational, considered position is that Evan Bayh's retirement is a bad thing, given the near certainty that he will be replaced by a Republican with a much worse.
The British National Party has boldly entered the 20th Century by voting to allow non whites to become, gasp, members of the BNP. Leader (and MEP) Nick Griffin is quoted in The Guardian article as conservatively estimating membership from non-whites to be a "trickle, rather...
I think it's pretty well-known that nothing can turn a music critic's mind to mush faster than considering whether someone has "sold out," but David Hajdu's entry in the field.
Glenn Reynolds....it's a twofer! In context, taking an isolated assertion at ratemyprofessor that Bishop is a "socialist" at face value and then implying that it's somehow relevant to her multiple.
The GOP essentially wins yet another procedural round in the Senate. It should be noted as well that using various tyranny-of-the-minority tactics to prevent presidents from staffing their administrations is indefensible even by Senate standards; the increase in recess appointments is a perfectly justified way...
The US military shot down a missile with a laser fired from a Boeing 747 this week, the first time an anti-missile system has destroyed a missile in its boost.
Google continues to take heat over its new uber-anti-privacy-architecture. Tts new Buzz application makes an important error in assuming that every link between nodes (email addresses) implies homophily, and that.