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See also The one sided clash of civilizations . Telegraph : ...If the aim was to choke the US shale industry, the Saudis have misjudged...

Unusually cold this year on the central coast, but we had a nice afternoon at the beach. Get your th...

Some recommended long form articles: One hundred years of Gracie Jiujitsu Teen entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley Pro Gamers in Korea W...

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Mary was born...

For years, when asked what I wanted for Christmas, I've been replying: peace on earth, good will toward men :-) No one ever seems...

A great conversation between Tyler Cowen and fund manager Cliff Asness, who has appeared many times on this blog. See, e.g., this 2004 po...

I'm shocked that CNN published Columbia professor John McWhorter's editorial on Scalia's mismatch comments. His remarks chall...

MSU research ranked #6 among US universities in combined National Science Foundation + Department of Energy funding. Ahead of Michigan, St...

Nash and Milnor were involved in experimental tests of n-person game theory at RAND in 1952. Even then it was clear that game theory had ...

Earlier CRISPR posts here . New Yorker : At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute o...

3 great fights tonight (counting Jacare and Romero). Weidman vs Rockhold too close to call. I wonder whether either of them could beat peak ...

15 year old Philip K. Dick's short story The Slave Race (his first published science fiction) appeared in the Young Authors' Club...

In one of his early blog posts, Terence Tao (shown above with Paul Erdos in 1985) wrote Does one have to be a genius to do maths? The...

George Church dissents from the recommendation of the National Academies of the US, UK, and China. Nature : Encourage the innovators Int...

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I have principles. — J.S. Bell My own conclusion ... there is no interpretation of quantum mecha...

A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wis...

Radar and nuclear weapons could not have been developed without the big brains . Feynman’s War: Modelling Weapons, Modelling Nature Pete...

A great profile of Nick Bostrom in the New Yorker. I often run into Nick at SciFoo and other similar meetings. When Nick is around I kno...

Season 2 will be released soon on Amazon Prime. If you like The Man in the High Castle, you might like David Brin's short story (and g...

  Wow! The potential here is amazing. One of the guys in the video compares it to pod racing in Star Wars. Also cool:

Two sociologists theorize the campus culture of victimhood as a transition to a third moral culture, supplanting earlier cultures center...

Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers , by Tom Wolfe. First appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine, April 1971. (The Sixties lasted well into the Sev...

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad ...