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Shahn Majid looks at dark energy. Will it herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Last week I explained what I argue to be the greatest theoretical challenge facing fundamental physics today; that the very concept of the spacetime continuum is flawed and in need of revision. This week I want to explain […]
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Continuing from last Thursday – Don Albers’ long interview with math puzzle legend Martin Gardner. Yes, he once edited a magazine for girls. Newcomers: start from the beginning here >> Humpty Dumpty’s Gardner: That’s right, it’s not until I started selling stories to Esquire that I thought I could make a decent living as a […]
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A San Francisco Chronicle reporter recently met with Future Imperfect author David Friedman, to speak about the book. The interview appears in today’s Chronicle. Aside from discussing the usual doomsday scenarios, they enter a larger debate about the role of government in private life. Technology as lens to ponder imperfect future ‘In a century-old former […]
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Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton sent me yet another story demonstrating the frustrating position that law enforcement finds itself in when dealing with childhood sex abuse and the Statute of Limitations. ‘DALLAS – While authorities said they have solved the case in the rape of a child in 1983, justice will not be served. […]
Read MoreFuture Imperfect author David Friedman talks to Forbes about potentially painful technologies. Future Imperfect is full of ’em. But it’s not about how to stop it, it’s about how to manage. ‘Even the most wonderful technology has unintended consequences. And for many technologies, no consequence can be more unintended than this: pain.’ And let’s not […]
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Continuing from last week, we’ll continue with Don Albers‘ 2004 interview with Martin Gardner right where we left off: Navy Service DA: In December of 1941, the U.S. entered World War II and you enlisted in the Navy. Gardner: I ended up serving on DE 134, a destroyer escort, in the Atlantic. I was miserably […]
Read MoreIf you consider where we were only seven years ago, the notion that the world and President Bush’s record would be the victim not to terrorism but to bad mortgages would have seemed incredible. And yet, the political terrain today is not made by the war on terror as much as it is by a […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2008 [Update] This week is over! The winner, and the current contest, will be announced here. Today, we’ll start on the puzzles from Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi. I’ll run three; that’s three more weeks of puzzle goodness. Incidentally, don’t miss Don Albers’ lengthy interview with Gardner, updated weekly. Last […]
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