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A pregnant daughter, a state trooper firing, and the "bridge to nowhere" which she may or may not have supported (I'm not sure how that one goes). Sarah Palin has shrugged off scandals that would threaten to bring other politicians a lot of grief.
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Update: This is last week’s puzzle, click here for this week’s puzzle! It’s that time again! I’ve got another problem from Martin Gardner’s Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube, and another copy available to win. We’ll move on to the other of the two first volumes in a couple weeks. Find this week’s puzzle after […]
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For the most part, they’re nonprofits. So can universities demonstrate their benefit to society? A New York Times article yesterday reported on a meeting between university presidents and two members of Congress. Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Peter Welch are both pushing the administrators to spend more of their endowment money to push down rising […]
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September 8, 2008 Wow, lots of good video lately. Earlier, we had one of our authors on CNN, questing for the real Ithaca. Now, After Bush author Tim Lynch has appeared on C-SPAN‘s Afterwords. He was interviewed by American Enterprise Institute scholar Gary Schmidt. Click the picture above to watch the full interview at C-SPAN’s […]
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The Odysseus Unbound saga continues Where is the Ithaca of Homer, home to Odysseus? This has been a point of contention, since today’s Ithaki bears little resemblance to Homer’s description of the island. Enter Robert Bittlestone. He has signed up as project sponsor for a company that specializes in seismic detection, sonograms and the like, […]
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September 5, 2008 What do you pack for a journey around the world? Well, if the year is 1831, guns. Lots of them. Charles Darwin wrote his sister Susan 177 years ago tomorrow with a packing list for the H.M.S. Beagle voyage, and fears that he’s a bother for asking for more and more stuff. […]
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Salman Rushdie. Noam Chomsky. That guy from “Stuff White People Like.” And now Future Imperfect author David Friedman has journeyed to Mountain View, California to appear on Authors@Google. It’s a great talk! Watch after the jump.
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Thank you, CBS News. On their Political Animal blog, find the whole run-down of contradictions in last night's speech.
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