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The Times Editorial Observer featured Make Magazine’s Mister Jalopy today, who issues a simple request: Please make it easier for us to tinker with your stuff. Yes, many of us marvel at technological wonders, but others want to engage it, play with it, and even make it better. ‘Mister Jalopy’s latest mission is taking the […]
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A nice showing by both indeed. US came #1 by total – 110 medals in all, with China leading in Golds. Great Britain showed an impressive #4 overall, beating out the rest of Europe. The home office should be proud.
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Charles on the American Civil War Darwin writes the great American botanist Asa Gray during a turbulent point in American history. Darwin’s feelings on slavery were very pronounced; ever since his Beagle voyage saw witness to a great deal of slave brutality. The Maryland slaves that he refers to were not freed, since the state […]
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From Flynn’s ordered-government liberalism, we turn to Future Imperfect author and hard-core libertarian David D. Friedman for his views on a very visible political party that doesn’t always make traction in the polls, but could this year. Why the change? A bridge in ideology may be the reason. From his blog, Ideas Two Paths for […]
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James Flynn (as in, The Flynn Effect), asks in his latest book: “Where Have all the Liberals Gone?” But what does he mean by “liberal?” Thomas Jefferson Without Jefferson, we would not have the lucid statement of the ideal that binds Americans together: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created […]
Read MoreAugust 19, 2008 No, the other one. Everyone is busy counting the US-China contest for medals. Rightly so; it’s close. Here in the New York office, we’re watching a different set of numbers: Now, I’m all for rooting for the home office, but that would be unfair; we have branches around the world! After this […]
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[Update: take our poll below!] How to reduce your carbon footprint? This time, the answer is drink your wine from a box! ‘ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government’s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes. That’s right, Italian wine is going green, and for some connoisseurs, […]
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