Archive for October 27th, 2008
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Annals of the easily amused.
They’re harvesting the corn in the huge field across the road, which reminded me of this article: Anyone with normal hearing can distinguish between the musical tones in a scale: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. We take this ability for granted, but among most mammals the feat is unparalleled. This finding is [...]
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precrimination
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A war that cannot be won.
But which Obama looks forward to pursuing “the right way.” There is no right way. There are only slow learners. The Duke of Wellington was a cantankerous reactionary but he knew a thing or two about Afghanistan: “a small army would be annihilated and a large one starved”. On 13 January 1842, a sharp-eyed sentry [...]