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Should India Build a Beachfront Nuclear Power Plant?
The Debate: How to calculate, and engineer, for risks like this Last week, somewhere between two and eight thousand people revived protests against a beachfront nuclear power station, scheduled to open...
View ArticleJournalists: Why Do We Even Bother?
Why am I even writing this? Odds are that you, dear reader, don’t believe a word journalists like myself have to say. A new Gallup poll finds that “Americans’ distrust in the media hit a new high this...
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Social Sciences Fact Check: Romney’s Debate Dig at Spain
Lavish Spanish spending. Feeds six. Here’s a quick fact-check on Mitt Romney’s mid-debate comment last night, that the US doesn’t want to go down the same economic road as faltering Spain:...
View ArticleFetishizing the Bayonet
The blog-it, tweet-it, talk-about-it moment of the final presidential debate of 2012 involved, of all things, bayonets. Monday night in Boca Raton, Florida, when Republican challenger Mitt Romney...
View ArticleThe Rich Vote Different, Too
Lining up at schools and churches to cast a vote is strictly for the 99 per cent. In Los Angeles’ exclusive Bel Air and Brentwood neighborhoods, as Curbed LA first noticed, well-heeled voters will be...
View ArticleWe’re Shooting More Animals!
This just in: hunting is hot again. After years of decline, the number of Americans taking to the woods to kill critters jumped by over one million between 2006 and 2011, to a total of 13.7 million,...
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Some leftover holiday morsels: Why we still talk about Wittgenstein (Hint: It’s not just his brains). To end the concussion crisis, we need to figure out how to stop “rotational acceleration” of the...
View ArticleSuper Bowl: Are American Sports Fans the Classy Ones?
This weekend’s Super Bowl promises to offer excess, violence and, if history is a guide, not much of a game. But what it won’t show is hundreds or thousands of fans screaming racial insults at the...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary, Dude: The Big Lebowski Turns 15
Wednesday marks the 15th anniversary of the release of The Big Lebowski, Joel and Ethan Cohen’s brilliant, semi-absurdist comedy about a slacker in early-1990s Los Angeles (Jeff Bridges, in one of his...
View ArticleScience Degrees Lacking Among Catholic Cardinals
In terms of their academic pursuits, the cardinals who will choose the next pope are a pretty monolithic bunch. That nugget of insight is courtesy of Anthony Judge, who has created an interesting chart...
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Happy Memorial Day. Thank the Confederacy.
Since the late 19th century the United States has unofficially opened summer with Memorial Day. The barbecues, bringing out the deck furniture, and (apparently) wearing white all occur in conjunction...
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What Your Cell Phone Data Actually Looks Like—and How It Might Be Used...
David Simon, the creator of HBO’s epic series The Wire, has weighed in on the recent disclosure that the National Security Agency has been combing through our cell phone records as part of its...
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The Missus
Editor’s Note (01/20/2014): The primary study upon which this post is based has since been retracted. The Independent informs readers that younger married women on Facebook are less likely to take...
View ArticleThe ‘Like’ Button That Came Before Facebook
Talking back to our broadcast media seems to be an integral part of the early 21st century experience. Hulu is constantly asking me if a particular ad is relevant to my interests. Major news networks...
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The World’s First Earbud Headphones
Earbud headphones of yesteryear (May 1926 Science and Invention) Yesterday Apple announced its latest and greatest in electronic toys and tools. While most tech writers thought the updates were...
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