- The Salmond That Slipped Through The Net
Joyce McMillan in the Scotsman on "perhaps the most formidable incumbent politician in Britain, one who had defied the odds to win a stunning electoral victory, largely by offering an optimistic world-view that no other party could match."
- Elections improbability — Gazeta.Ru
Statistical analysis of Duma election results shows how artificial United Russia's success was.
- Maltreating victims may condemn us to the folly of repeating the past « Slugger O'Toole
Anne Travers speaks out.
- The Xinjiang Procedure | The Weekly Standard
"Beijing’s ‘New Frontier’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners." - a horrible story.
- What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
- Relativeren van autisme is in de mode
Great but sobering piece in NRC Handelsblad by Ingrid Robeyns
- What is space exploration worth? - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society
Obviously, I believe NASA is worth the money. But it's such a lot of money that it's difficult to explain briefly why it's worth it. Here's what I think: investing in NASA makes us smarter, improves our lives, and increases our capability to overcome technological challenges. Even more important, though, are the intangible benefits of pride, respect from other nations, respect for our place in the universe, and hope for a future in which we can accomplish even greater things. In this post I'm going to explain why I think these things. This will be an unusually U.S.-centric post for me, but many of the ideas in it apply to other spacefaring nations.
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