More on black and white physics 14 Jul 200818 Sep 2017 Language Log has a very nice summary of the reasons why some holes are black, and some are white. Humor Politics Race and politics
Humor Amusing typogarphical errors – 5 30 May 2009 It’s been a while since I made a typo that was funny or deep, so I’ll have to make do with this one: Misquotoes: Annoying quotes taken out of context to mean something other than what they originally meant; a bug in language use that can bite the user. Read More
Humor Stupidity 30 Nov 2009 Stupidity and Ignorance, Be you our buffers ’mid mischance; Endoctrine us to do your will, And other stupid people kill; Fool us with hope of Life to be, Great god to whom we bow the knee, —STUPIDITY. Stupidity, by Robert Services Read More
Freedom The place of religion in democratic secular countries 19 Feb 201519 Feb 2015 There is a religion which oppresses women, which is enthusiastically adopted by marginalised groups, which hates democracy and which has declared the modern world to be a heresy they call “Americanism”. This religion, which is run entirely by men, demands of its adherents loyalty to a small group of clerics… Read More
Spellcorrecting and adding publisher and ISBN to what I said on the linked-to blog: As a student of a student of John Archibald Wheeler, whose death I mourned earlier this year, I could not help but notice this Australian novel of Science Fiction: Striped Holes, by Damien Broderick, NY: Avon, ISBN-13: 9780380753772 ISBN: 0380753774