Again. How far would Obama\u2019s proposal cause total itemized contributions to fall?\u00a0Experts predict\u00a0up to $5.6 billion each year. This is only a small percentage of total annual charitable donations, but it is more than the annual operating budgets of the Ameri\u00adcan Cancer Society, World Vision, St. Jude Chil\u00addren\u2019s Research Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, and the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The case against Obamanomics. \u00a0I still think this is the best one:<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

By 3-5%. This has a lot to do with capacity tightening, and the article doesn’t seem to address gas prices at all. \u00a0Carriers have been loath to expand their fleets, which is going to lead to spot shortages. \u00a0Capacity also isn’t being helped by those new driver rules, which even the drivers don’t like. In […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

China’s asymmetric warfare: By combining the ability to knock down American military satellites, while at the same time launching Internet based attacks at American military, government and commercial Internet activities, China believes it could make up for a lot of current American military superiority. There’s no reason to think that war with China is inevitable, […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Ada Louise Huxtable’s, “Sometime We Do It Right” as a model: But this judgment of the curtain wall is only a fraction of what she has to say \u2014 she\u2019s rewritten her assignment on the fly, because the new building is the least of her concerns. In fact, Huxtable never says the building is good […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

So say their guidelines: NPR’s guidelines promise an end to “he said, she said” journalism that tries to be fair to both sides of an issue. From now on, the network will ask its reporters to be\u00a0fair to the truth: “In all our stories, especially matters of controversy, we strive to consider the strongest arguments […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Given the large jump in unemployment, and the very slow recovery of jobs, long-term unemployment is still a large problem for the economy. A couple of other charts, also from the same BLS data:<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

After having pretended nothing happened from 2005-2010: At issue is the agency\u2019s\u00a0latest five-year Science Report, which lists the world\u2019s major scientific contributions from 2005 to 2010. Among Israel\u2019s many achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, and other sciences during that period, was the Nobel Prize\u00a0in Chemistry\u00a0awarded to\u00a0Yonath\u00a0for her work on ribosome structure. That distinction did not […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Citation fraud: …editors frequently and deliberately force researchers to quote articles that originally have not been considered relevant by them. Usually the editors them them to refer to articles which were published in the very same journal the authors submitted their work to. Wouldn’t be the first time.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Is there anything it can’t do? This experiment consists of a laser beam shaped into an image, such as the letter A. This laser then hits a non-linear crystal, generating entangled pairs of photons that retain this image shape. The set up is such that these photons are then detected, not by conventional detectors, but […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

One-in-eight chance of catastrophic solar megastorm by 2020. Such an extreme event is considered to be relatively rare. The last gigantic solar storm, known as the Carrington Event, occurred more than 150 years ago and was the most powerful such event in recorded history. That a rival to this event might have a greater than […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

You wouldn’t think that a 6th-decimal-place discrepancy in Planck’s Constant would be that big a deal. \u00a0Unless you were trying to standardize the kilogram so you didn’t need to rely on an actual physical object, that is.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

So, is global warming making Everest more dangerous to climb? Or not? Or maybe the sherpas are trying to push through a rate increase.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The Smithsonian will be digitizing a certain amount of their collection, for 3D printing, in much the same way that a fair portion of the Library of Congress has done for images in its American Memory online archive or prints, photographs, maps, etc. And as the printers become more advanced, able to print things that […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n