king of stonehenge. The King of Stonehenge found in a 4,000-year-old grave near Stonehenge may have been from Switzerland and involved in its construction. It is the richest Bronze Age burial found in Britain “off the scale”. …it is fascinating to think that someone from abroad ‰?? probably modern day Switzerland ‰?? could well have […]

Scientists of Very Small Draw Disciplines Together. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, electronics and brain research are converging into a field of science vital to the nation's security. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Technology] oh my, how much do you need, here, we'll just cancel the writing program, ot education, oh, liberal arts has lots of […]

Watch What You Say. If language isn't just the expression of thought, but the raw symbols with which we perform cognitive operations, then we have to allow that freedom of speech is a fundamental prerequisite to our freedom to hold and exchange ideas. No matter what brilliant scheme you've conjured up to save the world […]

Ramsey's World. Ramsey Clark has drafted an Articles of Impeachment… [A Small Victory] it isn't quite the set of things i would put into articles of impeachment, but….

parking spots. You take a toy car, and hold it in such a way so that it looks like it's a real car parked between other real cars, or driving in traffic with real cars. Then you take a picture of it. That's the sublimely simple concept of Parking Spots. [MetaFilter] this is classic, classic […]

More On Impeachment. I've just sent out the following message via email to people I know. It is a followup on my previous post.I have not been one of those who have called for the impeachment of Bush. While I consider him to be the worst President in American history and I consider him to […]

Scott McNealy: Toward Saner Computing. You all know that Scott McNealy is chairman, president, and CEO of Sun Microsystems. So when he decides to write an article, it's worth reading it. sun+java+grid=good computing

GREATEST THREAT TO PEACE. Which country poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? Isn't Time Magazine typically read by real conservative types? I took the informal survey, with about 348,000 other respondents and was surprised by the percentages. [MetaFilter] this should be obvious

Recall that the Budapest Open Access Initiative re …. Recall that the Budapest Open Access Initiative released two guides to open-access publishing last week, one on launching new open-access journals and one on converting traditional journals to open access. It has now amended the copyright pages in each guide to make clear that users have […]

The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and …. The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) is now soliciting grant applications. Letters of intent are due by March 12, and full proposals are due by April 21. [FOS News] where are the social sciences?