Sometimes I wonder how apparently dumb people get to be in positions of such influence. Take, for example, this column by Peggy Noonan, an editor at the Wall Street Journal: During the past week’s heat wave–it hit 100 degrees in New York City Monday–I got thinking, again, of how sad and frustrating it is that [...]
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Peggy Noonan against Science
July 20, 2006
How long of a straw does Dr. Hawking need?
July 10, 2006
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at this conference: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/krauss06/krauss06.2_index.html [LAWRENCE KRAUSS:] I just returned from the Virgin Islands, from a delightful event — a conference in St. Thomas — that I organized with 21 physicists. I like small events, and I got to hand-pick the people. The topic of [...]