Links

— Steve Sailer comments on the tendency of women who are interested in science to go into the “life sciences” (medicine, biology) rather than fields like physics and chemistry.

— Mark Steyn on King John and Barack Obama.

— A “must-know” endgame from Susan Polgar.

Iron Man.

— Walter Williams on guns, and the history of gun violence.

All those books, and nobody even bothers to loot them.

— I’m telling you: graphene.

— PJB on America going to pieces.

A feast for crows.

Lex longa, libertas brevis.

The courtship dance of the coastal peacock spider.

Intellipedia.

Cantabria calamari.

5 Comments

  1. JK says

    The other day I think I mentioned Arkansas was unaffected by the shutdown?

    Well, apparently I missed a little paragraph on page 15 of my local paper. Turns out the boat launch ramps on our area lakes are barry-caded. So … it appears while the locks on the Mississippi are welcoming courtesy of the Corps of Engineers if the boat is shorter than 200 feet, no can do.

    The US Government works in mysterious ways.

    Posted October 15, 2013 at 11:42 am | Permalink
  2. JK says

    Oh. The fish hatcheries are closed too.

    Think Barry, of all the little starving fishies!

    Posted October 15, 2013 at 11:46 am | Permalink
  3. Malcolm says

    Not his fault. Don’t you read the papers?

    Posted October 15, 2013 at 11:51 am | Permalink
  4. Re graphene, the race will be to the swift, as ever. Our clodhopping politicians will be nowhere in sight. Nice to see another fan of Science Daily. It is amazing how much the legacy media depends on this for its science coverage.

    Posted October 15, 2013 at 12:18 pm | Permalink
  5. Malcolm says

    Phys.org has a good newsletter, too.

    Posted October 15, 2013 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

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