A fine rant from Peter Watts on how politicians’ disdain for science reflects the dismal disconnection from reality exhibited by policy makers:
In other words, both Law and Economics are human artifacts. They’re like Gibsonian cyberspace, a consensual hallucination that only works because everybody agrees to stay inside the playground. They’re Klingon Summer Camp, they’re Dungeons [...]
Terror hits the silent shores of the Sinai peninsula. Random sources speak silently the name al-Qaeda and important people call Egypt to give their condolences.
And to think just last night I was having a wild fantasy of dropping work and shooting my fat ass all the way down to the city of Eilat and to [...]
You can’t ignore all of the mass that happens lately because of the new elected parties. If the days before the elections are days of hypocrisy and fake smiles. The days after the elections are the days when the real faces of the people do come out to play. Of course I’m speaking [...]
The ride to work today went with no special events, the radio was open on Galey-Tzahal (96.6FM) and Golan Yochpaz talked to Ethan Ka’bel (the secretary-general of the political party Avoda). Golan was heavily attacking Ethan and somehow Ethan got away from all of the real questions with stupid answers such as, ‘why are you [...]