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Phronesisaical
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Politics, Philosophy, International Affairs, and Fruit
- Added on: Jun 4th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Helmut
- Listed in: Politics Philosophy
- Tags: travel politics philosophy international criticism fruit
Recent Posts
Hemophilia B Brought Down the Tsars
The same group of DNA analysts that identified the remains of the last Tsar's family have now figured out the genetics of Tsarevich Alexei's hemophilia. It was an A-to-G intronic mutation located three base pairs upstream of exon 4 (intron-exon bound...
Corps of Engineers: Guilty
As bmaz points out, this is potentially an enormous court decision. the decision by Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. in the In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation case is a game changer with immense and far rea...
Tipping Points in Iran
Last week, Haleh Esfandiari spoke in Santa Fe. One of the things she said that particularly struck me was that the participation of women in the demonstrations was something that the regime was not mentally prepared to deal with. The strictures on in...
Present At The Creation
Dean Acheson was President Harry Truman’s Secretary of State. That title, chosen in 1969, still applies. Acheson and Truman helped to build today’s world. Acheson could see some of the results as he wrote, twenty years on.It’s hard to recall or...
Bits and Pieces - November 21, 2009
Essay or novel? Zadie Smith.Congress gets around to considering whether all those military contractors can be held responsible for their actions.Irtysh River, North Kazakhstan, dawn. Imagine a cuckoo and a million other birds singing.Tug of war over ...
Not an Encouraging Development
A while back, I wrote about an interesting little reactor to be marketed by a company that calls itself Hyperion. I had a number of questions, some of which were answered, many not. I also had a reservation about Hyperion's approach to its publicity....
