Last-Mile Optimism

Reducing Waste. Eliminating Fraud. Promoting Civic Responsibility. At least that’s what the city bureaucrats said.

Why is mercury a liquid?

Victoria Atkinson at Live Science: The strength of metallic bonding — and, therefore, the melting point — also decreases from the top to the bottom of the periodic table, as the atoms get larger. But

Ghost Elephants

Ghost Elephants is a new documentary film directed by Werner Herzog for National Geographic. Here’s the trailer. For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Expl

SchrĂśdinger's War

They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.

Thinking From Within The Ruins

Shahram Khosravi at Cabinet Magazine: Ali Shariati, often regarded as the principal ideologue of the Iranian Revolution, was a student in Paris in the late 1950s when he became involved with the Alger

The Shape of Paris

The Shape of Paris is a balletic short film of skateboarder Andy Anderson zooming, grinding, spinning, and floating around Paris in the summertime. It is also beautifully shot by Brett Novak; Paris ha

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