A Good Sentence on Foreign Policy “(Good) Foreign policy and military intervention is about figuring out actual intentions and capabilities without making self-fulfilling prophecies.”

Why doesn’t dark matter form black holes? “Dark matter can’t form black holes or other tightly-bound structures because gravity alone isn’t enough to bind something tightly together. Because the force of gravity is so weak, it can only bind it loosely, which means huge, diffuse, very massive structures. If you want a “clump” of something — a […]

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/what-kind-of-blog-post-produces-the-most-comments.html “So much of debate, including political and economic debate, is about which groups and individuals deserve higher or lower status. It’s pretty easy — too easy in fact — to dissect most Paul Krugman blog posts along these lines.”

Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia “Nail’s high-blown lunacy was unexceptional among the SU speakers. What set his enthused disrupto-babble apart was its relative benignity. Later that first morning, however, I felt the tenor of the proceedings change from silly to scary. The turning point came with the onstage arrival of SU past president […]