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One of the last great predictions of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, that the very fabric of space-time can be “dragged” by mass, has been confirmed with higher accuracy (although the team behind the more comprehensive Gravity Probe B experiment is skeptical of this team’s results).

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And now silence. French celebrity philosopher Jacques Derrida has gone off into the great gap in the sky. Like many students who had to read his intentionally obtuse tracts, I found him tedious. The real shame though is that his work was force-fed to students in literature classes—not philosophy classes where he belonged, and where… Continue reading