Sean Carroll has been perusing arxiv and finds it instructive that denizens of the steady state theory are still publishing: For those with any lingering doubts, the Big Bang model — the idea that the universe has evolved from a hot, dense, smooth initial state — is correct, and the Steady State model should have… Continue reading

I’m well past the age of the gents in question here, but… it has not been that long since I was in the same phase, and way too much of what’s going on in the ‘dating’ scene now is all-too-familiar.

George Will is even more blunt: The answer? Do nothing that will delay bankrupt companies from filing for bankruptcy protection, so that improvident labor contracts can be unraveled, allowing the companies to try to devise plausible business models. Instead, advocates of a “rescue” propose extending to Detroit the government’s business model for the nation —… Continue reading

Jim Manzi on whether to bail out Detroit’s Big Three auto-makers:Let them Die.

Dogs and Cats Living Together Dept.Well, here’s something guaranteed to drive the PZ-ombies of this world up the wall: Stephen Hawking allowing himself to be blessed by the…the…Pope???!!What is the world coming to! According to John Bohannon in the latest issue of Science (not online for me): Scientists who gathered at the Vatican lastweek for… Continue reading