• Frank Morgan tries to explain how space-time curves.
  • Ariel Ramchandani discovers the joys of bacon.
  • Jenny Attiyeh interviews professor of divinity Harvey Cox and philosopher Simon Blackburn.
  • Images Cinema is reopening. I had no idea it was closed, but yay. Keep up with the renovations on the Images blog.
  • Chad Orzel lays the smackdown on Scientific American for misreporting on quantum tunnelling; a freak ice-storm then promptly destroys everything in his vicinity. Cause and effect? We’re not prone to speculation, but we’re just saying… don’t mess with Scientific American.
  • Sarah Hart created her own half-marathon.
  • Ethan Zuckerman is featured in a fascinating CSMonitor article about the web, serendipity, and homophily.
  • Daniel Drezner thinks that higher education will be another area where the state will be playing a much larger role than it has recently. (I think he’s right, for reasons I outlined here).
  • Derek Catsam argues that piracy is not terrorism, while Ethan Zuckerman provides an extremely informative (as usual) backgrounder on the situation in Somalia.
  • Blair Benjamin argues against diverting resources away from responsible first-time home buyers towards refinancing shoddy existing mortgages.
  • Angela Doyle wonders about a student who “will have his best chance of success at schools that won’t keep him.”
  • Jennifer Mattern writes a poem about her student loans (and other, more important, things).
  • Rahul Shah discovers a site that sells old video games, cheap and DRM-free. I will lose all of my productivity for the next month if I visit this site and it turns out they have Oregon Trail.
  • Eric Smith needs to borrow an axe for what he claims is an innocent “photoshoot”, featuring, as far as we can tell, no actual dismemberment.
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