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O’Rourke explores the NYT’s alternate universe
P.J. O’Rourke uses a Weekly Standard column to document his recent trip to the world inhabited by the staff and readers of the New York Times. Do parallel universes exist?…
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
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Is There an Empiricist in the House?
Saith the Smoky Mountain News: Fears that a controversial economics policy center coming to Western Carolina University will be a vehicle to advance conservative, laissez-faire market theories have been partially…
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Ponderous
Yesterday, I was reading about Henry Ford’s Village Industries project. Once again, Ford is a hero of mine because I choose to admire the good in people, rather than disregarding…
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The importance of glass
John Steele Gordon offers Barron’s readers a history lesson involving glass. Monks had known for some time that a piece of glass that was curved on one side magnified the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Barron’s D.C. man rewrites the laws of physics
Jim McTague of Barron’s focuses his latest “D.C. Current” column on Washington gridlock. Ah, Washington! We have our own, twisted version of Isaac Newton’s famous third law: For every action,…
Energy
Historian Gordon profiles ‘first great man of science born of the working class’
John Steele Gordon shares with Barron’s readers a profile of Michael Faraday. [I]f he had little formal education, he was a voracious autodidact. Apprenticed to a bookbinder at age 14,…
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Williams offers a word of caution about experts
Walter Williams reminds readers of his latest column that expert opinion is not synonymous with fact. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the…
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To Do Durgs or Not To Do Durgs
This reminds me of the days when I used to teach. After working in a couple private schools, I decided I needed more of a challenge and went to teach…
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God-of-the-gap
Gravitational force has been a mystery to science probably even before Newton quantified it. Newton Mechanics, utilizing the quantification of gravity, helps to explain simple motion in current time. But…
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Who Was John Locke?
One of the “three greatest men that have ever lived,” according to Thomas Jefferson. On a holiday visit to Monticello in Charlottesville, I was delighted to see a portrait of…
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This Theory Blows
A Russian scientist says the God who created the heavens and the earth needed a shallow reef and a stiff wind to part the Red Sea and get the Jews…