Good morning. And I don’t know how old the earth is … I was taught (and believe) that every number stated in science needs units (unless it’s dimensionless) and error bars. But an interesting exercise for the  reader is to use make estimates based on things you know to estimate age and error … what do you get and how do you get it? If you can’t get the age, about about some bound like the Parker limit on monopoles? For example, the moon’s spin is synchronized with the earth’s spin. That’s a quadrupole coupling … that should give you a way to make a  lower bound estimate on how long the earth moon have been a system. Right?

1. Union wages and Hostess.
2. Of Mr Gailbraith and the twinkie.
3. Kindergarten humor hits the beltway pressroom.
4. Growsing justly about bad maths pedagogy.
5. High control democracy.
6. Yes, CPT is invariant. This is really nice, because nobody has the slightest idea how what a non-CPT invariant field theory would look like.
7. Our Arab spring notion.
8. Slack cutting and Benghazi.
9. More thoughts on Benghazi here.
10. Where the conflict lies.
11. My guess is … no.
12. Consequences of the victory of the possessors.
13. Note to poster … blood sausage tastes really really good.
14. Reverse the roles of the sexes in assault situations and do you get humor?
15. Stuffers of stockings.
16. Cross (angry?) stitching?

Good morning.

1. The war on terror and the crux of the problem.
2. Brandon has links for meta-thinking (or I’m meta linking his thinks for linking or ( …)). Oh, what the heck just pop over and read away.
3. First rule of bureaucracy, grow grow grow.
4. Some economic considerations of North East corridor and the location (above/under) of power lines.
5. Labor costs and Obamacare. Ooooh, higher labor costs … that will really do wonders for our global competitiveness in the the global labor marketplace.
6. Stewardship.
7. Not enough of the sackings.
8. The other 47%.
9. Two can play that game, no deal if entitlement spending isn’t cut either (and guess what? Only the spending cut will make any difference in budget shortfalls). It remains to be seen whether the GOP can actually play the game.
10. Citizens United is not about corporations = people.
11. Parenting done right.
12. Architectural beauty or not?
13. The Benghazi question (or is it “one of the B questions?).

Good morning.

1. Fighting nature.
2. A milestone.
3. Thick fueled.
4. Low altitude ultrasound in high pressure water.
5. Closet Marxism in the GOP ranks.
6. Drones and carriers. So, are you looking forward to armed drones monitoring your activities?
7. Another note on drones.
8. Wax muscles.
9. Talking budgets.
10. Well, it’s going to be on my Christmas list.
11. A quaint quote, except for the it being all wrong part. If you think Christianity (for example) is there to make you comfortable and sleep easy … you’re getting it backwards.
12. Where charity starts.
13. A book noted.
14. Sorry, I prefer old and unaccountably cheerful.
15. An honest player.
16. Missed in the whole stimulus circus.

Good morning.

1. Remember the Roman priest sex scandals and mentions (and dismissals) of the elephant in the room. Data to back that up (Hat Tip).
2. The real scandal.
3. Photography and the bike.
4. Of supersymmetry and hospitals. So, we’ll all have to knuckle down and become experts and super-Riemannian geometry after all.
5. Before Photoshop … there was actual construction.
6. Pictures to seal your assumptions.
7. For the runner in your life (in the winter).
8. This is stupid. Unsurprisingly the Democrat response was equally stupid.
9. Meandering around austerity.

Good morning.

1. Guys with guns playing with dice.
2. Natural selection and braaaaiiiinzzzzz.
3. Some questions.
4. To go to school.
5. Collapse.
6. Childhood dreams.
7. Orthodoxy in America and its new hierarch.
8. Meta-linking works.
9. Those pretty miserables.
10. That mythical consensus method of doing science needs some work (on that same topic here)
11. Mr Kerry joins the fray.
12. Sorry, mankind includes women, deal with it.

Good morning.

1. Funky shapes in mind-space, but perhaps soon to air-space?
2. High politics becoming similar to autocracies. Will we notice? Will it matter? What will the consequences be? And “shocked”? Seriously?
3. Not thinking it through, specifically “another mystery” is not a mystery. He knew that it wasn’t secure. That’s gotta be a premise. Now follow that thought down the rabbit hole.
4. And finally on that topic … a timeline.
5. Emergency computing resources?
6. Silliness of even/odd rationing.
7. Mr West hasn’t realized that blogs are way cheaper than he thinks. “Serious discussion” don’t cost money and certainly not billions of dollars.
8. Economic growth and its coming scarcity.
9. More related to growth here.
10. Gouging.
11. Hmm, liberte, egalite, and large overflowing buckets of blood from the French revolution becomes …. a new slogan? Probably not the allusion they were going for, eh?
12. Cultural progressions.
13. Some Latin palindromes.
14. Wince.
15. Baggage handlers and thieves.
16. What my book “inbox” would look like too if I hadn’t gone mostly electronic.
17. Zaaap!
18. I’m confused. Isn’t everyone in favor of high skilled immigration?

Good morning.

1. Cooperation + weapons?
2. Talking turkey, err, Turkey.
3. For the soothing of the savage beasties.
4. A home project of interest.
5. An interesting math paper with some social history behind it.
6. A photo … and how the same can be very misleading.
7. Affirmative action and liberal heresy.
8. A film and some backstory.
9. A description of democracy … and I think I have no idea what people mean when they write the word “fascism”.
10. Egypt and the net.
11. A haven for the Tea Party?

Good morning

1. 25 years ago.
2. More damage … to be honest I plan to but have not yet listened to this … I’m thinking this might be grist for our ongoing drone discussion.
3. A big black wall.
4. Some more context for that.
5. Looking forward to another world war, perhaps?
6. Lakes and photography.
7. Seriously though, I think a more important factor would be the man’s wife and children.
8. Yikes.
9. Single payer.
10. You may josh at this ad campaign, but we bought one.
11. The end is (not so very) nigh.
12. Art and the infant.
13. Our system of government described. I said I wouldn’t link any election related material for the remainder of the week. I don’t think that counts, do you?

Good morning. I hope all slept long and well. I didn’t … someone put the thermostat on “hold” and the house stayed warm, which under the covers meant hot … and it never cooled off to comfortable, i.e., under 60.

1. Baby keeps self safe (from vicious ninja attacks?)
2. My two election day links for the rest of the week … and here’s the other.
3. On wealth, words from the 5th century.
4. Curiosity.
5. Solar UV.
6. Not the standard POW fare.
7. Wow. Just wow. …
8. this is not unrelated.
9. I think our discussions on these haven’t stopped. Hopefully. At least our prior conversation established that using a drone is an act of war on the country in which it is used.

Good morning. Have a happy election day, y’all. And no, your vote doesn’t matter, what you are doing is a liturgical communal act validating righteousness of the electoral process.

1. Here’s a prediction from the right what will happen if they lose. Has anyone seen similar predictions from the left?
2. Today we vote, our democratic ritual. About rituals and religion you ask? Here, try this.
3. 10 symmetries. 10 conserved quantities.
4. A house which says a lot about property values (and … not having kids?)
5. People who say “there are no stupid questions” … never attended lectures, but in the meantime …
6. Politicians and their lies.
7. A political scientist offers his two cents.
8. Health and a Fields Medal winner.
9. Speaking of health.
10. A book recommended. I bought a copy.
11. Today the WSJ opinion section has an article pointing out that Dodd-Frank encourages moving high finance overseas … which is interesting in conjunction with this. There’s lots of talk about “unintended consequences” … what is largely ignored are the easy-to-anticipate consequences like these.
12. The auto bailout.
13. Mr Krugman jousts with straw men, but not unnoticed by all.
14. I can’t anticipate any problems with using open unsecured unverifiable mechanisms for voting. Can you?

Good morning.

1. A new blog, focused on science and religion.
2. Wind, waves, or the failed pumps.
3. Mr Obama’s statements on energy.
4. Beauty and image.
5. You could add to that the surprising coincidence that press based polls always show the race tightening as the election nears. Amazing how that coincides with their professional interests.
6. Well, saying such against Serbians is the approved EU bigotry after all.
7. Not. Top. Down.
8. 240mm is big.
9. Our unbiased media … or perhaps … perhaps they are biased after all.
10. Of Mr Obama and the financial crises.
11. Church and state in Poland.

Good morning.

1. Fear of failure … leading to, well, failure.
2. More Benghazi considerations.
3. Golly, I think they should wait another half generation until it becomes really really really obvious what a bad idea this was.
4. So, last week, we wondered why Ada got better press than Emmy … this week it’s Fleming and Florey?
5. The p*rn connection didn’t occur to me, the Kohler “class 5” flush interpretation did. How about y’all? It seems to me neither interpretation isn’t completely disgusting. Is there a non-repulsive way to view that statement?
6. Issues in Asia.
7. City of lights.
8. Yikes.
9. Fine needlework.
10. Perhaps a day late … but Physics meets Halloween and Cthulhu.
11. Woops.
12. Cinema.

Good morning. I hope the storm has passed without inserting too much trouble in the lives of our Northern East Coast readers. For those wish to help those who have been troubled.

1. Meta-links from the Eastern Pacific.
2. Genetically engineering concrete … coming to a road near you?
3. Mixing horse (radish) with booze (rice).
4. Climate change nuts fail to distinguish between storm surge and rising sea levels. What next?
5. Homo Velocipede.
6. Back in the real world, for Christians hating remains wrong.
7. Come on, lucky 13!
8. The Benghazi non-surprise.
9. Separate but equal.
10. Of time, space, and the photo.
11. Photo essay.

Good morning.

1. Badda boom.
2. Badda bing bang biff.
3. After the room has been left.
4. Actually, I think the reason the mainstream pressers haven’t been anthro-warming this thing is that lots of snow is predicted.
5. So, where does e-reading come in?
6. Castle law, ultimately I think I’m OK with this law, how about y’all?
7. Evolution and milk.
8. Evolution and forks.
9. Libya links.
10. Stress and temperature changes.
11. Tools and the artisan.
12. A book noted.
13. After a long day, rest with a hippo.
14. On drones.
15. The testimony of the convict.
16. In the slightly more liberal land than ours.
17. Comparing questions.
18. A heartbeat from the President lurks … what?

Good morning.

1. Note to Mr Obama, tell our allies to f-off … and the might just tell you the same.
2. Penn State visits the UK.
3. “Debate” methodology.
4. Of consequentialism.
5. Of Germany, the EU, ethics and the Bloodlands.
6. Race and UCLA admissions.
7. Of government and their pull in the judicial chambers.
8. Da Chicago way.
9. A little morning Physics.
10. The high court and a case.
11. I bought this dvd for this scene … I’m not sure yet whether my kids appreciate it, alas.
12. Leave ya with a tune. … and an attentive listener?