Good morning.

1. Apparently those worldly wise multicultural Democrats have never heard of Calvinism. I think they confuse eating strange off-shore cuisines with actually coming to terms with the beliefs of other people.
2. Surprising to whom?
3. Just sucking down Colt-45 malt liquor by the quart.
4. El Alamein and a book.
5. Ya’ Mo-Town Mash or Motown food-group sounds just terrible. Or not. Try again.
6. Flexibility … I can’t imagine what would be broken in me if I got in that position. Or actually, I can, which is worse.
7. Hume. I think the very first is wrong.
8. Over-agressive mental health diagnoses.
9. On stimulus programmes.
10. Touche.
11. And “Forgive me, for I have sinned”, eh?
12. Of the debates and real debates … hmmm, we could have them play chess, run races, shoot trap, lift weights, take exams, work at various tasks and jobs … gosh lots of things.
13. Which.
14. To praise (Caesar), bury or both?
15. Men as priest.
16. A conversation.
17. Words from the dwarf.
18. Liberal everywhere proud that the term Gestapo has been returned to mainstream approved usage. Brownshirts to follow.
19. Words on that debate thing.

Good morning.

1. Keep burning-at-the-stake those who confess and whistleblow … and the outcome will be?
2. My collegiate experience would vindicate that, one caveat, you have to work hard enough at up to going to sleep so that your sleeping self will work on it.
3. I was going to say, alcohol was involved, but the first comments indicates that was not true? However, impairment remains on the table, I should think.
4. Liberals and their hard to shake postulates. (note: this isn’t to say that conservatives, or anyone else, doesn’t have hard-to-shake postulates that are wrong, so don’t go whistling up that tree)
5. A good final send off question. Why?
6. Word search.
7. And a book noted.
8. Make that books noted, here’s another.
9. So, was the health tax on tanning beds a sly stab at the gym membership -> conservative conversion effect?
10. Thumbs up on this end.
11. Today will tell? Uhm, no .. the day that will tell is a Tuesday in early November.
12. Myth and consequence.
13. For the cricket race followers.

Recently there’s been a bit about Ada Lovelace and setting aside a day for noting “important women” in science. Why Ada and not another woman? Some ask, if not Ada, who? I say, not Ada. The only rational choice is Emmy Noether. There was nobody like her. Ever. This started as a comment (at my personal blog) on today’s link thread were this was noted. But it grew into post size, so I’ve promoted it.

The point I’m trying to make if had the name the top 5 most influential people in 20th century physics (ignoring their sex), Emmy Noether would be a top candidate for that list … or possibly even the top 3. The Ada Lovelace thing is for “famous women scientists”. Other names are suggested but … none of which have that stature.  The big question is why don’t people recognize her? Have you heard of Emmy Noether? If not, one might ask is the reason why not due to sexism or anti-semitism (she was a Jew)? Is that a factor? Einstein was a Jew … and it didn’t diminish him .. but it’s a possibility I raise, especially noting in the 30s and 40s anti-Semitism was far more common than it is now.

One other possibility was that it was territorial, i.e., Noether wasn’t a physicist. One might think that it’s embarrassing (for physicists) that one of the biggest theoretical discoveries in your field to be made by some one who just stopped in looked at the maths in your playground for a bit and said, you know “I had this little idea, so I wrote it up.” And subsequently this little paper becomes the cornerstone of your whole science for the next century and counting. In part this is why I find the “Ada Lovelace” kind of thing questionable, there isn’t any question of who the most important women thinker/scientist of the last N years has been, where N is a number larger than 100 (1000? or 10000?). There’s only one candidate, and the other question might be was there anyone male or female who was more influential … perhaps there’s a short short list.  There is not a single other woman who has dominated two separate fields of study and wrenched them both around in such a fundamental way. What men might you make the same claim for, what male scientist revolutionized two separate scientific fields? If you think there is a better candidate, put that name out there .. link or comment .. your choice.

So, was it scientific jealousy? Anti-Semitism? Or sexism? Or something else?

My commenter (this started as a comment response), noted he watches Discover/Cosmos type shows. So, in the nature of a quick “Cosmos” style precis, where does Ms Noether’s work fit in the grand scheme of things? (that explanation goes below the cut) Read the rest of this entry

Good morning

1. Hook it up to a nuclear power plant and bingo, the putative excess CO2 problem bites the dust.
2. More girls gallivanting about (at high speed).
3. Zanzibar.
4. Is killing? More like is the essence of.
5. Chaos and beauty.
6. Liberal dis-enchantment.
7. Why the tax/math claims against Romney don’t have bite. The other reason is that when Mr Obama cites “my plan” … the plan of which he speaks are the budgets he sent to Congress that didn’t even get Democrats to vote for it in the House. Realism not.
8. A song for your day.

Gotta run. Have a good one.

Good morning. Well, fortunately the hotel wifi is up to snuff.

1. A political “heh”.
2. Water water everywhere. And not enough human industry and too too much salt.
3. Of women, rights, and stupid faux vaginas. Touche.
4. Power and a girl (in a speaking of which sort of way).
5. Abortion and the campaign.
6. And nobody spent any effort refereeing it, obviously.
7. Paternalism comes to bio-ethics and economics.
8. Three on Benghazi from the shadow folk, one, two, three.
9. The other way to win a bike race.
10. Apparently single mothers in Black urban communities are rare. Or not.
11. ’cause the media is unbiased. Riiight.
12. Who needs security anyhow.
13. Let’s end with some zoooom.

Good morning.

1. Balance.
2. Not crying over split milk, it’s the thumb. Deal with it.
3. Cardboard and the bike. More here.
4. How times have changed, gosh now it’s acceptable to hate men. Seems to me the problem is the who it’s the verb.
5. Nature + industry = art.
6. Meta linking.
7. I wonder why Ms Lovelace has captured the imagination in a way Ms Noether hasn’t. The latter was a far more prominent and influential modern intellect. Is it anti-Semitism?
8. That question in itself answers this question.
9. Art as societies mirror or not.
10. Ya want full employment? Easy, remove (almost all of) the safety net. Poof, even those well paying jobs in the Dakotas and coal industry our 20 somethings won’t touch will be taken.
11. Not necessarily for the young at heart, just the young hearts.
12. A crisis from a different point of view.
13. It’s not stealth, it’s right there out in the open.
14. Syrian WMD.

Well, yesterday my parents were in town for their last day on this trip … and I had the morning off from work. That’s my excuse for not posting links and I’m sticken to it.

1. The earth as a smallish sphere, before you jump.
2. Is that a Halloween thing?
3. So, what is she taking the blame for? Failing to boost security, which could be an honest mistake, or what really needs blame assigned, the pack of lies in the cover up. Which?
4. Purging the records, documents, and 1984.
5. The press shielding Islam. Cui bono?
6. Of Islam, Scandinavia, and guns.
7. More stuff to process for the overworked Biden defenders.
8. I’ve a two part solution, work to make Internet anonymity more difficult and legalize dueling. So, do you have a better solution?
9. Marketing fail.
10. Of Science Fiction and personhood.
11. Moneyball and education.
12. A vote that will not be counted. Illinois, with the Chicago population dominance, will not be a close race … and absentee ballots are only counted if the number of those ballots could make a difference. They won’t so it won’t. The only chance is is some regional race is close in her district, which is iffy.
13. Talking to that rare undecided voter.
14. 16 years of not-warming and counting.
15. The affirmative action disadvantaged minority.
16. Late spring snow down under.
17. “What they were smoking?” … it’s not about smoking it’s about epistemic closure and the liberal news cocoon.

Good morning.

1. Will not make the evening news cycle.
2. A libertarian considers the candidates.
3. So does Ms Paglia.
4. Ah, don’t worry most of his base still believes his dissembling. So if you wonder why politicians lie so much, it’s because it works.
5. Civilization failing in Southern California. Question is, will it spread?
6. Add a way to kick back troubles for sponsors if the sponsered get in trouble and I’m in.
7. East meets sort-of-East.
8. Works for geese and cyclists.
9. Weight and the battleship.
10. On Afghanistan.
11. Not a salad, sorry.
12. Who petitions for a C compiler?
13. So, the bin Laden killing was an assassination, de facto if not de jure.
14. Adverts for science, well, maybe not science but just weird datum.
15. Zooom. Now mothballed by the way.
16. Speaking of zooom.
17. So, I guess one question is the delay ordinary or unusual? If it’s unusual, why, cui bono?

17 points … 17 by the way is the “standard random number” a concept which bugs my more mathematically minded daughter.

Good morning.

1. For those who believe polls are useful tools.
2. Center of mass and the bullet.
3. More grist for the drone/symmetry discussion.
4. Trust, equilibria, and the economy.
5. The Arab “Spring”, which still demands the scare quote.
6. A gift, response and interview.
7. How not to avoid negative propaganda.
8. Mr Obama’s ironic “you’re not being specific” critique, which alas was probably not intended as irony … but there you are.
9. Speaking of irony. What’s a mass murderer have to do these days, eh?
10. Japan and Guadalcanal.
11. Two phrases that should never appear together “humungus challenge” and “toilet availability”.
12. Unscientific poll.
13. For the uniformed the reason for the criticism is the former President met with the families instead of sending a form letter. It’s about contrast.

Good morning.

1. An unfortunately named insurgency/terror group folds.
2. Of reward and result.
3. And buzzword compliance.
4. The bike and the bike.
5. Somebody (Worx) is betting silly sells.
6. Our job is set ahead of us, to whit that growth, which we need to fight tooth and nail.
7. And why? To stop advances in medicine like this one.
8. And to prevent this sort of thing from becoming the norm. Excellence? Put a stop to it right now.
9. Thinking people need no longer apply.
10. Some words on that thing which has a first order effect on our climate, unlike CO2.

Well, at first I was out this morning but thing happened and I’m back ensconced in my office nest.

1. Dostoevsky and Chavez.
2. Giddyap.
3. Incitement with purpose.
4. A Democrat slips his chains.
5. Palestine using drones?
6. Hmm.
7. Noted at the High Court.
8. Is this right? And … do ya think the same would occur if the shirt was plugging the other party?
9. Is this a plug for nuclear power?
10. Ethics and study.
11. Putting the “employment uptick” in context. More here.
12. China’s Solyndra problem.
13. Pedestrians and the roundabout.
14. On bicycles and helmets. I’ll add in at least one crash I experienced in a race, I definitely felt the helmet smack very hard into the asphalt and it cracked. I suffered no concussion and was unharmed (except for the usual road rash). I credit the helmet.  If you crash and you have a helmet, replace it even if you think the helmet looks fine.
15. Of online morals debates.
16. The Chicago way.
17. Ms Warren and her legal practice.
18. Japan and the single life.

Ooh, in the office today … for a while.

1. The debate as seen by/from France.
2. Garbage.
3. Porn of sorts, here and here.
4. Automation, why food, clothing and other goods are is cheap today while medical care remains expensive.
5. Irony and wit from Iran — really.
6. Why would an incumbent admit to burying and ignoring the majority of his listeners? Oh, who was it? Never mind.
7. Obamacare looking more and more like a cunning plan.
8. A report on the beginning of the debate from an academic sociopath.
9. He watched something else, I read books and worked out.
10. Libya.
11. Einsteins most famous equation (relation?) revisited.
12. Remember more detainment means you don’t have to kill them all. So why is less detainment seen by the left as more ethical?
13. A book noted.
14. Mr Obama and his Volt.

Well, … life intrudes.

1. Ah, some suggestions for Mr Romney for the first debate.
2. On those cricket races.
3. So, still no mention of the magical Obama roadmap to a nuclear (weapon) free world.
4. (One) Religious freedom returns to Germany.
5. Death of a bad man noted (HT: CB)
6. “Call me a Luddite” … no I’ll call myself confused as to why the person named as the architect of one of the reasons for the success of the 9/11 attacks still has a job in Washington (recall her “wall of separation” between agencies was one of signal factors blamed for our failure to detect the actors).
7. Let’s re-write history … or not.
8. Flower children.
9. A book noted.
10. Land of the free? Or incipient police state.
11. When speaking with others.
12. A question not answered well to my knowledge.
13. Administration lies and the liberal echo chamber hasn’t noticed.

Drones. In the past years we’ve been using Predator drones and the like more and more to effect our will in unsafe territories. Dones have the advantage of not endangering US life and are very effective, but on the other side of the coin are very bad press for the US in those regions they are used and often cause civilian casualties. Drones have been used attacking targets in countries with which we are not at war.

Question: What principle decides when and were to use drones in neutral countries and how does that principle apply when considering other countries using the same rational to fly drones against targets in the US?

Good morning. So, last weekend we toured (one) school in the process of getting my #1 daughter into college. She’s very much down on the Jr college->4 year college route.

1. Regarding the “open the window” kerfuffle.
2. Still a Deda fan.
3. Drone use.
4. Missing the point, it seems to me.
5. Bang … or … Snblorg!
6. Losing the committed left.
7. and those committed left polls.
8. Of charter and union.
9. Innovation in China.
10. Fer your continuing education, an introduction to three seminal papers by a really really smart fella.
11. Changing pedagogy.
12. Disproving the “there are no dumb questions” postulate.
13. Raising of the taxes in recession, Mr Obama did.
14. Will elicit a notable reaction from Ms Minerva, I suggest.
15. Demographics and history lessons.
16. Of Mr Obama and Iraq.
17. Ms Warren’s litigation history and unions.
18. Blogging in Vietnam, unsafe at any speed.