Mediocrity
Muddling Toward Mediocrity by Matt Welch. If there was any recent political decision more opaque than Supreme Court Justice John Roberts’ tortured-if-fascinating majority decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, it might be German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sign-off Friday on a [...]
Higgs
About That God Particle… by Jeffrey Weiss. Through the magic of Internet streaming, I got to watch most of the presentation from Switzerland about the evidence for the Higgs boson. Unless I missed it, none of the scientists used the [...]
The Tour
How Demanding Is the Tour de France? by Chris Abbiss. The Tour de France – currently underway – has long been regarded as one of the most demanding endurance events in sporting history. But what does that mean in physical [...]
Lost
Browse inside Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America—and Found Unexpected Peace by William Lobdell.
Skeptic
If You Want More Higgs Hype, Don’t Read This Column by John Horgan. So it’s finally, probably, maybe, happened. Although they are still hedging a bit, physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced this morning that they [...]