Lynne Kiesling I am studiously trying to ignore the presidential season, but Alex Massie’s Wodehouse-ian gloss on Hillary Clinton (and, tangentially, Mike Huckabee at the end) really made me laugh, and has enough of a grain of truth in it to be insightful. In my sourer moments I find myself persuaded that Bertie Wooster’s verdict …
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Lynne Kiesling The attention has taken a turn for the literary here in KPLandia … perhaps it’s the upcoming PBS broadcasts of the ITV productions of all of Jane Austen’s novels. Here’s a great find for those of you who like to multi-task and listen to audio books (during exercise, knitting, driving, etc.): LibriVox. LibriVox …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a fun new find on my radar screen: Inkling Magazine (on the hunch that science rocks), and its associated blog Inky Circus. Great, amusing, witty, girly geek chic. In particular check out the entry on their She’s Such A Geek Photo Contest. See, it’s cool to be a girly geek …
Lynne Kiesling How cool is this? Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new version, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the …
Lynne Kiesling A delightful little holiday diversion: T.C. Boyle’s short story I Dated Jane Austen is available to read at his website, complete with woodcut comic illustrations.
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting article on yesterday’s EPA decision not to let a subset of states set carbon automobile emissions caps. This issue has been brewing for a couple of years, with 17 states arguing that the lack of federal activity to set a federal greenhouse gas emission standard means that states can act …
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Lynne Kiesling I firmly believe that retail choice in electricity has instrumental value in and of itself: choice qua choice is a good thing and should be an important policy goal in electricity restructuring, independent of utilitarian evaluations of the outcomes of free choice. There are, though, several ways that free choice and the removal …
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Lynne Kiesling I am late to the party because I was grading last week, but I commend to your attention Ron Bailey’s first, second, third, and fourth essays from the United Nations conference on climate change in Bali over the last two weeks. Ron is a thoughtful analyst of the climate change questions, and that …
Lynne Kiesling I’m not going to go off on a Schroedinger’s cat tangent or anything, but there’s a really neat article in today’s New York Times about the laws of physics. In a nutshell, here’s the dilemma: how do we know that the laws of physics are true? Can we prove their truth in an …
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Lynne Kiesling Check out this Austrialian doctor who has rigged up a Tesla coil Christmas tree! How geekily cool. He even has his own website, of course.
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