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A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in… Read more.
I pledged over a year ago to eschew commenting on this presidential campaign because nobody can do so without compromising his dignity. I trust the reason for this is self-evident. I have essentially honored my pledge, despite constant entreaties from friends, real and virtual. But sometimes the entreaty was too much. Such was the case… Read more.
For years, I’ve been decrying the hot air that passes for smart talk at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here – from “Why All the Fuss about the World Economic Forum,” January 30, 2006 – is a sample of the informed contempt I developed over a decade ago. _________________ The World Economic Forum … is… Read more.
The National Anthem Whitney Houston set what might be an unsurpassable bar with her rendition at Super Bowl 25 in 1991. But, arguably, Lady Gaga came as close as any singer has since then. Of course, you can be forgiven if you were surprised – not just by how elegant she looked, but also by… Read more.
Watching a Bloomberg Politics breakfast with Team Clinton yesterday, I got the impression I was spying on a secret meeting of an all-white book club. SMH. “With all due respect,” I’m feeling the Bern more than ever today. I would like nothing more than to see Bernie do to Hillary in 2016 what Barack did to her… Read more.
Five years ago, Julian Assange commanded such media attention, you’d have thought he posed the greatest threat to the United States since Osama bin Laden. Yet media mentions of him soon became as noteworthy as those of Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolph. Exactly. As it happens, I’m on record not only decrying the cause celebre… Read more.
The World Health Organization [WHO] declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency on Monday, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak and gives countries new tools to fight it. An outbreak of the Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, was detected in… Read more.
The migration crisis is only the latest issue threatening to blow the European Union asunder. From “Brexit” to “Grexit,” respective countries are chipping away the categorical imperatives of integration by reasserting the political imperatives of sovereignty. In fact, more and more Europeans are longing for the days when the EU functioned primarily as a trading… Read more.
