Here is a picture of the electric field of a charge, let go from rest and falling onto the cosmological horizon (located at R=1 on the graph).


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This one is dedicated to Andy.

And, on the first day of the New Year, real life begins.

Meanwhile, the end of an era.

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So J got me digging around trying to figure out exactly how "poverty" is defined.

As far as I can tell, the answer is: in 1963, a Social Security statistician (Mollie Orshanky) took the Agriculture Department's estimate of the amount of money needed to feed a family on a very economical dietary plan, and multiplied by three.  This number was the ( Read more... )

UT Theory group in the blogo(meta-)newsphere.

Officially pretentious on the internet. http://danielcarney.wordpress.com

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Opinions needed: is italicizing non-english words necessary?  I kinda feel like it just highlights the fact that I'm going to use something pretentious, but it looks weird to write

There is no reason a priori for the state to....

compared to

These is no reason a priori for the state to....

What the original real scientist wanted to do with science.

Pretty awesome.  "Freedom from Necessity of much Sleeping exemplify’d by the Operations of Tea and what happens in Mad-Men."

Stratfor has a really nice article discussing the development of US containment policy in south/southeast Asia.  China's export model desperately requires as much control over the South China sea as possible, which is surrounded by countries that the US is trying to (re-)engage.


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