Physicists aren’t often reprimanded for using risqué humour in their academic writings, but in 1991 that is exactly what happened to the cosmologist Andrei Linde at Stanford University. He had submitted a draft article entitled ‘Hard Art of the Universe Creation’ to the journal Nuclear Physics B. In it, he outlined the possibility of creating
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It’s no news that millennials are more financially strapped than other generations. As Forbes reported last year, large percentages of them are struggling to gain “financial independence,” and as a result, are forced to rely on their parents for support. Naturally, older generations are quick to point to such stats with disdain and shake their
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This spring, PBS has been airing a three-part documentary series, “School, Inc.“, spotlighting some of the successes of education choice and free-market schooling options around the world. “School, Inc.” is the brainchild of Andrew Coulson, an education policy researcher who left a successful career at Microsoft to answer a perplexing question: Why is it that
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The horrifying scene at a practice field in Alexandria, Virginia, at which Congressman Steve Scalise was shot in a shocking flurry of gunfire, could have been much worse. Rand Paul pointed out that “it would have been a massacre” had a member of the House leadership not been there. His presence guaranteed that the heavily
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Some readers may be familiar with the weird saga unfolding at Evergreen State College, where a progressive biology professor named Bret Weinstein recently was greeted outside his classroom with chants of “racist” and “white supremacist” by some 50 students. Weinstein’s crime was to go to work one day despite a request by a student
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., was shot and wounded early Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, when a man opened fire at Republican lawmakers and staff during a practice for a congressional baseball game. Scalise, shot in the left hip while at second base, was listed in stable condition at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he
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