Linkmeister

In Memoriam

R.I.P. Stephen Jay Gould. I have only one quibble about the obit..."In 1967, he received a doctorate..." Surely he earned it?

Also in a scientific vein: a conversation with an anthropologist who studies nuclear scientists. I have a college buddy who works for DOE at Los Alamos, so... Seguing neatly (?) into medical history, here's a review of a US smallpox epidemic, 1775-1782. General Washington had a serious problem beyond the British Army, it appears. From science to the arts: here's a thumbnail sketch of some of the films presented at the Cannes Film Festival. (Pick your own language there.) What if art became part of computer security systems, using images as passwords?

Here's a brief history of settlements in Israel; one columnist calls their establishment "suburban colonization". I wonder if the slow- or no-growth movement in the US has yet discovered that felicitous phrase? Here are yet another couple of phrases: "ethnic panic" and "For Netanyahu, by contrast, every Nacht is Kristallnacht." Both lines are from an interesting essay by The New Republic's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier. He argues that there is an unhealthy tendency among some Jews (particularly in the US) to see every affront to Israel or Judaism as a harbinger of doom. The author was interviewed on NPR's ATC today.

Posted by Linkmeister at May 21, 2002 03:23 PM