At long last, the various executives (state, county, and city) have agreed on a plan to replace the aging and damaged Alaskan Way Viaduct on Seattle's waterfront. They've chosen the Bored Tunnel Hybrid Alternative. See this page for more details, especially this PDFHighlights ( Read more... )

So, should we amend the Constitution to change how the office of President works?

Garrett Epps of the Atlantic think so.What do you think? Is Article II outdated and vague? Should the President ( Read more... )

“A man without history is a man without humor,” said Galal Amin, an economist and author who has written about Egypt’s modern decline. “A man with history is more likely to have humor, because he is more likely to see the irony in things, how things were and how they turned out to be. And patience ( Read more... )

Seattlites: WSDOT has released a bunch of information about their eight proposals for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct. They've got a bunch of concept photos and a detailed traffic impact analysis report.

Which option is your favorite? (I still need to digest all this info.)

Sticky tape generates X-rays (Nature)

From a Strip of Scotch Tape, X-Rays (New York Times ( Read more... )

Science!

"Like a life without music, art or literature, a life without science is bereft of something that gives experience a rich and otherwise inaccessible dimension."

Web Start-Up a Joint Israeli-Palestinian Venture

I love the graffiti on the wall between them.

A team at HP has constructed a working memristor.A memristor is an often overlooked circuit element on par with the more familiar resistor, capacitor, and inductor. It has properties that cannot be constructed from any combination of the other three, and thus the ability to actually construct one (or, many, as the team at HP did) should enable the ( Read more... )

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't a vast right-wing conspiracy led by the Pentagon.

zunger, this is for you: http://xkcd.com/397.