Last week, 52 Senate Democrats voted to get rid of the filibuster for Presidential nominations to certain positions—in particular for Lower and Appelate Court Nominees, but not for Supreme Court nominees. This move was branded as the "nuclear option" back … Continue reading
Suppose you want to write down the laws of physics. How would you go about it? What? You want to do some experiments first? Forget about that. This is theoretical physics. Let's not worry about pedantic things like what the … Continue reading
A couple posts elsewhere refuting a common Medieval-bashing trope, that the Medieval Church tried to suppress scientific ideas, in a series of mythical conflicts between Science and Religion, by historian of Science St. James Hannam. On the same site, Tim … Continue reading
Sometimes educators talk about "closing the achievement gap" which separates high and low performing students. There are documented gaps in educational outcomes on the basis of e.g. economic classes, race, etc. Some of these gaps lead to serious social problems … Continue reading
But you are not to be called `Rabbi', for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth `father', for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you … Continue reading
...and so, the Judge sentenced the murderer to go to the electric chair. But just then, the Judge's only Son piped up. "Please punish me instead! That way, he won't have to die." Out of his compassion for the criminal, … Continue reading
This finished a bit too late to get into the previous collection of Random Stuff, so it gets to be its own post. A long but fascinating saga by St. Michael Flynn on the topic of what actually went down … Continue reading
I've always thought there was something silly about the librarian festival "banned books week", and this post by St. Darwin explains why. The Game Crafter, a website for designing and selling your own board games. However, there's no need to … Continue reading
So far in my explanation of General Relativity, I've discussed the metric , from which one can calculate the curvature tensor by way of the connection . In practical astrophysical contexts: The metric is related to the gravitational potential at … Continue reading
St. Rollin Weeks writes: As an FMC member, I have attended two of your sessions. I am interested in the prospect of time "before" the Big Bang, Time and Eternity, God's foreknowledge and man's free will, the Arrow of Time … Continue reading