Elephant In Exile

A little of this, A little of that

Archemedes Screwed?

I caught this show on Nova this week. Fascinating. Seems that Greek Mathematician Archemedes had developed a form of calculus almost 1,200 years before Newton and Leibniz. Unfortunately the only copy of his treatise was earased in the middle ages so that the parchement could be reused for a prayer book. Perhaps if it had survied we'd now be advanced enough so that I could be driving my long desired Jeston's hover car?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/


Media Notes: Washington Post
Is Kerry the comeback kid? Is the race suddenly close? Is Bush blowing the lead?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/

Getting back together is so hard
Fifteen years after the Wall came down, there are still two Germanies

http://economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3204021

In Moderation:
Comparing the Republican Party to its Platform

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?040913ta_talk_hertzberg

Revision Thing
A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies

http://www.harpers.org/RevisionThing.html