Archive for February 3, 2010

Truth in Snark: Justice Stevens on Corporate Personhood

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics. [US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, dissent to majority opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, quoted by Mary Hall, State of the Union: Obama Walking in the [...]

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Posted on February 3, 2010 at 19.58 by jns · Permalink · One Comment
In: All, Common-Place Book, Current Events, Feeling Peevish

Special Relativity: A First Reading List

A long-time friend of mine, quite inadvertently and perhaps to his lasting regret, brought up the subject of special relativity : we briefly touched on the idea central to special relativity that the speed of light (in vacuum) is constant (as measured) in every inertial reference frame.* At first hearing it's a rather unsettling idea, [...]

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Posted on February 3, 2010 at 19.37 by jns · Permalink · One Comment
In: All, Books, It's Only Rocket Science