Very cool. Funny how the human brain evolved this way… ============== Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle .
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Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Focusing On Focus
September 19 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtVery interesting… =========== For most of human history, the progress of knowledge was constrained by a shortage of information. Books were expensive and rare, libraries were reserved for elite scholars and communication was extremely slow. Mail moved at the speed of horses. Now, of course, we live in the age of Google and Amazon Prime, a time when nearly everything ever written can... Read more
How Much Federal Aid Is Too Much?
September 14 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtIs this so difficult? ============== Amity Shlaes points out that after the floods of November 1927 President Calvin Coolidge said in his State of the Union address that “the government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazards of the elements” (“A Tale of Two Vermont Floods, 84 Years Apart,” Cross Country, Sept. 3). Forty years before that, President Grover Cleveland... Read more
Compromise Hasn’t Served Conservatives Very Well — Letters to the Editor – WSJ.com
September 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsSome good responses – especially the first one… ============ Peter Berkowitz cautions conservatives not to demand uncompromising purity from their politicians (“The Myth of Conservative Purity,” op-ed, Sept. 7). Mr. Berkowitz argues that achievement of basic conservative goals requires clarity of principles, but also pragmatism that gives “due weight to settled expectations and longstanding practices” (e.g., public education and state assistance to... Read more
