‘It got nowhere near the publicity and caused nowhere near the stir of his 1995 essay “Bowling Alone,” about Americans’ increasing social isolation. But more recent work by the Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam is perhaps more controversial: his finding (2007 lecture here) that ethnic diversity isn’t an unqualified good — that diversity, “at least in the short run, seems to bring out the turtle in all of us,” as we withdraw from collective life, hunker down in front of the TV and distrust people around us, regardless of skin color.’ (New York Times )
Daily Archives: 13 Sep 09
The Electromagnetic Pulse Debate
“Electromagnetic pulses — high-altitude bursts of radiation that could disable power grids and cripple modern life over wide areas — are a security concern. But right and left disagree on how plausible, or far-fetched, the threat is.” Idea of the Day Blog – NYTimes.com.
New Theory Nixes “Dark Energy”
Is Time Disappearing from the Universe? “Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical new theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years.” (Daily Galaxy)
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