Month November 2008

Fact checking

Andrew Sullivan and Wonkette are bashing Palin because she told a Black man that she and her husband have to deal with racial discrimination too. In this case, she wasn’t being a nutcase. Her husband, Todd, is a Native Yup’ik…

Nanobama

University of Michigan professor John Hart has made faces of Barack Obama using nanotechnology, specifically carbon nanotubes, and imaged them using a scanning electron microscope. Each face consists of millions of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, grown by a high temperature chemical…

Time to stop hyperventilating…

From Brad DeLong, who also notes. By this evening 3/4 of American Jews will have voted for a guy whose middle name is Hussein: if we cannot use this lever for good in the Middle East, we do not deserve…