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Clash of Civilizations 2.0

Readers will recall that last week's edition of this column ended on something of an intellectual puzzler. To wit: If the Tiananmen Square Massacre narrative that is routinely used to demonize the Chinese government on the world stage is demonstrably wrong (even by...

Episode 355 – The Dark History of the Minimum Wage

Episode 355 – The Dark History of the Minimum Wage

There's something strange about the idea of a minimum wage. It's one of those subjects that everyone has a strong opinion about, even if they have no idea what makes actual economic sense. But perhaps the most surprising thing of all is that the minimum wage has a...

Episode 354 – Solutions: Open Science

Episode 354 – Solutions: Open Science

In the face of the crisis of science, it is easy to throw our hands up and watch as the old guard of the scientific establishment circles the wagons and goes back to business as usual. But there are real solutions to these problems, and we all—scientists and...

Episode 340 – Bayer + Monsanto = A Match Made in Hell

Episode 340 – Bayer + Monsanto = A Match Made in Hell

It is hardly surprising that the first thing Bayer did after completing their takeover of Monsanto earlier this month was to announce that they were dropping the Monsanto name, merging the two companies' agrichemical divisions under the Bayer Crop Science name. After...

Coding the Perfect Matrix

In the beginning was The Program. The Programmer made His creation perfect, and when He looked on it He saw that it was so, and that was good. But then it fell apart. You see, Matrix v0.1 was just something thrown together on the weekend for a laugh. Real glitch-y,...