Today’s Science Friday program was super-timely. The second hour of the show contained a discussion of McCain’s reference to money for the Adler Planetarium as a pork-barrel earmark, and a discussion of promoting innovation in America. Here is the audio: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810244 http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810246 Regarding the projector, I enjoyed one of the […]
Daily Archives: October 24, 2008
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I heard today that Mayor Bloomberg of NY has succeeded in persuading the city council to vote in favor of extending term limits for elected officials [1]. This struck at my moral center for leadership, which I elaborated on a few weeks ago [2] – the Cincinnatus model. Cincinnatus was […]