Afghan Summer
A suicide bomber detonated his car in the market of a southern Afghan town Thursday, killing 21 civilians and wounding 13 … four Canadian soldiers in a NATO contingent were killed and 10 were...
A suicide bomber detonated his car in the market of a southern Afghan town Thursday, killing 21 civilians and wounding 13 … four Canadian soldiers in a NATO contingent were killed and 10 were...
A very rough estimate might be that the evaluation function [for computer Go] is, at best, 100 times slower than chess, and the branching factor is four times greater at each play; taken together,...
A rather slipshod article in the New York Times about alchemy manages to perpetuate a typical error: it calls Robert Boyle a “British chemist”. This is an error. He was born in 1627 in...
Mel’s Ecumenical Thoughts.
A cell partner turned me on to Scientology. With him and another guy I got pretty heavy into Dianetics and Scientology. Through this and by other studies, I came out of my state of...
Howard Dunbar’s Tanker Truck 6 rolled into the station one chilly night … and then proceeded to unload 7,723 gallons of gasoline and diesel into the station’s underground tanks. It took Dunbar 29 minutes...
Scientists … have been examining the latest preserved prehistoric bodies to emerge from Ireland’s peat bogs — the first to be found in Europe for 20 years. One of the bodies … had raised...
Tragedy visited Qana again Sunday, a once-picturesque village of figs, grapevines and olive trees along rolling, rocky hills where Lebanese believe Jesus Christ turned water into wine for a wedding. It was here on...