Fellow, sometime-and-in-some-fashion, academics or others dabbling in paper writing? Dixon looked out of the window at the fields wheeling past, bright green after a wet April. It wasn’t the double-exposure effect of the last half-minute’s talk that...

For the last couple of years there has been talk of a “renaissance” in nuclear power in the United States. The government has issued some loan guarantees to various parties and the greens are starting to come around to nuclear power because of...

“Obama’s lonely decision” may have been the right one — if that’s really what he decided, if he really did decide. That’s the problem. You don’t know with this guy. What he does is so often unrelated to what he says that it’s usually most productive to...

The President of the United States presides over a government that employs a huge number of people who write regulations that either slow down job creation or are actual job killers. In these times of high unemployment, the President could, by...

The Daily WTF is a site that collects programmers’ horror stories. I thought the following horror story provides a good example of why it’s important to double-check the code of scientific software. Long ago, I worked as a programmer at a...