by Leroy Hurt | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Wall Street Journal: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday came out with a road map for navigating the future of self-driving cars. Roadmap for Self-Driving Cars: Five Highlights – Law Blog – WSJ They’re he-e-e-re.
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and New Criterion: What is a liberal education and what it is for? From Cicero’s artes liberales, to the attempts at common curricula in more recent times, to the chaotic cafeteria that passes for a curriculum in most American universities today, the...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: Systematic search programs have dramatically increased the rate of discovery of NEOs and lowered the risk of impact. As of 1990, only 134 NEOs had been discovered. Today, more than 8,800 have been identified. No large asteroid yet discovered is...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: This is the first book-length treatment (that I know of) of the NEO problem that aims to describe that problem to audiences not familiar with it. It only partially succeeds in doing that, mainly because the writing shifts between popular and...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: the disembodied, instantaneous nature of today’s Internet communication cultivates and rewards acrimony where there should be love. To this point, Alastair Roberts observed in response to a recent blogosphere brush-up an “almost...