No top billing today – just an array of interesting links.<\/p>\n
Nick Carr<\/a> -“<\/strong>Von Ahn’s Gwap<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n All of us may someday teach a computer to be smarter than…well…all of us.<\/p>\n DANGER ROOM<\/strong><\/a> -“Secret Strobelight Weapons of World War II<\/a>”<\/p>\n There’s actually quite a few bizarre, experimental, weapons of this period that never quite made it to the “big time” without a military-industrial complex to push square pegs into round holes.<\/p>\n Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/a><\/strong> -“Barnett: What will America do when Iran gets nuclear weapons<\/a>?”<\/p>\n Tom argues that the Osirak option is not going to work with Iran and we need to jump down the road to a different dynamic.<\/p>\n Progresive Historians<\/a><\/strong> (Robert Ellman<\/strong>) – “An Interview With Iranian Expert and Journalist Barbara Slavin<\/a>”<\/p>\n Thought this fit well with Tom’s aticle above as\u00a0 Slavin has a new book on Iranian-American relations out. I need to expand on my comment about Mosadegh that I left there sometime later today.<\/p>\n Wizards of Oz<\/a> –<\/strong> “Thermodynamics & Resilience<\/a>”<\/p>\n Shane puts on his particle physicist’s cap and\u00a0tackles John Robb’s latest work in progress on resilient communities<\/p>\n Small Wars Journal<\/a><\/strong> – “Third World Experience in Counterinsurgency<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n COIN by a Soviet proxy state intervening in another state.<\/p>\n Michael Gove MP<\/a><\/strong> -“Various interesting science and technology<\/a>” and “Various interesting science and technology (2)<\/a>”<\/p>\n Featuring a Kurzweill link.<\/p>\n Charles Murray<\/strong> -“The age of educational romanticism:On requiring every child to be above average<\/a>”<\/p>\n The author of The Bell Curve<\/u><\/em><\/strong> and Losing Ground<\/u><\/em><\/strong> joins the growing conservative activist chorus against No Child Left Behind<\/strong>. Hat tip to The Fourthcheckraise<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Bruce Kesler<\/a><\/strong> -”\u00a0New GOP: Freedom Vs. “Biggies”<\/a><\/p>\n Bruce calls for a seamless garment conservatism.<\/p>\n CTLab<\/a><\/strong> -“Smuggler’s\u00a0Round-Up<\/a>”<\/p>\n A grab-bag on the sherpas and mule-drivers of Black Globalization.<\/p>\n Quadrant<\/em> Magazine<\/strong> -“Will China Fail?”<\/a><\/p>\n