Sunday quick glances

Dave Schuler May 29, 2005

It’s a quiet Memorial Day weekend in the blogosphere. There are still a few things worthy of your attention:

If you missed it on ABC’s This Week, don’t miss Georgette Frank’s Memorial Day remembrance. Ms. Frank’s son Lance Cpl. Philip Frank was killed by sniper fire in Iraq on April 8.

A Fistful of Euros is covering the French referendum on the European Union constitution.

Mark Thoma of Economist’s View has a verrrry interesting aggregation of MSM links. There’s a big chunk of articles on China and articles on bubbles, the labor market, health care, and much more.

Steve Antler of EconoPundit has a rather interesting post on global warming for you. While we’re on the subject let me make an observation: if you heat water that’s at 90°F 10 degrees you get hotter water. If you heat water that’s at 202°F 10 degrees, it boils. The effect depends on how much energy is in the system to start out with. Urbanization in the tropics may well be a different matter than urbanization in a temperate zone.

Pundita has a series of tips on how a U. S. military strike on North Korea can be avoided. I doubt her advice will be taken. As I see it it’s about even money whether the Korean peninsula will be a nuclear-free zone or a Korean-free zone.

Worth taking a glance at!

Sunday quick glances

Dave Schuler April 17, 2005

Here are a few things you might take a glance of today:

The comments to this post on Dan Drezner’s blog has the best explanation of why French voters may disapprove the EU constitution. Bottom line: a) they think it will adversely affect their way of life and b) they dislike Chirac almost as much as we do.

Callimachus of Done With Mirrors has more pictures of his wife belly-dancing. I sometimes wonder how guys as homely as us are lucky enough to marry women who are so beautiful and accomplished.

Francis Porretto of Eternity Road’s day didn’t start out too well.

Some lost classics may have been recovered:

For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure – a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation. If only it was legible.

Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.

There’s lots more. From The Light of Reason via Marginal Revolution.

A lucid description of the Estate and Gift Tax from Max Sawicki of MaxSpeak.

Worth a glance!