Gordon's Notes

History worth revisiting .

Salon has more details on how and why Kilo company cracked at Haditha: "You want to shoot them" | Salon News ...Lance Cpl. Roel Ry...

Congrats and thank you to my House representative, Betty McCollum of Minnesota (Democrat). She voted against the recently passed toxic bill ...

The best analysis I've seen thus far on Zarqawi's death is from from Back to Iraq 3.0 . Chris has been pessimistic about the future ...

I stopped seeing patients about 7 years ago, but towards the end of my clinical career I started using cyanoacrylate to close wounds. What I...

Gomers like me often comment about how our children are puzzled by bits of old technology, like rotary phones, typewriters, record players, ...

Don't take pictures that are too good. You may not be able to print them . On a related front, campaign donors have once again snuck a c...

The early women's suffrage movement, I recall, had its share of eccentric personalities. A mainstream gentleperson of the late 19th cent...

Three alleged humans have solved a five dimensional Rubik's "cube" . A solution takes "thousands" of twists. I'd...

Researchers of memory now think of it in terms of relational and feature memory. Sounds good to me. I've long thought I was pretty good ...

A mile beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet . Theory is that a 30 mile meteor smacked the earth 250 million years ago, splitting Gondwana...

I find this oddly revealing, and a bit poignant. I'd noted earlier that one good feature of the Da Vinci code is that it's causing ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a rigorous thinker. His writings on autism are perfectly awful. So I'd prefer to have read about GOP election...

Charles Stross blew me away when he casually linked to BYTE's 1996 Hyper-G article. Hyper-G was Gopher's answer to the web ... ...I...

Charles Stross writes science fiction. He's terribly bright. He's written a short essay on how identity cards , like our REAL ID, wi...