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The Long View 2007-03-09: Physics, Warrior Robots, Glottochronology, & Reforms Good and Bad

High-temperature superconductors are much like nanotechnology: just another kind of vaporware that has gone nowhere. I should probably update my cocktail party theory of why science can’t seem to do anything cool anymore on this in light of an additional ten years of experience. Also interesting to note that

The Flagstaff Dialect

Courtesy of Peter Sean Bradley comes this map of American English dialects. I learned from this map that Flagstaff has a distinctive dialect. A link was provided to an interview with R. Carlos Nakai as an example. I had never heard him speak, so I expected a Navajo accent, but

The Way of the Pilgrim

Way of the Pilgrim By Gordon R. Dickson $4.50; 439 pages I came across Way of the Pilgrim by means of Jerry Pournelle's There Will Be War series. Chapter 2 of Way of the Pilgrim appears in Volume IV: Day of the Tyrant. I thought the story