Random links
- Where are the robots in Japan's nuclear crisis?
- Funnily enough, despite Japan's investments in robotics over the years it seems that they've needed to turn outside the country to find robots that might be of use in helping to repair their power plants, thereby minimizing exposure to radiation for workers. We'll see what happens there. There may be reactors better able to deal with the problems that the Japanese ones have experienced.
- Why Be Openminded?
- GK Chesterton: "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." (HT: JT)
- Jim Shaw's $16,000-a-day pension
- The Globe and Mail argues to open up the market to foreign ownership, saying that Shaw's "basic margins are much higher than at big U.S. cablecos like Comcast and Time Warner (40 cents and 36 cents, respectively). The story in the old wireline phone business is the same: Bell and Telus enjoy lush profit margins compared to, say, AT&T and Verizon."
- Majority of Muslims want Islam in politics, poll says
- "A majority of Muslims around the world welcome a significant role for Islam in their countries' political life, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, but have mixed feelings toward militant religious groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah." Islam doesn't really seem as easy to put in a separation of
churchmosque and state as in Christianity. Yet I don't really buy the idea of a completely secular state where everyone needs to check their beliefs as the door as beliefs do influence actions. (Radical secularism itself brings with it some implicit beliefs).