With all the speculation about the apparently imminent missile test in North Korea, I have to wonder if we have firm evidence that the rocket was actually fueled. The appearance of fueling is not fueling, after all. I suppose we may have the answer to this question before too long, but my cursory searches have [...]
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[. . .] For him, Cupid’s bowModified in PeenemündeVia Brueghel. “The Cast,” Ted Hughes. Birthday Letters. A trove of his writings sits unread a few miles from me, and will sit, if I understand the terms, for quite a while. Speaking of casts, Emory also has one of Joyce’s death-masks near the checkout counter, worth [...]
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According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: “I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.” In 1926 the Politburo in Moscow passed the request to the Academy of Science with the order to build a “living war machine”. The order came at [...]
I want to tell you about three things. “Agrippa was not unfamiliar with inns; on the contrary, he frequented them willingly and a few small stones were sufficient to pay his bills because, as Del Rio says, he gave them the appearance of good money in the eyes of the landlord. This time, however, he [...]
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“One Highlander on the beaches of Dunkirk was overheard telling a comrade: ‘If the English surrender too, it’s going to be a long war’” (318 qtd in. “Hitler’s England: What if Germany Had Invaded Britain in May 1940?” by Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson. In Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. Ed. Niall Ferguson. New York: [...]
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This story made me wonder about which of the world’s militaries are currently deploying or have the ability to deploy high-intensity lasers on the battlefield to blind the enemy. You can read a report on the matter here. But what I’m really curious about at the moment is whether Dennis Gabor envisioned any military applications [...]
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“Perhaps instead the techniques of chemistry and biology have seemed unclean and unmanly, the products of ‘odd-ball’ scientists ensconced in laboratories, reflecting perverted scientific ingenuity rather than the bravery of cold steel” (George H. Quester, “Chemical and Biological Warfare.” American Political Science Review 68.3 [Sep. 1974]: 1285).
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Via Watercooler Games, I see this notice that the South Korean government, or at least that portion of the government responsible for regulating video games, which might be rather large, considering, has decided that most certainly something obstat in the way of Ghost Recon 2. The game is apparently set in a war-torn North Korea [...]
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