Ah, there is a plan.
Army Group Steiner will move south and save Baghdad
Science and Democracy have one unique strenght in common.
They provide institutional mechanisms for negative feedback. When pundits are wrong, the mechanisms will, eventually, reveal the error and self-correct.
When those mechanisms fail or or abandoned we lose.
Testing these institutional mechanisms to destruction does not seem like a very good idea.
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The weekend interrupted the parade of Nobel prizes, setting apart The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, more commonly called the Nobel in Economics (even though it's a late addition).
Michael Nielsen has a nice essay up explaining Why the world needs quantum mechanics:
There is a new paper on PLoS-Biology describing a tit-for-tat-like reciprocal behavior in rats: Generalized Reciprocity in Rats: