links for 2008-05-26

""I would bet my house now that the results will come out null so the Copernican Principle is valid on the scales we observe," says Paul Steinhardt a cosmologist at Princeton University, "But I think the experiments should be done.""

"Not every project allows writers to examine the clichés they're generating--in that way and others, the film is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Black, and one he's earned"

The best episode of "The American Experience" ever.

Suddenly, it all makes sense...

"Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed."

A good explanation of the unpleasant stupid lazy racism of the new Indy sequel. With spoilers.