The Year In Ideas

popo writes "The New York Times Magazine has a review of the year's most original and interesting ideas. They include "The Tornado in a Can" ("A contained cyclone, it turns out, is very useful for pulverizing things") and David Stevenson's real-life proposal to dig to the center of the Earth. by sinking heavy iron through the Earth's mantle."

Comments

Can't the NYT put aside this crap just once?

[Phleg]

Liberals have long complained that the right overwhelms them with personal attacks and vicious allegations, while the left tries, naively, to make a more noble and substantive case...The various expressions of liberal fury are a direct imitation of what the right has been doing for more than a decade.

Could they for Christ's sake refrain from injecting liberal politics into every article they write? As if Liberals haven't overwhelmed the right with personal attacks and vicious allegations ever. That's right, according to the article, they just started doing it while the right has been doing it for who knows how long.