Thursday, May 15, 2008
Let your kids play outside
The blog freerangekids has an excellent post about a mother who gave her 9-year-old a subway map, metro card, $20, and a few quarters for phone calls, and told him to find his way home. He did, have gained much from the experience.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Edwards, Kleeb and more, oh my!
John Edwards just endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president. The odds of Edwards being AG just went way up.
Scott Kleeb won the Nebraska Democratic senate primary. He faces off against former governor and Ag Secretary Mike Johanns. This will be an interesting senate race. Nebraska's other senator is a Democrat, and Kleeb beat expectations in the 3rd district's congressional race in 2006.
Finally, here's a fun one. What do the 97 senators not currently running for president have to say about being their party's VP nominee? Read about it here.
Scott Kleeb won the Nebraska Democratic senate primary. He faces off against former governor and Ag Secretary Mike Johanns. This will be an interesting senate race. Nebraska's other senator is a Democrat, and Kleeb beat expectations in the 3rd district's congressional race in 2006.
Finally, here's a fun one. What do the 97 senators not currently running for president have to say about being their party's VP nominee? Read about it here.
June/July Strategy for Obama
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
What Clinton Should Do
Former Senator George McGovern, who knows a thing or two about how a vicious primary challenge can destroy general election chances, has some advice to Senator Clinton about how to finish the primary campaign: Travel around with Obama, clearly state her differences, and then eventually call it a day. That's it.
Getting struck by lightning
Excellent piece in today's Science Times about how to get struck by lightning and live: do it while inside a Faraday Cage.
A Faraday Cage is a metal container that takes advantage of the following effect in electro- magnetism: If a conductor (e.g. a metal container) is put in an electric field, the electrons in the conductor move according to the forces from the field until they are in equilibrium (meaning that any further movements would increase the electrical potential energy of the charges).
This allocation of charges also has the effect of creating a field that exactly counters the external field. The effect of this is that inside the Faraday Cage there is effect from the external field. So, if a large charge were transferred to the surface of the cage (e.g., from lightning), the charges on the surface would reorient themselves in a new way that exactly cancelled out the external force, leaving anything in the cage unaffected by the charge surge.
A Faraday Cage is a metal container that takes advantage of the following effect in electro- magnetism: If a conductor (e.g. a metal container) is put in an electric field, the electrons in the conductor move according to the forces from the field until they are in equilibrium (meaning that any further movements would increase the electrical potential energy of the charges).
This allocation of charges also has the effect of creating a field that exactly counters the external field. The effect of this is that inside the Faraday Cage there is effect from the external field. So, if a large charge were transferred to the surface of the cage (e.g., from lightning), the charges on the surface would reorient themselves in a new way that exactly cancelled out the external force, leaving anything in the cage unaffected by the charge surge.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Primary Predictions: 5/13
West Virgnia: Clinton by a large margin.
It won't dent Obama's chances of the being the nominee, and should actually help him, since he saves face by losing to Clinton while she's running (as opposed to losing to Clinton after she's dropped out).
It won't dent Obama's chances of the being the nominee, and should actually help him, since he saves face by losing to Clinton while she's running (as opposed to losing to Clinton after she's dropped out).
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