Author: Daniel Kennelly

By Sep 23,2008

Sic itur ad astra

Big robots and big rockets: Some talking points on space exploration for the next administration. Better get on these points, as well as more forward-looking projects like the space elevator....

By Sep 18,2008

Got Chinese milk?

The scope of the tainted milk scandal seems to be expanding daily: Milk tainted with melamine, a compound banned in food, has killed three other babies, two in China’s northwestern...

By Sep 17,2008

In new Russia, vodka drink you!

So apparently someone has been using an underwater pipeline to smuggle vodka out of Russia. Thing is, I would have thought the pipe-flow would have been in the opposite direction.

By Sep 16,2008

Obama the Dove?

Andrew Sullivan, responding to Christopher Hitchens’ claim that an Obama presidency will mean “more war, and more bitter and protracted war at that—not less”, says: I can face the idea...

By Sep 15,2008

A latter-day Genghis Khan

Warmonger? Mass murderer? Evil incarnate? Yes, Hitler was all of these things, but, as Niall Ferguson says, he was also an inept colonialist, and his Reich one of the last,...