Dolphins and the Tuesday Night Crits

Dolphins, it turns out, apparently understand instinctively and from the beginning what I am only beginning to grasp. A new paper by Daniel Weihs (free, reg. req.) calculates that baby dolphins swimming in mom’s slipstream gain between 30 percent and 60 percent of the force required to keep up. Weihs, of the Israel Institute of …

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On Media Bias

From the right, the middle looks awfully far to the left, and vice versa. Mike Fancher, executive editor of the Seattle Times, had a column Sunday about readers complaining the newspaper showed a liberal bias. And other readers complaining the newspaper showed a conservative bias.