May 10, 2002

Slate’s Explainer feature examines "What is a Palestinian Refugee Camp?" The real question, why do these camps still exist after 54 years is not asked. 11:05:03 PM

Salon has a story on the useless research on how to mark radioactive waste disposal sites as dangerous so that civilizations thousands of years in the future will stay away from them. Experts have mentioned ideas such as monoliths, diagrams, and markers. The article’s author rightly points out that making a huge Stonehenge-like site will just attract people, like the original Stonehenge. Why not simply publish the location of the waste storage areas on the Internet and put up a few signs? All this concern that the meaning of the site will be lost in the future is silly. For example, its been nearly two thousand years since the Temple Mount was built and people still know why it's there. The same holds for ancient Greek and Roman buildings. 12:04:13 AM