Another summer solstice has come and gone and yet it doesn’t feel particularly like summer at all. What with the weather being a bit more rainy and moody than usual, the US presidential race being more shrill than ever, and the slaughter in Orlando and the Brexit result pounding through the headlines, it is hard to just relax and enjoy the summer. But that is exactly what we should be doing. Modern life, while far less physically demanding than earlier times, has its own costs and toils. The primary one being the general wear and tear on our time to be silent and at peace with ourselves. Well, the Blog Wyrm staff is vowing to relax this summer and we hope each of you also have a relaxing and peaceful season of the sun.
Reboots, and retcons, and timelines oh my! Revamping older comics tropes to fit new aesthetics is common these days. Publishers want to tap new and/or changing demographics in order to sell product and stay in business. But only company has raises the comics version of a mulligan to an artform – DC comics. About Comics their latest Rebirth effort in context of the numerous ctrl-alt-deletes that they have engaged in the last 30 years.
Would you work if you had a guaranteed income? Even a modest one? Well the citizens of Switzerland just wrestled with this question in a national referendum. Common Cents examines the arguments for and against and the underlying economic principles.
John Stuart Mills is certainly not a household name. Indeed, it is likely that few have ever even heard of him. Whether that fact is socially unfortunate is left to others to argue. What is known is that his methods for hypothesizing cause from an observed effect are used by all, even if they don’t know how many he identified nor the unusual names he gave them. Join Aristotle to Digital for a discussion of Mill’s methods and how they are applied in everyday life.
Waves in cold magnetized plasma exhibit dispersion relations that are rich, complex, and surprising. Under the Hood examines the behavior of longitudinal and transverse waves propagating along the external magnetic field.
Enjoy!