Strange Matter: The Physics and Poetics of the Search for the God Particle.

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Strange Matter: The Physics and Poetics of the Search for the God Particle.

I don't remember a time of greater insecurity. University of Massachusetts economics professor Richard Wolff argues that government bailouts and stimulus packages will not be enough to address the real causes of the economic crisis or to mend the "seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself." While Wall Street has been re-floated with staggering amounts of capital, the rest of the country remains floundering on a dry, mud-caked riverbed. "The bailout package," observed Joseph Stiglitz in a January 2009 Vanity Fair essay appropriately titled "Capitalist Fools," "was like a massive transfusion to a patient suffering from internal bleeding--and nothing was being done about the source of the problem, namely all those foreclosures." Climate change is wreaking havoc on the world's population; Australia, Argentina, India, Kenya, and war-torn Afghanistan are suffering unprecedented droughts; polar ice caps are melting at a much faster rate than scientists predicted; typhoons,...

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