links for 2007-06-20

Ludovic Delory: Si les francophones étaient si courageux, ils n'hésiteraient pas à dialoguer avec ces Flamands qu'ils comprennent si mal.

Michael R. Bloomberg, a longtime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City in 2001, announced this evening that he is changing his party status and registering as an independent.

A controversial new calculation could abolish the event horizon, and so solve a troubling paradox in physics.

I'm not a candidate for president," Mr. Bloomberg said. "My next career will be in philanthropy. I've done the government thing."