A day late, but...

It's past time for a link-dump. Perhaps this rainy morning will give me a chance to catch up on all the things I ignored on the (sunny) weekend. I'll start with an article about Dali and some Music

• It wasn’t long after this that his unique painting style, which seamlessly blended classic influences like Raphael with modern avant garde styles like those of Joan Miro, started to garner him quite a bit of attention in the art community. Not to be outdone by his own artwork, Dali promptly started to grow his trademark moustache, which was influenced by the seventeenth-century painter Diego Velazquez.
• Avett Brothers: Let me just put it bluntly: money kills good music. Or, rather, too much money kills good music. This is not always the case, but it is more often than not the case.
• One venal and one crazy? Will Eichmann and Wallace be controlled? Disch was not optimistic: A review of Thomas Disch's works.
• Review: On Evil by Terry Eagleton. Compare: a pharmaceutical company tells us that we are all born with a disease that requires that we buy their product all our lives long, and that if we do it will cure us after death. This reminds me of the joke about Bernie Madoff, that his big mistake was promising returns in this life; he should have taken his cue from the religion.

Next, a rather involved article on the disparity between matter and anti-matter.

• Link Studies of particle production and decay under reversal of discrete symmetries (charge, parity, and time reversal) have yielded considerable insight on the structure of the theories that describe high energy phenomena. Of particular interest is the observation of CP violation, a phenomenon well established in the K^o and B^o_d systems, but not yet observed for the B^o_s system, where all CP violation effects are expected to be small in the standard model. (PDF file)

And finally the Money makes the world go round list:

• The future will be China, and the new world order. That arrangement is deadly realist about the incompatibility of Stratification and Equality. It has embraced a future of Prosperity without a sentimental glance at the worn bride, Equality.
• The German press is saturated with reports intended to verify the myth of the slovenly, lazy and corrupt Southern European countries which virtuous and hard-working northern European countries mistakenly admitted to the European Union.
• All three times William Jennings Bryan ran for president, his campaigns were woefully under funded. According to one estimate, Bryan’s campaign in 1896 spent $425,000 while McKinley had $16,500,000 with which to work.
• On the eve of Rand Paul’s likely primary victory over Trey Grayson, I want to make a few observations about the importance of Paul’s candidacy and the apparent failure of party and movement establishment figures to defeat him. First of all, Paul is one of a very few Republican candidates in the country who is truly serious in his desire for fiscal responsibility.
• In the wake of nation-wide demonstrations calling for stronger government regulation of banks and investment firms, draft legislation was introduced in the House on Tuesday that targets a less conspicuous multi-billion dollar industry that still affects everyday Americans: the collection and distribution of personal information.
• Earlier this week, the Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, irked US authorities by pointing out that even the world’s economic superpowerhas a major fiscal problem -“even the United States, the world’s largest economy, has a very large fiscal deficit” were his words.