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June 2014

June 30, 2014

Like a diamond in the sky

Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star--basically, the burnt-out remnant of a star--that basically consists...

June 26, 2014

Natural Law reconsidered

Natural law as a grounding for morality is basic to Roman Catholic ethics, though it...

June 03, 2014

Obama enacts carbon restrictions despite Congress

Congress has refused to pass legislation restricting carbon emissions, so President Obama is doing it...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

Scientists claim that we’ll find alien life in 20 years

The government-funded effort to find alien life--known as SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life)--is running out...

May 21, 2014

How dogs say, “I’m just playing”

You know how a dog will get down on his paws with his rear in...

May 16, 2014

Cat hero

Cats get little credit for expressing love to their owners, but maybe they are just...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

Dark matter and spiritual matter?

Our increasingly weird science now affirms that there is a reality that we cannot see,...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

The difference one person can make

Some say history is made by vast social and economic forces. Others say that even...

March 25, 2014

176 missing in Washington mudslide

A mudslide in Washington state destroyed 30 houses. Eight people have been confirmed dead, but...

March 03, 2014

A baby’s sense of morality

Research is showing that babies as young as six months have a moral sense. Some...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

“A strangeness at the heart of all things”

Michael Gerson says that we are in the "golden age of physics," which explodes the...

February 21, 2014

Gender diversity and language

You thought it was complicated using "non-sexist" pronouns, avoiding the generic "he" for "he or...

February 17, 2014

The 58 gender options

When you give your gender, that used to be a clear choice between "male" or...

February 13, 2014

What’s whiter than snow?

Here in Northern Virginia we woke up to about 12 inches of it, and it...

February 12, 2014

“Rewilding” the USA with lions & elephants

An article about what knocked off the mammoths--not man as previously thought, but climate change--got...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

A “non-human person”

A court in Argentina ruled that an organgutan is a "non-human person," and so is...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

The geometric form of the year

This is an "amplituhedron." See "A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics" , which...

December 16, 2013

DNA encodes two languages, not just one

Scientists have discovered that DNA contains not just one but two languages, superimposed over each...

December 09, 2013

Weird math fact

A comic strip (which you can see here after the jump) raised a mathematical conundrum...

December 05, 2013

Man as hybrid of chimp and pig

A prominent evolutionary scientist, Dr. Eugene M. McCarthy, is advancing a new theory about the...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

Typhoon kills thousands

One of the most powerful storms ever recorded hit the Philippines, killing some 10,000 people. ...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Why we sleep

Virtually all animals sleep, but scientists have had a hard time figuring out why that...

October 18, 2013

Why cats are the way they are

I've blogged about dogs. But I also like cats. They are cool, graceful little killing...

October 04, 2013

Has Bigfoot been verified?

Researchers are claiming that they have new photographic and physical evidence of the existence of...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

What time is it?

In a story about how the rotation of the earth has slowed 2/1000 of a...

September 20, 2013

Mount up with wings like eagles

After the jump, a video from a camera mounted on the back of an eagle,...

September 17, 2013

“A mind not a material process”

Intelligent Design scholar Stephen Meyer has a new book out, Darwin's Doubt. Emily Belz of...

September 05, 2013

Birds as Bloggers

Researchers often tag birds and other animals so that their movements and activities can be...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

From tech to farming

Remember Stewart Lundy, my former student who helped me with the technical side of my...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

The view from Saturn

The Earth and the Moon from the Saturn probe Cassini, launched in 1997 and still...