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December 2015

December 16, 2015

A six-year-old girl trapped in the body of a 52-year-old man

A 52-year-old man with a wife and seven children decided that he is really female. ...

December 14, 2015

The world’s leaders have saved the planet

The Paris climate talks ended with all 195 nations agreeing to cut carbon emissions to...

December 09, 2015

The gift of pain

A 39-year-old woman was born with the inability to feel pain. But this rare syndrome...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Prosecute global warming skeptics?

A group of 20 scientists is urging the president to prosecute scientists and organizations that...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Let’s declare Pluto a planet again

Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006, but the New Horizon space probe...

October 09, 2015

Math discrepancy in astrophysics

There is energy even in a vacuum. But the amount predicted by quantum physics and...

October 08, 2015

How cells repair their own DNA

Here I am in Oslo, Norway, so I should take the occasion to post about...

October 01, 2015

Quantum teleportation

Scientists have teleported photons to a distance of 63 miles, a new record. This "quantum...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

The “right of the environment”

We are mostly familiar with the concept of human rights. In his address to the...

September 10, 2015

The more prey, the fewer predators

One would think that the more prey animals--zebras, antelopes, rabbits, etc.--there are, the more predators...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The power of feeling what someone else feels

Empathy is an important virtue--"rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep" (Romans...

July 16, 2015

“The next Darwin” says life is inevitable

A 33-year-old physicist at MIT, Jeremy England, is being hailed as "the new Darwin," for...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The sixth extinction will include us

Some scientists are saying that we have entered the sixth phase of mass extinction of...

June 25, 2015

If you embrace nature, embrace natural law

The Pope's encyclical "Laudato Si" is winning fulsome praise from the left for its embrace...

June 25, 2015

A top doctor discusses transgenderism

Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Dr. Paul McHugh discusses the transgender phenomenon and why sex change surgery...

June 24, 2015

Sister Earth is trying to kill us

From Lutheran Satire's Hans Fiene: The pope thinks we should view the earth as our...

June 24, 2015

Why flies are so hard to swat

Scientists have figured out why flies are so hard to swat. It has to do...

June 23, 2015

The pope’s “seismic shift” in theology

Jay Michaelson says that the most important aspect of the Pope's encyclical on the environment...

June 23, 2015

Post-gender Europe

Europe has gone further than the United States in embracing the new ideologies about sex,...

June 22, 2015

The Pope goes all in on environmental issues

Pope Francis published his encyclical Laudato Si ("praise to you," from the first words of...

June 16, 2015

ABC’s predictions for June, 2015

We often make predictions here at the Cranach blog, but we also do what often...

June 15, 2015

If transgender, why not transracial?

We are told that personal identity is different from physical being, that some individuals feel...

June 11, 2015

Evolution vs. liberalism

In the course of a discussion about an article by a feminist attacking transgendered folks...

June 10, 2015

Transgenderism vs. Feminism

The arguments for transgenderism contradict the arguments for feminism. So claims Joseph Backholm, who concludes...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Between first sleep and second sleep

About two years ago, we posted First Sleep, Second Sleep, which became the 12th most-read...

May 19, 2015

A warm-blooded fish

As we were taught in Biology, mammals and birds are warm-blooded; reptiles and fish are...

May 08, 2015

A sentimental tribute to Motherhood, with spiders

OK, what I am about to tell you is gross, even horrific. And (trigger warning...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Earthquake catastrophe in Nepal

A massive earthquake, hitting 7.8 on the Richter scale, hit Nepal, killing at last count...

April 24, 2015

The Teenage Brain

Parents have long been frustrated with their teenager's "what was he thinking" moments. Why do...

April 17, 2015

Totalitarianism reconsidered

Some intellectuals are arguing that democracy cannot effectively address climate change--and, indeed, makes it worse--and...