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July 2009

July 15, 2009

Towards a new scientific worldview, #3: Changing the past

More weird science: A quantum entity, such as a photon of light or an electron,...

July 14, 2009

Towards a new scientific worldview, part 2: Biocentrism

Picking up from yesterday, Robert Lanza is a scientist who has written a new book...

July 13, 2009

Towards a new scientific worldview, part 1: The Goldilocks effect

Robert Lanza is a scientist who has written a new book entitled Biocentrism that uses...

July 09, 2009

Embryonic stem cells instead of lab rats

From Christian Telegraph: General Electric has announced that it will use embryonic stem cells provided...

July 09, 2009

Death of a technocrat

Robert McNamara, the Defense Secretary under Kennedy and LBJ and architect of the Vietnam war,...

June 2009

June 26, 2009

What happened to the Neanderthals

Some scientists think they have discovered what happened to the Neanderthals. The more advanced, more...

June 16, 2009

Geoengineering the climate

Another solution being proposed to counter the alleged global warming--in addition to reducing the carbon...

June 11, 2009

Theistic evolution

Theistic evolutionists say they believe in God while also believing in Darwinism. They maintain that...

April 2009

April 20, 2009

New embryonic stem-cell guidelines

The National Institute of Health has issued newguidelines for embryonic stem cell research, in light...

April 15, 2009

Not smart enough to do his taxes

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." Albert Einstein. He...

April 14, 2009

Anorexia for Jesus?

Emma comments on a post from over a year ago: The pro-Anorexia movement. Her comments...

March 2009

March 10, 2009

Obama allows doing anything to embryos except clone them

President Obama went further than anyone thought in lifting the restrictions on federal funding of...

March 09, 2009

Obama to overturn federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research

Despite the scientific breakthroughs that yield stem cells without killing human embryos, President Obama is...

March 02, 2009

Stem cells from regular skin

In another breakthrough, scientists have found a way to make cells from ordinary skin revert...

February 2009

February 26, 2009

Erasing bad memories

Scientists are developing drug treatments that would erase bad memories. See this article. So far,...

February 12, 2009

Darwin Day

Today is Darwin's 200th birthday. He's being hailed today as never before. Indeed, he is...

January 2009

January 27, 2009

Science vs. Engineering

Civil engineering professor Henry Petroski makes a useful distinction: "We will restore science to its...

January 07, 2009

Kids do best in intact families that go to church

OK, this is one of those social science research projects that proves the perfectly obvious,...

January 05, 2009

Darwinism’s pygmy in the zoo

In the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the protagonist befriends an African pygmy...

December 2008

December 31, 2008

The year the Earth stopped warming?

British columnist Christopher Booker of the London Daily Telegraph proclaims that 2008 was the year...

December 31, 2008

What will you do with your extra second?

Today will have a "leap second." From Tick tock ... tick: Extra second added to...

December 05, 2008

The happiness contagion

A study has found that happiness really is contagious. Unhappiness is not. I'm tempted to...

December 01, 2008

The mystery of the acorns

Do you have any oak trees in your yard? Go out and look on the...

October 2008

October 29, 2008

The oldest human cells?

Fifty years ago, a Norwegian man named Bernt Aune received a cornea transplant from a...

October 22, 2008

Space race

India has launched a probe that will orbit the moon. It will also send down...

September 2008

September 30, 2008

The candidates on evolution

The science journal NATURE sent both candidates a series of questions about their position on...

September 11, 2008

On the other side of the black hole

Well, we made it. The earth apparently didn't get sucked into a singularity (a.k.a. black...

September 10, 2008

The world might get destroyed today

Today, a super-particle accelerator will get turned on just outside of Geneva, Switzerland. Some people,...

September 10, 2008

We only have seven years left

Carlos Pascual and Strobe Talbott of the Brookings Institute declare in the Washington Post that...

August 2008

August 22, 2008

Dog morality

Maybe there is something to the Mowgli/Romulus/Remus legend. SeeFemale dog rescues abandoned baby, takes child...