For some time now, certain misguided voices have been calling for a boycott of the Olympic games in Berlin, on the grounds that the German governmen…
Read moreRegular visitors to this blog probably think I read nothing but the New York Times , since so many of my posts start off with stories from the "…
Read morePolice are saying that Jim Adkisson, the alleged shooter in Sunday's tragedy at a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee--which le…
Read moreOver the past weeks, while the McCain campaign has been browbeating Barack Obama for opposing the "surge" and for being slow to admit that …
Read moreLast month I discussed two episodes in which Iraqi civilians were killed by the U.S. military, and in which Iraqi and U.S. officials gave conflictin…
Read moreMy journalist-blogger colleague Marc Cooper comments on a Truthdig post by Chris Hedges lamenting the demise of the newspaper and the rise of the in…
Read moreNew York Times columnist Bob Herbert asks all the right questions about McCain today in a piece entitled "Getting to Know You." Check it o…
Read moreYup, that's what the latest study says, published in Science . My colleague David Malakoff writes about it here on our ScienceNOW news service. …
Read moreShould our Medicare dollars be going to keep old people alive? No, says Slate's " Human Nature" columnist, William Saletan, in a post …
Read moreMuch is being made of how dramatically Karadzic changed his appearance so that he would not be "recognized" while he was hiding from war cr…
Read moreThe world of science has lost one of its most talented chroniclers. Last Friday evening, photographer Philippe Plailly, founder of the Paris-based sc…
Read moreThat's how much U.S. taxpayers have been tapped so far for the Bush administration's war of choice in Iraq. Remember that number the next tim…
Read moreWe're still blogging from the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Barcelona, be sure to check out our posts at this link right here . Lots of good …
Read moreThat, at least, is the implication of a new ancient DNA study my partner on Science 's anthropology beat, Ann Gibbons, reports about today on ou…
Read moreBeginning Thursday, the entire European news team of Science , including yours truly, will be descending on Barcelona for the Euroscience Open Forum …
Read moreOkay, I hope all the Obama people are happy now. Liberals and progressives love it when Bush, Cheney, McCain et al. are sharply satirized, but lay a …
Read moreMemo to all Obama supporters so outraged about the cover that they are spending hours blogging, commenting, and otherwise fulminating about it: Pleas…
Read moreToday is the "national holiday" (Fete Nationale) in France, and as every year, there was a parade this morning down the Avenue des Champs-É…
Read moreMy wife and I spent the morning at the Musée du Luxembourg , where an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Fauvist painter Maurice…
Read moreVélib, the bicycle-sharing system in Paris, is one year old on July 15. There are some 20,000 bicycles and 1500 stations throughout the city. The sys…
Read moreIn a post yesterday I talked about some details coming out of New Yorker writer Jane Mayer's new book about the Bush administration's "…
Read moreI've been monitoring this story since last week when the U.S. denied causing civilian deaths in ai…
Read moreThe New York Times today has a preview of New Yorker writer Jane Mayer's new book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror…
Read moreThat's the question raised by a new study I report on in a brief news item in today's issue of Science. Rice farming takes place in a wetlan…
Read moreSerial rabbit killers, discrimination against gays, Obama's sellout of civil liberties--this blog is getting downright depressing. Time for somet…
Read moreOkay, this may seem funny, but to our family it's serious. Someone is killing pet bunnies in Germany, according to the BBC . Indeed, I was incens…
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