My blogging has been intermittent the past week because I was between Paris, Boston, and Santa Cruz, California, where I am now. At least once each y…
Read moreNew York Times columnist Roger Cohen has really been ripping into the obfuscations of Israeli leaders lately, and he does it again today with a ver…
Read moreIt's too late to impeach Cheney, but why is he still walking the streets? I don't know about where you live, but here in Massachussetts the s…
Read moreThe Washington Post carries an interesting, albeit ultimately unsatisfying, article about torture memo author Jay Bybee's apparent private reg…
Read moreI'm back in Beantown for several days, before heading to the West Coast for the month of May. So look for more frequent comments on the American …
Read moreA cast of Homo floresiensis is on display during a conference on the diminutive species at Stony Brook University entitled “Hobbits in the Haystack…
Read moreDuring the first 24 hour news cycle on allegations that Representative Jane Harman of California was trading favors with the Israel lobby over the c…
Read more"We can't turn the page until we first read the page" --Senate Judiciary Commitee chair Patrick Leahy . The New York Times reports toda…
Read moreYet another journalist is jailed for doing their job, this time in Iran. A solidarity site can be found here , and I will post anything else I find…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW, I report on the latest in the long saga of Einstein's brain. An anthropologist at Flori…
Read moreYou can download and read all of them on the ACLU's Web site . Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA officers who "relied" on thes…
Read moreWell, let's just say the Somalian pirate saga could have turned out differently, but fortunately it didn't . By all indications Capt. Richard…
Read moreJust back from India and a little jetlagged, so nothing brilliant to say today. Meanwhile, enjoy a couple short videos by University of California, B…
Read moreI'm pretty tied up here in Hyderabad, India, on the second leg of my three-city lecture tour about "What Made Humans Modern?" So fo…
Read moreThe Lodhi Gardens of New Delhi are probably famous enough that I don't have to say much about them, other than offer these modest photos. They ca…
Read moreI am off to Hyderabad tomorrow, so had my final swing through Delhi today. The photos you see are a view from a rickshaw in old Delhi; a "yes th…
Read moreMy photographic skills do not seem stunning today (not that I am much of a professional even though I manage to get my photos published reasonably of…
Read moreI am spending my first day in Delhi and having a busy time, being shown around by my colleague and friend, Science 's correspondent here, and giv…
Read moreThis post is true, despite what day it is: I will be off on an 8-day, 3-city speaking tour in India beginning tomorrow, at the kind invitation of the…
Read moreI am just as shocked as you to learn this news . Early this morning Western Europe time, former President George W. Bush walked through the front doo…
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