I'm still on holiday, and in transit from the Devon countryside to the big city of Bristol today, so just a quickie: A post by Rebecca Curtis in …
Read moreIn this week's issue of Science , I write about the last decade of research at Chauvet Cave in southern France, where spectacular drawings of ho…
Read moreToday's New York Times features an article about John McCain that tells us everything we need to know about why he is not qualified to be Presi…
Read moreI mentioned in an earlier post that I was reading Jane Mayer's new book " The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned in…
Read moreFor the next several days I will be blogging (maybe not quite so often, however) from Devon, England, where I am on a semi-vacation. Until I get out…
Read moreSo far I have held back from a full blog post on the terrible and crucially important war between Russia and Georgia, because I think that the links …
Read moreI've just started reading Jane Mayer's new book, " The Dark Side ," about how the United States turned to torture as a weapon in th…
Read morePaul Krugman, in an opinion piece in today's New York Times entitled "Know-Nothing Politics," raises what might really be the core is…
Read moreThe wife and I were working late at home this evening, so for a little background entertainment we were watching episodes of "The X-files."…
Read moreI hope everyone is paying close attention to the potentially explosive flap over allegations in Ron Suskind's new book, " The Way of the Wor…
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