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…
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