The Israeli group Breaking the Silence today publishes the testimony of 26 Israeli soldiers deployed in Gaza. The BBC has details here , including t…
Read moreLast week I blogged my article in Science about the paleoartists who recreate hominins for museums and magazine covers; today, on Science 's Or…
Read morePhysicians for Human Rights Statement July 10, 2009 For Immediate Release Statement by Physicians for Human Rights in Response to Comments by…
Read moreToday's issue of Science features a four-page article by yours truly about the "paleoartists" who create lifelike, three-dimensional …
Read moreIf Karadzic really thought all these years that he had been promised immunity from war crimes prosecution in The Hague if he left politics, as he now…
Read moreLeonard Cohen is on the European stretch of his world tour , and of course Balter's Blog was on the scene when he played at Bercy in Paris last n…
Read moreI was down in the Lot Valley (southern France) the past few days, so lagging behind--as this blog often does--the 24 hour news cycle. But I have been…
Read moreA friend of mine in Los Angeles has just brought to my attention a scurrilous column published in the L.A. Weekly late last month, authored by Mich…
Read moreThis drawing accompanies an article in today's issue of Le Monde (dated 3 July) relating how employers in the U.S. are lowering salaries to dea…
Read moreA couple of days ago, Times science writer Gina Kolata, who was filling in for John Tierney on his blog TiernyLab, linked to a report by the organ…
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