The view from Brantwood House, John Ruskin's home for 28 years, looking out over Coniston Water in the English Lake District. Photo: Michael Balt…
Read moreOn Science 's Origins blog, I write about a new study that might shed new light on the differences between chimp and human brains in a region cl…
Read moreToday on Science 's Origins blog, I write about an exhibit at the prehistory museum of the Pech-Merle Cave, in France's Lot Valley, that tra…
Read moreI'm going to put this as simply as I can: Americans will not have serious health care reform until there is a major mass movement behind it. Sinc…
Read moreFirst of all, for those who have never seen it, let's start off by watching one of the greatest, most brilliant, most successful, and most well d…
Read moreI wonder if it might not turn out to be a good thing in the end that Congress will not come up with a health care plan before its summer recess. Perh…
Read moreToday's New York Times reports that federal Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle has given the U.S. government until Friday to put up or shut up in the ca…
Read moreA few years ago one of my best friends, a single mother of two sons, was driving near her home in New York state when another woman ran a red light a…
Read moreI blogged sometime back about this thriller by my friend and colleague David Downie, and now it is out. Here is my Amazon review: "Okay, this bo…
Read moreI hate to be a spoilsport, but is anybody else as ready to scream as I am if I hear this phrase one more time? (Oh, the BBC just did it again--aaaaaa…
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