It's science time again! Today my partner on Science 's anthropology beat, Ann Gibbons, and I pull a double whammy with two important stories…
Read moreI was just watching CNN while eating my lunch, and saw them do something that totally amazed and outraged me. They were inviting the audience to emai…
Read moreCould there be a better time for an economist ( now ) sympathetic to Obama to win the Nobel Prize? I don't think so! Let's hope that Krugman …
Read moreThe New York Times has an important story today about Andy Martin, an apparently unbalanced anti-Semite who nevertheless has managed, beginning in …
Read more"When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appe…
Read moreI've been waiting to comment on Tim Dickinson's hit piece on McCain in Rolling Stone , "Make-Believe Maverick," until I had a chan…
Read moreThe New York Times reports today that law enforcement officers in Chicago will no longer evict residents from foreclosed properties. The move was a…
Read moreThe Adler Planetarium in Chicago released this statement today (with thanks to DanO for alerting us to this on Marc Cooper's blog .) It is an ex…
Read more9:17 PM-- I would say that both candidates are off to a shaky start. Obama is struggling to make his own points while fighting off McCain's atta…
Read moreNote that Betty was elected in the midst of the Great Depression.
Read moreSome Obama supporters are debating the wisdom of "dragging out" the 1990s Keating Five scandal at this point in the campaign, in the form o…
Read moreAlthough I have shifted my focus to archaeology and human evolution in recent years, I served for a long time as Science 's backup man on AIDS co…
Read moreMy Science colleagues Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen report on the Nobel prizes for medicine announced today, which went to Luc Montagnier (photo at …
Read moreI think any honest observer would have to admit that Sarah Palin did very well tonight (so did Joe Biden.) But Palin's success was due almost ent…
Read moreWe need someone who can act without thinking. By the way, when she couldn't tell Katie Couric what she reads, she was just being modest and not w…
Read moreWhy should Main Street bail out Wall Street? The answer, in short, is that if the owners and rulers of America's economy don't get to play th…
Read moreA friend has just alerted me to a must-have product for cleaning the inside of your computer screen, where a lot of dirt accumulates but is very hard…
Read moreWell, who would have thought that a director as cerebral as Woody Allen could have evoked such an earthy performance from Penelope Cruz? Or perhaps h…
Read moreThis was the only clip I could find of my favorite Paul Newman movie, "The Long Hot Summer." The chemistry with Joanne Woodward was incredi…
Read moreWhile McCain and Obama were sparring over the economy yesterday evening, McCain brought up the "millions" of dollars spent on "bear D…
Read moreMy wife writes from Paris, where they are taking all this in with alarm, and suggests this idea for the bailout: "How about sending round a peti…
Read moreOkay, let's see if I have this right. John McCain suddenly realizes the financial crisis is an emergency and announces the suspension of his camp…
Read moreMcCain is trying to make a sucker out of you, call his bluff. This is a cheap political stunt, the country needs this debate badly and you should say…
Read moreToday's Salon features a story about the McCain campaign's alleged letter-to-the-editor ghostwriting operation, in two parts (click here an…
Read moreThe Rosenbergs' two sons released a statement today in the wake of recent news stories about their parents, accused "atomic spies" Jul…
Read moreIf you did not listen to Terry Gross' "Fresh Air" interview with Barton Gellman on NPR last week, I would urge you to take the trouble…
Read moreThe New York Times has been listing the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq for several years now, and has just recently begun including those ki…
Read moreJust back from Pittsburgh today and lots to catch up with, so I am directing my loyal readers to today's series of posts on The Huffington Post. …
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