Two articles in today's San Diego Union-Tribune are well worth your time. The first is an editorial taking the media to task for yesterday's inaccurate characterizations of the 9/11 commission's report and the relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al-Qaeda," Bush […]
Ramesh Ponnuru has an excellent article clearing up some of the false claims made by proponents of embryonic-stem-cell research.
Wesley J. Smith has a helpful update on the promise of adult stem cell research.
As one of the few people with a journalism degree who actually took (and passed -- barely) multi-variable calculus, I continue to find math interesting, especially when something like this happens. The Poincare Conjecture, named after the Frenchman who proposed it in 1904, is the question that essentially founded the field of topology, the "rubber-sheet […]
That would be National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru who has an excellent, well-reasoned piece on human cloning. An excerpt: It is true, of course, that religious believers have been prominent among opponents of cloning. But in general, their position has not rested on doctrines about, say, ensoulment, still less on any belief that God has revealed, […]
I just thought I'd point out this article in The New York Times. I've always liked math, well maybe that's not quite true. I liked math up to the point that I took multivariable calculus. I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm one of the few journalists to have successfully completed 4 quarters […]