George Monbiot explains how it is that the unusually cold winters in Europe lately are actually consistent with, and probably caused by, global warming. Warm, cold, wet, dry, it’s all fodder for the global warming mill. As John at Powerline … Continue reading →
“Funes the Memorious” has long been one of my favorite short stories by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. In it, Borges describes a fictional character who has an accident and becomes unable to forget anything: Funes…reveals that, since his fall … Continue reading →
…found on earth. In California, naturally. All joking aside, this is fascinating. It’s a bacteria that can incorporate arsenic rather than phosphorus into its DNA, expanding the possibilities for the basic building blocks of life.
Continue reading →Professor Harold Lewis has resigned from the American Physical Society in protest over AGW and how it has been treated by the organization. Lewis—who has been a member of the Society for sixty-seven years—doesn’t pull his punches: The giants no … Continue reading →
Those noble savages: maybe not so noble after all.
Continue reading →In the course of this article describing a research study on marriage, fidelity, wages, and divorce, Tracy Corrigan makes the following observation: Munsch found that during a six-year period, an average of 3.8 per cent of male partners and 1.4 … Continue reading →
It seems that all persons with blue eyes are descended from a single common ancestor. Before that moment, which occurred in a lone genetic mutation between six and ten thousand years ago, all human eyes were brown.
Continue reading →Some of you may recall a post I wrote in 2005 about Clive Wearing, the man with such profound memory loss that he lived in a single repeating and ever-changing present moment disconnected from those that had gone before. To … Continue reading →
…which is that Jews are more closely related to other Middle Eastern peoples than they are to the natives of the countries they encountered in their millenia of wanderings, and that they are also very closely related to each other: … Continue reading →
Jon A. Krosnick is a professor of communication, political science and psychology at Stanford University. As such, he no doubt knows how to spin a story, and he has done a bit of that in an op-ed he wrote that … Continue reading →
They both feel the need to be sexually appealing to men. And this may give them something surprising in common. But it’s not all rosy for heterosexual men, either. Women seem to prefer arrogant guys who engage in risky behavior. … Continue reading →
You think babies are just selfish slugs? Think again. According to researcher Paul Bloom (the article is long, but worth reading in its entirety), they have a capacity for empathy, however rudimentary: Human babies, notably, cry more to the cries … Continue reading →