Intelligent Design Is Not Science

Read this statement: The measure from Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler would block higher education institutions from discriminating against or penalizing teachers or students based on their research into intelligent…

Vulcans Rule, Klingons Drool

The Obama Administration has set a new course for US Space policy that embraces arms control. Actually the arms control policy is an old course favored by Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, but not Bush II (is anyone surprised?). President Obama's team will look to international cooperation instead of the "Go it alone" attitude favored by Bush and Cheney.

The Politics of Science

Science writer Chris Mooney (Unscientific America and The Republican War on Science) has a recent column in The Washington Post about how scientists need to approach the general populous in…

Hair Of The Dog?

Whenever I've had a little too much "fun" (and ended up paying for it) my brother would always say, "hair of the dog."  Looks like he had a point. Scientists…