The concept of global warming has gotten a lot of press in the last few months, what with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth leading a chorus of concerned voices from the scientific and political communities. I saw the movie shortly after it came out, and it certainly influenced some of the lifestyle choices that I’ve […]
From the cutting edge of the world of medicine:
A man who had the world’s first successful penis transplant had to have the organ removed two weeks later because of a problem with his wife.
The 44-year-old father of three children was left with a 0.4 in stump and was unable to urinate or have intercourse after […]
President Bush on the subject of global warming:
“New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment,” Bush said. “And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of […]
Corruption has become somewhat of a buzzword in the political discourse of late, what with überlobbyist Jack Abramoff’s recent legal troubles, which has every possibility of snaring any number of political leaders in ethical traps. But when it comes to corruption in the government, our lawmakers aren’t the only ones we should be paying attention […]
Shame on me for looking to carefully crafted advertising as a cause for optimism.
For several months I’ve been keen to thinking of BP (formerly British Petroleum) as a partial exception to the environmentally-myopic, profit-whoring giant oil companies we’ve come to know and despise. Their latest ad campaign, which chiefly spotlights the subject of carbon […]
Greenland Glaciers Dumping More Ice:
Warmer temperatures over the past decade have sped up the march of Greenland’s southern glaciers to the Atlantic Ocean, where the ice and water they spill contribute more to the global rise in sea levels than previously thought.
Those faster-moving glaciers now dump in a year twice as much ice into the […]
Faithful readers will note that while the topic of Intelligent Design has come up from time to time here, it hasn’t exactly been flagellated from a scientific or philosophical perspective. Truth be told, while it’s fun to crack jokes about flavoring religion with pasta and Hollywood icons, it’s easy to label ID as […]
Though I’m sure nobody missed the Intelligent Design “Special Report” on Hannity & Colmes last night, there was a telling exchange between Alan Colmes and one of the purported founders of ID, Michael Behe. Since the basis of ID involves the concept of certain features of the universe being crafted by a designer, one […]
