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The Celestial Beehive Mar. 24, 2016
Week of March 27-April 2, 2016 As the flowers of springtime begin to bloom in our part of the world... Read More
By Jove, Jupiter is Back! Mar. 03, 2016
Week of March 6 — 12, 2016 I've missed Jupiter. That may seem like a corny thing to say, but... Read More
Seeing the 'Unseeable' Feb. 18, 2016
Week of Feb. 21-27, 2016 On a recent trip to Africa, I was struck by the remarkable ability of safar... Read More
What Happens When Private Money Pays for Science? Jan. 07, 2016
As a select few accumulate massive fortunes, two schools of thought vie on how to funnel some of tha... Read More
Academic Stalinism Still Thriving Oct. 20, 2015
There are many opinionated people on each side of the political spectrum, including me, but I haven'... Read More
Pope Keeps the Faith on Climate Change Jun. 18, 2015
Pope Francis is releasing an encyclical Thursday on climate change — a draft of which was leak... Read More
For Leftists, It's Open Season on Christians Jun. 16, 2015
If you doubt that Christians are fair game for ridicule by the cultural left, take a look at the hit... Read More
Intellectual Dishonesty Jun. 03, 2015
President Barack Obama's stance, expressed in his 2014 State of the Union address, is that the debat... Read More
Political Science: Heat's on Climate Change Dissidents Mar. 01, 2015
"I am under 'investigation,'" professor Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado Boulder poste... Read More
Measles, Vaccines and Autism Feb. 10, 2015
The current controversy over whether parents should be forced to have their children vaccinated for ... Read More
When Liberals Ignore Science Feb. 06, 2015
The New York Times claims that the vaccine controversy we're all talking about raises important ques... Read More
The Rich and Their Anti-Vaccine Quacks Jan. 06, 2015
California parents are refusing to vaccinate their kindergartners at twice the rate of seven years a... Read More
Neil deGrasse Tyson Is a Nice Man Aug. 14, 2014
When I first encountered Neil deGrasse Tyson, I thought, "What a nice man." He was on the TV scree... Read More
Omission Control Jun. 25, 2014
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports cr... Read More
Agnes
Jun. 06, 2014
Eat Without Fear May. 28, 2014
It's easy to scare people about what's in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the f... Read More
Republican Science-Rejection Syndrome Is Hurting All of Us May. 15, 2014
The 2016 Republican presidential primaries are already showing signs of turning into a competition t... Read More
Say 'No' to Bad Science May. 06, 2014
The headline looks like a hoax— saturated fat does not cause heart disease — but it's re... Read More
Reality Whites Apr. 23, 2014
For millions of weight-challenged Americans, the existence of "brown fat" offered a sort of warm and... Read More
Archie
Mar. 25, 2014
