Every Wednesday, we review a selection of new and upcoming books addressing a specific aspect of environmentalism. Today we're recommending books about food and its relation to the environment . Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms  (by Nicolett...

William Saletan of Slate compares stem-cell research to torture: On Monday, President Obama lifted the ban on federal funding of stem-cell research using destroyed human embryos. If you support this research, congratulations: You won. Now for your next challenge: Don’t lose your soul. The best...

Most of the people who so disliked the policies and administration of George Bush wanted to see him impeached - all legal-like and proper. The right isn't so kind and decent to Obama. After slightly more than 50 days in office, the wingnuttery on cable TV want to see armed rebellion, revolt, or just...

Accelerated sea-level rise? I mentioned a few days ago a report that sea levels are rising faster than predicted by the IPCC. There is another such report just out here. Below is an email on the subject from Professor Dr. Nils-Axel Morner [morner@pog.nu], a leading world authority on sea levels and ...

Oxford University’s previous Charles Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science, Richard Dawkins, visited Michigan State University in East Lansing on March 2nd and 3rd. Prof. Dawkins gave a lecture on “The Purpose of Purpose� to a sold-out crowd at the Wharton Center on the evening...

Schools in Hampshire, England are receiving information on how to incorporate creationism into the classroom. It's hard to judge whether this is good or bad without seeing the actual materials, but I'm inclined to say it's probably a bad idea, since it's supported by people claiming the point is to ...

President Barack Obama issued an executive order that lifted restrictions on federal funding on embryonic stem cell research. This move signals a return to national respect for science and a desire to return America to the forefront of the scientific cutting edge. So of course religious groups are p...

It’s never too early in a new administration for a conspiracy theory or two. First, there’s Obama’s UK fumble, as “Explained” in the NY Post: Perhaps the president simply believes some other nation should replace Britain as our closest friend. (For a while, the Clinton ...

For a very long time I have held what might be termed the Special Theory of Media Incompetence, which is: The mainstream newsmedia is spectacularly incompetent when reporting stories concerning religion, morality, etc. It's hard to read a story about one of these subjects in the mainstream media...

"QUANTUM SHOT" #543 Link - article by M. Christian and Avi Abrams It may not be surgically clean or painless, but it can be very fast We love science and the scientific method - without it we'd be still thinking that lightning was Zeus hurling thunderbolts, the sun was an enormous campfire, and the ...