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Wood I Lie To You? Jan. 10, 2017
My girlfriend found a certain little blue pill in my jeans pocket, and her feelings were hurt. I ex... Read More
A Breakthrough About Breakthroughs Jan. 05, 2017
Oh, to be a scientist 50 or 60 years ago, warning people about the stuff they really needed to know:... Read More
Trump Nixes Pet Projects of Liberal and Conservative Elites Dec. 27, 2016
It's been a tough year for political elites, here and around the world, what with the passage of Bre... Read More
Mothership Of Fools Nov. 22, 2016
This will sound crazy, but...should I tell my girlfriend, the love of my life, that I was abducted ... Read More
How to Not Be Grumpy Oct. 27, 2016
Do you remember the 1993 hit movie "Grumpy Old Men"? It starred Jack Lemmon, who was 68 at the time,... Read More
D.A. Henderson and the Triumph of Science Aug. 26, 2016
At a time when Hillary Clinton gets applause by declaring, "I believe in science," it's worth taking... Read More
Free Condoms -- What Could Go Wrong? Jun. 24, 2016
Remember when the left passionately insisted that public schools distribute free condoms to students... Read More
Let's Talk About Science Jun. 20, 2016
I like to read about science, mostly because I don't understand it very well. I'm at home in a histo... Read More
Seeing the Red Planet May. 12, 2016
Week of May 15-21, 2016 It was Halloween eve, 1938. Millions of war-jittery Americans listened as sp... Read More
La Superba After Dark May. 05, 2016
Week of May 8-14, 2016 Beginning stargazers are often disappointed because they cannot see the glori... Read More
Spotting Elusive Mercury Apr. 07, 2016
Week of April 10-16, 2016 I remember many years ago sitting in Ms. Schnitzer's fourth-grade classro... Read More
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
