Sharon Keller, Troy Davis, and the Duty of a Death Case Judge Steve Sheppard (from FindLaw), Monday, August 24 No obligation of a judge is more awful than to rule on who should live and who should die...
It’s not over yet! The New York Times today reported on a new challenge to Google’s book scanning project. Read More ?
3rd Century Gaelic-language poet Ossian lies at the center of a giant case of 18th Century copyright infringement! Well, there wasn’t exactly a copyright involved, let’s call this a case of...
Writing for BeliefNet, author and philosopher Michael Ruse writes on religion and science, and why New Atheism doesn’t engage either end properly. In my seventieth year I find myself in a very peculiar...
At NRO’s The Corner, books editor Mike Potemra discusses Alan Petigny’s The Permissive Society. “…much of what the Sixties-haters deplore actually goes back to the Fifties.” Read More ?
Writing for The Huffington Post, author Jonathan Weiler parses criticisms of Obama’s health bill, arguing that the nightmarish scenarios that they imagine under government health care are already...
Wow. Astronomers, take a look: astronomers have assembled a 3-D image of the recent ultra field Hubble images. Aimed at a black patch of sky, the telescope revealed thousands of individual galaxies. Here,...
Stephen Norwood applied the Page 99 Test to his The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower. It “focuses on Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler’s expulsion of Robert Burke for leading a...
Michael Duncan A book on Darwinism by the other great theorist of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Two preliminary essays to On the Origin of Species. Family reminiscences of Jane Austen gathered...
In today’s New York Times, a wonderful piece – the cool profession of the future: statistician. My mathematician friends rejoice! Read More ?
Debbie Balkaran writes on Charles Bonnet and the syndrome that bears his name “His mind makes merry with the images. His brain is a theatre where the state machinery puts on performances which are all...
Does the summer heat have your liquid helium-cooled superconductivity in a quench? That’s nothing compared to the current state of the Large Hadron Collider. Read More ?