Good news on a Saturday morning: A new paper is out touting more advances in understanding the mechanisms of IPSCs. It is written in pure scienceze and is way over my head. But a scientist friend of mine translated it and it appears that the paper’s authors have discovered that two potential . . . . Continue Reading »
Euthanasia is legal in Belgium as well as the Netherlands. And if anything, the Belgians have embraced it with greater fervor than the Dutch. Cases have risen 15% and that is thought to be underreported. From the story: However, the real number of cases is believed to be double that 1% of deaths in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Hastings Center Report is the world’s most prestigious bioethics journal. Articles published in its pages are generally in the mainstream thinking of bioethics discourse and at the heart of the process of debate within bioethics that often leads to changes in public policy—such as . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I commented on Terry Eagleton’s “intriguing ramble” on Peter Conrad’s Creation . A reader, Tracy Altman, writes in to clarify, noting that when Eagleton speaks of creation as a “dismal truth,” he may be obliquely critiquing the Romantic notion of human . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks’ column today offers advice for ” Fresh Start Conservatism .” This jumped out at me: The first group of policies would foster two-parent families. If all American families looked like the intact middle-class ones, we wouldn’t have nationally low education . . . . Continue Reading »
In the June/July issue of First Things , then assistant editor John Rose reviewed a fascinating book about a certain kind of youth culture in Japan. The book was Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger. The culture, more a sociological phenomenon, is . . . . Continue Reading »
Douglas Kmiec—-former dean of the law school at the Catholic University of America, the current chair of constitutional law at Pepperdine University, and the man who chaired Mitt Romney’s Committee on the Constitution—-wrote this article for Slate : ” Reaganites for Obama? . . . . Continue Reading »
The Drudge Report is highlighting this address that President Bush gave yesterday . A taste: Declaring the age of paternalism over, President Bush said Thursday the United States demands clear results for the billions of taxpayer dollars it sends to Africa. He accused other nations of exploiting . . . . Continue Reading »
Piraro believes in animal rights. But so what? He’s also funny. Have a . . . . Continue Reading »
A good concordance will help with references to bees in the Church Fathers, but it’s hard to work on the topic of bees without mentioning the Reverend Jonathan Swift, who (in the 1704 Battle of the Books ) gave the classic metaphorical use, the phrasing of which survives in English to this . . . . Continue Reading »
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