Not that bin Laden—his son, Omar, one of the terrorist’s nineteen children. He wants to dispel the myth that all Muslims are terrorists and become “an ambassador for peace .” Fine. Step one: Cough up the old man. We’re not buying that he doesn’t have email: . . . . Continue Reading »
In other bioethics news . . . A group of scientists in California is reporting that they have successfully created human clones. The AP story and NBC video are here . The paper, in the journal Stem Cells , is here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this fall, the Connecticut Catholic bishops decided to comply with a state law requiring all hospitals to administer the morning after pill—Plan B. In a daily article for our homepage, Michael Augros wrote an open letter to the bishops asking them to reconsider. Augros, a professor of . . . . Continue Reading »
Film at eleven . Outrageous! Next thing you know they’ll be telling us that spaghetti really comes from China, or that french fries come from Belgium, or that Catherinie d’Medici’s Florentine chefs are really the inventors of French cuisine! Or worse : That the fortunes in fortune . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m registered to vote in Belmont, the small suburb of Boston, and since I will be in New York on primary day, February 5, I requested an absentee ballot, which arrived today. On the left is a simple column with the usual suspects, where I get to select my “presidential . . . . Continue Reading »
A peer reviewed study claims to have created the first human cloned embryos, actually, the first cloned embryo. No stem cells derived. I warned readers that the iPSC breakthrough would redouble efforts among some scientists to successfully clone human embryos, and predicted that the derivation of . . . . Continue Reading »
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down recently a free-speech decision that is raising some eyebrows and might be of interest to readers. Of particular interest, perhaps, is the fact that the majority opinion in the case, Berger v. City of Seattle , was written by . . . . Continue Reading »
Fair enough, Jody, but I did make the distinction between the inchoate form and the finished work, and also the role an artist’s oeuvre might play in granting a special status even to unfinished work. (As for the title: How else am I going to get those RSS feeder readers to click?) As for the . . . . Continue Reading »
No surprise here: The UK’s “we never say no” Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has okayed the attempt to create cloned human embryos using cow eggs. The reason for this approach is the dearth of human eggs, the reasons for which we have discussed here before at . . . . Continue Reading »
I think your metaphor , of colorizing film or tearing down buildings, will not work for Nabokov’s unpublished, unfinished work , Anthony. Even your title of “burning books” doesn’t quite catch it, for the text from Nabokov isn’t yet a book. In other words, this . . . . Continue Reading »
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