Did Google Find Atlantis?
by Ryan Sayre PatricoThat’s what some people using the ocean version of Google maps think . Update: Google says no . . . . . Continue Reading »
Notre Dame 103, Providence 84
by Ryan T. AndersonFirst it happened to Jody’s beloved Hoyas , now to Mary Rose’s Friars . . . . . Continue Reading »
Dolan New Archbishop of NY
by Ryan Sayre PatricoFrom the Archdiocesan Press Office : His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed His Excellency, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee, to the Archdiocese of New York. Archbishop Dolan has served as the Archbishop of Milwaukee since 2002. He will be the 13th Bishop and 10th . . . . Continue Reading »
What’s It All About Alfie? Coup de Culture Hitting UK Hard
by Wesley J. SmithIt has been a very dispiriting experience to see how things are in the UK. The country’s leadership seems lost in a fog of relativism and intent to destroy many of the cultural attributes of society that made the country great.There is the Brave New Britain, oft written of here, of course. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Coming to Massachusetts on March 14
by Joseph BottumFor our friends north of Boston, I’ll be giving a poetry reading on Saturday, March 14, at 3:00 p.m. at: Jabberwocky Bookshop 50 Water Street Newburyport, Massachusetts Put together by our friends among the Powow River Poets—Rhina Espaillat, A.M. Juster, Michael Cantor, Len Krisak, and . . . . Continue Reading »
SHS in the Telegraph:"Right to Die Can Become Duty to Die"
by Wesley J. SmithAfter three rousing speeches and media appearances with David Prentice in Ireland on cloning and ESCR, I am off today over the Irish Sea to London, where I will speak Monday night in the Parliament Building about assisted suicide. Ahead of the event, I was asked by my sponsors to write a piece for . . . . Continue Reading »
A Teeny-Weeny Room of One’s Own
by Stefan McDanielI’m generally unimpressed by the term movement , which now seems to mean “advocacy by two or more people.” But maybe, just maybe, there is something to the Small House Movement , which (according to The Economist ) “has been around for years, encouraging people to think . . . . Continue Reading »
Team Nancy and the Vicar of Christ
by Amanda ShawEarlier this week at NRO, George Weigel offered some commonsense commentary on Nancy Pelosi’s Wednesday meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. Commonsense commentary about what should be commonsense morality: [Pelosi’s] office’s statement on today’s meeting makes it clear something . . . . Continue Reading »
Fearful Memory? Fuggedaboutit.
by Ryan Sayre PatricoFrom the Boston Globe : Merel Kindt, a clinical psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, has found that use of a common high blood pressure drug may help disrupt the process that leads to the brain encoding a fearful memory. Kindt and colleagues showed pictures of spiders to study subjects, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists Await Action on Stem Cells
by Ryan Sayre PatricoRob Stein at the Washington Post writes : “At the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Mass., graduate students and other scientists paid with federal grants are eagerly awaiting the day when they can contribute their eureka moments to projects that are forbidden under the current . . . . Continue Reading »
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