I didn’t know about John C. Wright till, this winter, the science-fiction writer and reviewer Robert Chase sent me a note suggesting I read Wright’s Golden Age series. You gotta love Wright, though, for this recent response to a reviewer (noted over at the always-interesting Postmodern . . . . Continue Reading »
Tune into Secondhand Smoke to find out why . . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare will tax some unhealthy lifestyles. Now, we should add users of sunbeds to the list. From the story:The International Agency for Research on Cancer announced Wednesday that it had elevated sunbeds, used by tens of millions of people for tanning, to its highest cancer risk . . . . Continue Reading »
A book is put together like a puzzle. The first piece is the proposal that gets you the gig. Then the research. Writing 80.000 words (in this case) comes next. Then editing. My upcoming book has passed these hurdles.We now have a rough of the book cover, reproduced on your left. This is not . . . . Continue Reading »
I reported earlier here at SHS about a published paper in which scientists claimed to have made sperm from embryonic stem cells. That paper has now been retracted. From the story:A paper that made international headlines earlier this month is causing headaches for its authors. Late last week several . . . . Continue Reading »
The caved linden wood crucifixes offered by this site are not bad, but this saccharine head, I think, just doesn’t work:and this is even worse:Sleeping through the crucifixion. . . . . Continue Reading »
If Barbara Coombs Lee, the assisted suicide zealot who heads Compassion and Choices, is for something, run in the other direction as fast as you can! Lately, she has been opining about health care reform over at the Huffington Post—but what is amazing is that she seems to have forgotten things . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Image , Santiago Ramos joins First Things ’ campaign to colonize Mars. Slowly but surely, we’ll reach a majority: We seem to aim at so little today, to have such small interests in mind. No wonder the biotech visionaries have gained a hearing: They claim to be going somewhere. . . . . Continue Reading »
And men, well, we’re as “aesthetically unappealing as [our] caveman ancestors.” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Nordic philosopher and priest Anders Chydenius (1729-1803)—the “Adam Smith of the North”— once asked : Would the Great Master, who adorns the valley with flowers and covers the cliff itself with grass and mosses, exhibit such a great mistake in man, his masterpiece, that . . . . Continue Reading »
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