New Scientist reports on a new procedure to keep track of embryos and egg cells during in vitro fertilization: microscopic bar codes . These mouse eggs were tagged by injecting microscopic silicon bar codes into their perivitelline space, the gap between the cell membrane and an outer membrane . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning “On the Square,” R.R. Reno makes an impassioned plea for the necessity of art. In the face of “diseases to cure,” and “environmental disasters to prevent,” it can be tempting to think of art as a luxury we can’t afford. Quite the contrary, Reno . . . . Continue Reading »
Former President Bush is a controversial fellow, but not too many of even his most bitter enemies oppose his laudable effort to fight AIDS in Africa and other poor countries. Today, writing in the Washington Post, he reminds us of the importance of the issue. From “America’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in Policy Review , Mary Eberstadt reviews The End and the Beginning , George Weigel’s new biography of Pope John Paul II and offers a useful short summary of the pope’s long struggle with Communist authorities who knew how dangerous he was. Intelligence reports to KGB . . . . Continue Reading »
Might this be a creative examination of what a world without a Creator would look like? Is this what the professor had in mind when he gave his students this assignment? I doubt it, but, then, God works in mysterious ways. . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news as it breaks: Euthanasia goes down in Scottish Parliament, 85-16-2. And it was a free vote, meaning no party pressure. That’s huge. Well done . . . . Continue Reading »
This is why people hate the UN, its bureaucratic functionaries, and the swarms of NGO camp followers that attend international “problem solving” conferences: In a follow up to the Copenhagen debacle, GWHs may have flown from all over the world to Cancun, Mexico, to fight . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a little heavy-handed in its satire, but very funny anyway, but maybe I’m just a grumpy middle-aged guy who doesn’t have the energy to be post-anything. Though even if that’s true, the satire of hip Evangelicalism is still funny. My thanks to Joseph Knippenberg for . . . . Continue Reading »
Advent is the great season of preparation for the greatest of all gifts: Christ Himself. But as our culture makes all too obvious, this is also a season of high commercialism. As Fr. George Rutler from Our Saviour Parish in New York City reminds us: The season of Advent is lyrically beautiful if . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend responding to my I Was Ignorant, and You Taught Me , Monday’s “On the Square” column, said he’d had a long correspondence with a friend who kept demanding to know why the Bible didn’t say anything about life on other planets. This is important for us to know, . . . . Continue Reading »
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