Hubris and arrogance have no limits for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine—as I have often shown. But utter cluelessness?Anyway, here’s the story: To promote stem cell awareness, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine held a poetry contest. One of . . . . Continue Reading »
While some claim global warming to be a fact, I can’t help notice that there are some very notable scientists with a profoundly heterodox points of view. And now Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara—who can’t be defined in . . . . Continue Reading »
It is always fun to find a writer you enjoy agreeing with you. Making a point I made yesterday in From Junior High Down to VH1 , Andrew Ferguson writes about the once notorious humor magazine National Lampoon in Read This Review Or . . . from the Wall Street Journal : In the . . . . Continue Reading »
In an important article , Allan Hertzke reflects on the threats to religious liberty in the aftermath of the CLS v. Martinez decision. While he admires Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in that case, he wonders if we are not now reaping what Scalia sowed back in 1990, with his opinion for the . . . . Continue Reading »
As readers of SHS and my other writings know, I think one of the big coming fights in bioethics will be over “medical conscience,” that is, efforts to force Hippocratic and/or pro life doctors to participate in procedures or treatments that involve the taking of human life. Since the . . . . Continue Reading »
Parodies of television commercials tend to be terrible unless (a) they are promoting a library or (b) they feature a Muppet teaching about a preposition. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . to fill what some persist in believing to be a desperate need for good translations of the Good Book. This one’s called the Common English Bible, which is an improvement over existing translations because of . . . what? I’m not sure, except that it appears to use more contractions . . . . Continue Reading »
I love these “Hitler Reacts” videos—which have come from, and attacked, both sides of the political street.This one is by my pal Steve Hayward and has Hitler stunned at the “10-10” video—which I reported about here—blowing up school children to promote . . . . Continue Reading »
1. How Pascal’s Triangle Explains Poetry Poetry . . . is mathematics. It is close to a particular branch of the subject known as combinatorics, the study of permutations – of how one can arrange particular groups of objects, numbers or letters according to stated laws. As early as 200 . . . . Continue Reading »
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has a number of ethnic associations. There is one for African Americans, for Asians and Pacific Islanders, for Latino Ministries, and even an Arab and Middle Eastern heritage group. The associations were created when the ELCA came into being in . . . . Continue Reading »
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