Here’s just another indication of the potential power of ethically derived stem cells to alleviate human suffering. In rat studies, the stem cells improved the creation of adult stem cells and improved inflammation in aged animals. From the study:The results demonstrate that a single . . . . Continue Reading »
I was very pleased to hear this morning that the 2008 Templeton Prize has been awarded to Michal Heller (who publishes in English under the name Michael Heller), a Polish priest, physicist, philosopher, and theologian. Here is an excerpt from what I said about him in the October 2004 issue of First . . . . Continue Reading »
Jack Kevorkian is running for Congress. From the story: Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is planning to run for Congress in Michigan. Kevorkian is on parole since being released from prison last year.He tells The Oakland Press newspaper that he plans to run without party affiliation for the . . . . Continue Reading »
On February 25, we posted as the Daily Article an interview I conducted with Timothy Keller , author of the new bestseller The Reason for God . It was picked up by quite a few, mostly evangelical blogsites and has resulted in our being added to a hefty list of blogrolls—something we certainly . . . . Continue Reading »
According to this story in the U.K. Telegraph , Gordon Brown’s Labour government is set to push through Parliament a bill that would, among other things, “allow the creation of animal-human embryos—created by injecting animal cells or DNA into human embryos or human cells into . . . . Continue Reading »
David Mamet has had a political conversion . . . of sorts. I remember an interview Mamet gave around the time Glengarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer, to the effect that he found there to be many beautiful things about capitalism, which you would not have expected from the guy who seemed only to . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, all of the patents over ESCR held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have been upheld by the Patent Office. From the story: The rulings mean the foundation will continue to control primaryintellectual property rights to embryonic stem cell research in the United States. If that . . . . Continue Reading »
Mrs. Jones learns the importance of choosing a doctor with the right specialty.Ingrid Newkirk is right! Birds are just like . . . . Continue Reading »
In case you’ve been asleep the last twenty-four hours, here’s the news: New York’s crusading populist Democratic governor, the once-high-flying Eliot Spitzer, has been identified as “Client Number Nine” in the indictment of an international prostitution ring. MSNBC is . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s hard to bring sex and mathematics together, but I like a challenge, and so I direct your attention to this story in the UK Telegraph about the changing sexual habits of the French. Yes, I know, other than for the math, who cares?—but stick with me for a moment. The story describes a . . . . Continue Reading »
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