This shooter is mentally ill. This other shooter is a terrorist. Or perhaps this shooter cracked under economic pressures. And this other shooter cracked under anti-religious racism and the pressures of war. Whenever these violent outbursts occur, I never feel that the explanations for them are adequate. Yet how we explain them — and our [...]

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Carl Zimmer takes issue with George Will’s “see no evil” approach to global warming and the Washington Post’s mamby-pamby fact-checking: Will ignores the fact that climate change is a noisy, long-term process. Today it is cooler at my house than it was yesterday. That does not mean that next week I will wake up to [...]

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A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports yet another huge gap between the American scientific community and the public at large. According to the NYTimes, the main areas are “climate change” (a euphemism for “global warming” as poor in content as “enhanced interrogation techniques” is to “torture”), evolution, and the value of research [...]

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QScribe over at Pam’s House Blend takes on charges that criticism of Christianity and its role in homophobia is “uncivil.” Whether people want to admit it or not, the way Fred Phelps and Benedict XVI talk about [lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered] is consistent with the way we’ve been treated by the Christian church for [...]

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Cartoon by Chris Madden NASA has uncovered the original analog tapes recording the first moon landing 40 years after they were lost shortly after they were shot. According to the Sunday Express, the tapes will provide a clearer picture of the Apollo 11 crew’s activities than the blurrier footage we grown accustomed to. However, viewers [...]

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