The Washington Post reports on a "controversial" meaure that would: increase funding for family planning clinics, expand Medicaid and private health insurance coverage of contraceptives, require hospitals to make emergency contraception available to rape victims, and allocate money for comprehensive sex education programs that teach youths about birth control as…
We have already discussed how much one trillion dollars would buy. Well, the Boston Globe did its own story about this subject, using the more conservative figure of $456 billion (the estimated cost by September). My favorite is where it says $456 billion could have fed and educated the world's…
In the June '07 issue of Scientific American, the article "A Simpler Origin for Life" discusses a new approach for figuring out how life could have spontaneously arisen. The views of evolutionary biologists have evolved over the last few decades from assuming that the extremely unlikely spontaneous formation of simple…
Unfortunately, you'll have to read nearly this entire story to get to the part where the girl credits God with giving her a nearly 3-carat diamond. These sorts of things are where bad science, and faith in false deities, come from. If that girl's parents let her go on believing that God answered her…
Many of us spend a lot of energy wondering whether there is life on Mars, on the moons of Jupiter or elsewhere in the galaxy. If we found life out there, it would make huge headlines. The June 2007 edition of Science has a beautiful photo of an orangutan and…