Apparently, physicist Sean Carroll has heard, rats can fly….

The election wasn’t a total loss for Democrat bloggers, according to BusinessWeek.

“Uh…he’s not quite dead, sir.” (via Monty Python)

Just did my civic duty. Ward 7 Precinct 2 voters in Newton, Massachusetts go to a Middle School at the edge of the Massachusetts Turnpike. I walked right in, no lines, to get to the table with my street, etc. Got my ballot, filled it out (no hole punching this time!) and returned to a… Continue reading

I wonder how the “Intelligent Design” crowd is going to handle this: Researchers in the laboratories of Detlev Arendt and Jochen Wittbrodt have discovered that the lightsensitive cells of our eyes, the rods and cones, are of unexpected evolutionary origin ­ they come from an ancient population of light-sensitive cells that were initially located in… Continue reading