Edward T. Oakes, S.J. on Cardinal Schönborn’s latest book: …Schönborn can be quite witty. He recounts the story of one of his brother Dominicans harping at table every day about a book he planned to write that was going to prove that man is not essentially different from the other animals. Finally, another Dominican grew… Continue reading

Steve Matheson, writing up more good science: 1. Does the evolution of new features require new, rare, mutations in major genes? Perhaps this seems like a stupid question to you. Anti-evolution propagandists are eager to create the impression that evolutionary change only occurs when small numbers of wildly improbable mutations somehow manage to help and… Continue reading

A great summary of the ’07 ALCS by The Sports guy: Baseball is the only sport where a single person can shut up 55,000 people for an extended period of time and eventually break their will. This was one of those times. Just a virtuoso performance. Yep. It gets better with the emails he received:… Continue reading

The Coming of H.264: H.264 is already supported in virtually every corner of the digital video universe. Now, with big internet players like Adobe, Google, and Apple behind it, H.264 is poised to become the format of convergence where all devices have access to an expanding universe of content available via physical media or high-speed… Continue reading

Huge. Stayed up for the whole game….which was a lot closer than the final tally suggests.