Will Saletan with a sobering look at the new trend of sex selection in pre-natal screening: If you think of yourself as a techno-progressive—someone who believes, as Barack Obama does, that “maximizing the power of technology” will help fix everything from energy to the environment to health care—the increase in sex selection should give you… Continue reading

The Boskone Panel I was on in February with Br. Guy Consolmagno and Mike Flynn is now viewable online here. Description from the program schedule: What happened in the Middle Ages which lead to the rise of modern science? Why did it happen first in Europe and not elsewhere? How did science grow if the… Continue reading

The Common Ancestry Two-StepDarwin Catholic had an interesting post a few days back on Catholics and Evolution. Of course, the general view has always been that the Church is accepting of the theory (in fact, the Catholic Encyclopedia as far back as 1909 states this). This is a far cry from most evangelical branches of… Continue reading

My kids are going to love this.

Now that the 2008 Baseball Season is officially beginning, Steve Matheson, biologist, Shakespeare lover and die-hard Red Sox fan, weighs in with some thoughts on hitting streaks, randomness, and miracles. What more could anyone want? Here’s to the 2008 season.