The grave of Nicholas Copernicus found? WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish archeologists believe they have located the grave of 16th-century astronomer and solar-system proponent Nicolaus Copernicus in a Polish church, one of the scientists announced Thursday. Copernicus, who died in 1543 at 70 after challenging the ancient belief that the sun revolved around the earth,… Continue reading

And another thing, says John Derbyshire: I spent last Saturday evening over at Cold Spring Harbor lab with a bunch of geneticists. One of them, a self-described conservative, said something like this: “Biology takes it from the Right and the Left. On the Right we get these ‘Intelligent Design’ nuisances telling us that one of… Continue reading

John Derbyshire on why some American Catholics need to wise up: There is, to judge from my mailbag, a widespread opinion that adherence to Darwininian biology is ungodly, if not actually atheistic. To the attention of NRO readers holding that opinion, I commend Francisco Ayala. Ayala is a working biologist who is also an ordained… Continue reading

Katie Roiphe puts Maureen Dowd…um, in her place. In fact, Dowd’s most compelling example of this rarefied, lonely demographic of woman too successful for love is herself. As Dowd would have it, men simply find her intelligence, her status, her wit too daunting. (A friend called her up to complain that her Pulitzer Prize would… Continue reading

So, the Boston Red Sox bid adieu to Theo Epstein, courtesy of the town’s worst hack: As another man once said, “all this negativity that’s in this town sucks.” As any Boston sports fan knows, Shaughnessy’s column was just the latest in an interminable string of ad hominem attacks, veiled and unveiled. He did it… Continue reading