Physicist Sean Carroll has an excellent post about evolution being “just a theory”, with good comments to boot.

On NPR’s Science Friday for last week: The [Dover, Pennsylvania] school district made headlines when the board voted to require that science teachers in the district teaching evolution read a statement dealing with the idea of ‘intelligent design’—an idea that holds that the world’s life forms are too complex to have been created without the… Continue reading

One of the greatest film directors of the last generation, Robert Wise, has died at the age of 91. He said one of his favorites was The Haunting (no, not the cheesy remake).

A book seller in California has found a copy of my first novel, which I circulated in pod and pdf, and is selling it for… $69 (as if!).

Rafat Ali says: Apple’s iTunes Adds Video Podcasts [by rafat] : So says this WSJ story: Apple has quietly added video to its recently launched podcasting integration. It is allowing podcasters to submit video programs, in addition to audio, to the iTunes podcasting directory. The latest version of Apple’s iTunes software, released last week, allows… Continue reading