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

Could this be the end of the line for computer magazine publishers?

David Hogberg explains why he thinks Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens are being dangerously silly.

Face it: the so-called “Famous Monsters of Filmland” may have scared us as children, but they were mostly misunderstood creatures who weren’t malicious or intentionally monstrous. Now, however, we are forced to confront real-life monsters who will truly make it difficult to get to sleep this Halloween (being so close to Election Day and all).… Continue reading

Happy 35th Birthday to the Internet!