Mead drubs the Times for its poor coverage of Climategate: Admit mistakes? Open up their data? Change the way the work? You mean there was something wrong with the way climate science was operating last year? Is the Times telling us that the climate scientists–on the basis of whose work the whole world is debating… Continue reading
Ever get stuck in the bookstore info counter behind someone like this? Customer: I need to get that book about cookies. It’s something about cookies. Clerk: Cookies. Okay. (types into the computer) umm… there are quite a few books about cookies here. Customer: Well it was on TV the other day. My wife saw it… Continue reading
At last it’s official. I’ll be going to Cambridge University in the UK in June and July: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 25 – Ten prominent journalists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and China have been selected for the sixth annual Templeton–Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science & Religion. Inaugurated in 2004, the fellowships include a… Continue reading
James Corum: One wonders how much longer the Obama Administration can get by without experienced diplomats. Despite the acclaim that America’s mainstream media has heaped on Hillary Clinton over the years, her foreign policy background and experience before becoming Secretary of State was to accompany her husband on foreign trips and preside over “first wives”… Continue reading
Nice interview of astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter on his work in the 1990s revealing how the universe’s expansion rate is accelerating. If he were still alive, Fr. Georges Lemaitre would have been thrilled at this discovery. (Not that he would have stuck his tongue out at Einstein or Fred Hoyle or anything…)