Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The Answer to Welfare is Marriage???

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National Public Radio is running a series this week on Marriage Education. The first part of the series examines a federally-backed marria...

Who gets to create knowledge?

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Thanks to Karama Neal for this lead: a good NPR story on women in science . Should be of interest to anyone who was incensed by Lawrence Sum...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Cognitive liberty and the Supreme Court

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The article by Jeff Rosen in the New York Times about Roberts expresses concerns about the future of privacy rights in front of the United S...
Sunday, August 28, 2005

Judge Roberts v. the future--today's NY

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Today's NYT magazine has an article by Jeffrey Rosen on the questions legislators should be asking John Roberts . Rather than limit the...
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China Outlaws Sexual Harassment

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Even though equality between the sexes has been a part of the CCP's agenda from its early days, "women hold up half of the sky,...

Chickie-Nobs, anyone?

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Maybe it's just me, but every time I see this headline , I can't help but think of the genetically engineered chicken-nugget-produci...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

The myth of "moral hazard"

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Malcolm Gladwell has a nice piece in this week's New Yorker on the difference between social insurance and actuarial insurance in healt...

"Science Friday" on stem cells

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Caught Science Friday on KUOW last night and heard Ira Flatow interview Mark Noble, a stem-cell researcher at the University of Rochester (N...
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Yeah, but does it taste like chicken?

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Tissue Engineering, which holds the promises for solving the ethical dilemmas of embryonic stem cell research and organ donation, may now a...
Friday, August 26, 2005

You Can’t Keep a Good Social Darwinist Down

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Once more Richard Lynn, Pioneer Fund scholar , is trying to convince us that women are naturally stupider than men. In November, British Jou...
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Sure beats an ultra low calorie diet...

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Interesting article in the Washington Post today about a hormone in mice that can extend life span. -- Although it is years away from human...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Another painful issue...(I didn't think anyone was doing episiotomies any more!)

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EurekaAlert reports on a study published in the September 2005 issue of Birth: Issues in PreNatal Care that rates of episiotomy are still h...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

When Treating Women like Men Creates Inequality

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Both ABC News and Newsweek reported on a story regarding women and lung cancer this past week. The rate of lung cancer among women is gro...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

A Painful Issue...

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The Washington Post describes a controversial article published in JAMA ; researchers at University of California San Francisco reviewed doz...
Monday, August 22, 2005

Navy wife loses abortion case

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Last Thursday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the wife of a Navy sailor who had aborted an anencephalic fetus. The woman, ...
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Researchers successfully "reprogram" adult cell

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Today's Washington Post reports that a team of Harvard researchers have successfully fused an embryonic stem cell with an adult skin ce...

Big Blue and the Simulated Brain

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Sounds like the title of children's book, doesn't it? -- But seriously, Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...
Friday, August 19, 2005

Apparently, this IS a joke....

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Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawe...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

I Sing the Body Electric...

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As a recent edition of Popular Science illustrates , we're facing emerging technologies ranging from exogenous pregnancies to implantabl...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

A Transcendental Experience?

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One of the more interesting blogs launched recently is Numenware , a blog about Neurotheology. Is God a function of our brains or was the ne...