Month: November 2014
In Search of Circumstellar Habitable Zones
Astrobiologists have used the term for many decades. This shell encompasses the distance at which a planet in a fairly circular orbit could maintain liquid water on its surface.
Media Are Indifferent to Euthanasia-Victimized Families
A Belgian chemist and self-described secular humanist describes his agony at the euthanasia killing of his depressed mother.
How Does Modern Medicine Depend on Darwinism?
The question is prompted by a review in the Washington Post of E.O. Wilson’s latest.
Our Early Christmas Gift to You: 12 Days, 12 Ways to Save
What a pleasure to settle into a holiday with a good book to read. Better than one book, of course, is two. Why not twelve?
There’s a Gene for That…Or Is There?
A CNN headline claims, “Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds.” “Genes for,” however, are dangerous words in genetics.