A New York Times Magazine article raises an issue I've been thinking a lot about lately. If you are, as I am, a scientist concerned ab...

"To live outside the law you must be honest" -Bob Dylan I just finished "Gang Leader for a Day", a memior in which socio...

The New York Times has an article on eminent physicist Freeman Dyson's skepticism of climate change arguments. Several passages struck...

One of the joys of writing a blog like this is receiving comments from people I've never met in real life, but who have stumbled upon my...

1. Eduardo Porter has an excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times comparing the evolution of huge bonuses for bankers to the evolution of exce...

Last post we discussed a theory for the origin of life on earth, and we found that a proper definition of life is necessary to even begin a...

First of all, you may have notied something a little different here. I am now a member of Field of Science, a new network of science blogs....