That's United Silly States of America, of course. I just spent my first night on American soil in 4 months, and I can tell you that I slept the s…
Read moreSince I was born in Alaska (before it was a state, even) I suppose I should be thrilled that a fellow citizen of my native state would become preside…
Read moreThe Bush administration, chiefly through its spokesperson Dana Perino , is having a lot of fun debunking Russian "Prime Minister" Vladimir …
Read moreAfter a brief stopover in Paris, I will be returning to Boston this weekend to get ready for the new semester at Boston University, where I am teachi…
Read moreThe news media, and Americans in general, can perhaps be excused for being distracted by the Democratic convention in Denver while very important dev…
Read moreYes, that is the headline of a story in the New York Times today. Here are a few key grafs, which show that the story is indeed about what the head…
Read moreI spent the afternoon at the British Museum today visiting the " Hadrian: Empire and Conflict " exhibition, which continues until October 2…
Read moreI've been disappointed with a number of positions Barack Obama has taken over the past months, but the controversy over Obama's opting out of…
Read moreI am in transit today between Bristol, Stonehenge and London, so today, courtesy of Blogger's email blogging facility, we have a "guest blog…
Read moreI'm still on holiday, and in transit from the Devon countryside to the big city of Bristol today, so just a quickie: A post by Rebecca Curtis in …
Read moreIn this week's issue of Science , I write about the last decade of research at Chauvet Cave in southern France, where spectacular drawings of ho…
Read moreToday's New York Times features an article about John McCain that tells us everything we need to know about why he is not qualified to be Presi…
Read moreI mentioned in an earlier post that I was reading Jane Mayer's new book " The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned in…
Read moreFor the next several days I will be blogging (maybe not quite so often, however) from Devon, England, where I am on a semi-vacation. Until I get out…
Read moreSo far I have held back from a full blog post on the terrible and crucially important war between Russia and Georgia, because I think that the links …
Read moreI've just started reading Jane Mayer's new book, " The Dark Side ," about how the United States turned to torture as a weapon in th…
Read morePaul Krugman, in an opinion piece in today's New York Times entitled "Know-Nothing Politics," raises what might really be the core is…
Read moreThe wife and I were working late at home this evening, so for a little background entertainment we were watching episodes of "The X-files."…
Read moreI hope everyone is paying close attention to the potentially explosive flap over allegations in Ron Suskind's new book, " The Way of the Wor…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW, I report on a new paper in the open access journal Genome Biology suggesting that schizoph…
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