Ryan Sayre Patrico

From the Archdiocesan Press Office : His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed His Excellency, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee, to the Archdiocese of New York. Archbishop Dolan has served as the Archbishop of Milwaukee since 2002. He will be the 13th Bishop and 10th . . . . Continue Reading »

From the Boston Globe : Merel Kindt, a clinical psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, has found that use of a common high blood pressure drug may help disrupt the process that leads to the brain encoding a fearful memory. Kindt and colleagues showed pictures of spiders to study subjects, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Rob Stein at the Washington Post writes : “At the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Mass., graduate students and other scientists paid with federal grants are eagerly awaiting the day when they can contribute their eureka moments to projects that are forbidden under the current . . . . Continue Reading »

On the Intercollegiate Studies Institute ‘s website, you can find an excerpt from David Novak’s latest book, In Defense of Religious Liberty . A sample to whet your appetite: How one justifies a public stance that is consistent with one’s theology without invoking that theology as . . . . Continue Reading »

Publisher’s Weekly says of Barbara Oakley’s latest book, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend : Borne out of a quest to understand her sister Carolyn’s lifelong sinister behavior (which, systems engineer Oakley . . . . Continue Reading »

Only one President of the United States ever patented an invention: Abraham Lincoln. The New Atlantis has the story of Honest Abe’s creation. . . . . Continue Reading »

At the Global Spiral , philosophy professor Mark Walker argues that transhumanism is civilization’s best bet for survival: Transhumanism is the thesis that we can and ought to use technology to alter and improve human biology. Some likely targets for the technological makeover of human nature . . . . Continue Reading »

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is reportedly emerging as the Obama administration’s top pick for the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. She would replace former senator Tom Daschle, who withdrew his nomination after it was revealed he owed more than 128,000 dollars in . . . . Continue Reading »

At Slate , William Saletan explains why screening embryos for genetic traits has already begun, and why it will be difficult to stop: Every week, it seems, we’re told that this discovery or that technology might lead to “designer babies.” I’ve heard this so many times that . . . . Continue Reading »

You’ve got to be kidding. . . . . Continue Reading »