Ryan Sayre Patrico

Here’s some troubling news from the Wall Street Journal : In a striking shift, Pfizer Inc. will abandon efforts to develop medicines for heart disease, as part of a broad research reshuffling it announced Tuesday. Pfizer will be leaving a field that includes its cholesterol-lowering drug . . . . Continue Reading »

P.J. O’Rourke at the Los Angeles Times offers a hilarious yet meaningful reflection on his encounter with cancer and how the experience has given him a healthy appreciation of death: I looked death in the face. All right, I didn’t. I glimpsed him in a crowd. I’ve been diagnosed . . . . Continue Reading »

Now available online for your listening pleasure: First Things features editor R.R. Reno interviews two authors featured in our October issue, Bruce D. Porter and Gerald R. McDermott, on their answers to the question “Is Mormonism Christian?” Both interviews can be heard below, and the . . . . Continue Reading »

This month we’ve heard Amanda Shaw and Ryan T. Anderson expound on the benefits of Catholic education. Never one to shy away from a good conversation, Pope Benedict XVI offered his two cents on the topic yesterday during an address to representatives of Italian Catholic educational centers: . . . . Continue Reading »

As you already know, the current issue of First Things features a fascinating exchange between Bruce D. Porter and Gerald R. McDermott on whether Mormonism is Christian. Equally fascinating is this interview from the Zenit News Agency in which Mormon physician Dr. Joe Stanford describes the . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this month, Anne Barbeau Gardiner wrote in her article “A Lesson in Deep Ecology”: Deep ecologists reject anthropocentrism, according to which human beings have irreducible value because they are made in the image of God; instead they embrace ecocentrism, according to which . . . . Continue Reading »

Forty Days for Life , a community-based pro-life group, kicks off their campaign of prayer, fasting, and presence today. According to the group’s website: Forty Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own . . . . Continue Reading »

In 2004, South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk shocked the world by announcing he had successfully cloned human embryos in his lab. Key parts of Hwang’s research were later shown to be phony, however, and the scientist was indicted in 2006 on “embezzlement and bioethics law violations . . . . Continue Reading »

NASA has commissioned a twenty-eight-year-old science communication student from south Wales to write rap songs about space: A postgraduate student who uses his love of hip-hop to make science easier to understand has been commissioned by space agency NASA to write a rap. Jonathan Chase, who is . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week, we read about the twenty-year-old college student who was able to access Gov. Sarah Palin’s email account using information he culled from Google. In an interesting turn of events , federal investigators have now revealed that the culprit, David Kernell, son of Democratic state . . . . Continue Reading »