An interesting column in the New Scientist begins: At a recent dinner at the University of Oxford, a senior researcher in atmospheric physics was telling me about his coming holiday in Thailand. I asked him whether he was concerned that his trip would make a contribution to climate change—we . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Alan Jacobs , I have read the latest excerpt from The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs . “I will restore your sense of childlike wonder,” he vows. “There is nothing you can do to stop me.” Hold that thought. The excerpt in question reads thus: Did you know that now, . . . . Continue Reading »
I know it’s off topic, but browsing on the Sports Illustrated website, I came across these two photos of pitchers in motion: Dwight Gooden in 1985, and Randy Johnson in 1996. The human arm isn’t supposed to do that, is it? Not the thousands of times a professional pitcher throws toward . . . . Continue Reading »
Citizen testimony at the Santa Cruz City Council: This is the way the world ends . . . whimper. . . . . Continue Reading »
The ship is taking on water and beginning to list a’starboard. The CBO has reported that a crucial reform that was going to help make it all affordable, won’t save much money at all. From the story:For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to . . . . Continue Reading »
I am worried that we have just begun to hear about the depth of corruption that the case of the Brooklyn human kidney broker will expose. Apparently, poor Israelis were paid $10,000 apiece for a kidney, that were then sold for $160,000. But here’s the really scary part: They came here for the . . . . Continue Reading »
A human kidney broker—he called himself a “matchmaker”—has been busted as part of a series of corruption raids in Brooklyn. From the story:Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a “matchmaker,” but his business wasn’t romance. Instead, . . . . Continue Reading »
Both Instapundit and National Review point today to a column in the Times of London—a column by Antonia Senior that identifies the religious character of environmentalism. True enough, but Senior’s analysis is a little odd, and it is proof, in its way, of how little religious thinking is . . . . Continue Reading »
Since we have a category for indulgences here, I thought this item might be of interest to our readers. I want one. CORRECTION: I want one of those calendars of indulgences, I mean. Though I always want a reader or two as well . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
This past Wednesday, July 22, of course was the feast of Saint Mary Magdalene. In honor of the day, The Anchoress wrote an insightful meditation on tradition’s identifying her with the woman caught in adultery, to which many commenters, including me, responded spiritedly. I have been interested . . . . Continue Reading »
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