I’m generally unimpressed by the term movement , which now seems to mean “advocacy by two or more people.” But maybe, just maybe, there is something to the Small House Movement , which (according to The Economist ) “has been around for years, encouraging people to think . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week at NRO, George Weigel offered some commonsense commentary on Nancy Pelosi’s Wednesday meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. Commonsense commentary about what should be commonsense morality: [Pelosi’s] office’s statement on today’s meeting makes it clear something . . . . 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 »
The young adults group of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York has organized twenty-four hours of confession at various parishes in New York. From 7:00 AM Friday, March 6 to 7:00 AM Friday, March 7 at at least one parish in the city a priest will be on hand to hear confessions. If you’re . . . . 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 »
The passage of assisted suicide in Washington is not yet causing a major revamping of the political field. Hawaii’s assisted suicide legislation looks like it isn’t going to make it this year. From the story: The Hawaii Legislature will not take up a proposal to allow assisted suicides . . . . Continue Reading »
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