Since a lot of readers of this blog are pro-space travel, I thought they might be interested in the answer to the question, “How long can a human live unprotected in space? ” The most fascinating part is how NASA found out this deadly information: At NASA’s Manned Spacecraft . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Since it’s a slow news day and there’s not much else to write about, I thought I’d offer some unsolicited career advice to new high school and college graduates. Admittedly, its not ground-breaking guidance. But I thought someone might benefit from hearing that they . . . . Continue Reading »
In the pages of the Wall Street Journal , Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy. The debate . . . . Continue Reading »
Advocates of same-sex marriage often justify their radical position by claiming that homosexual matrimony is akin to interracial marriage. Frank Beckwith explains why the analogy fails : While doing research for an academic paper on the topic of same-sex marriage and political liberalism, I was . . . . Continue Reading »
Returning from seeing the devastation near his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi, Russell Moore reflects on the failures of Christians to give due consideration to environmental protection : For too long, we evangelical Christians have maintained an uneasy ecological conscience. I include myself in . . . . Continue Reading »
Legatus Magazine asked me to write a piece on the recent successes in assisted suicide advocacy. I said yes, I wrote, and it is now out.I begin with a brief recitation of the history of modern assisted suicide advocacy, starting with the failed attempt to place a legalization initiative on the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Los Angeles Times reports that an experiment in Europe has confirmed that neutrinos have mass . The article suggests that this shows that massive neutrinos may account for a “large proportions” of mass in the universe. As with most science related articles in the mass media, this one . . . . Continue Reading »
I really like Canada and Canadians. (In fact, I am going there next week.) Alas, the vaunted Canadian health care system is sinking in a red ink sea and may be ultimately unsustainable. From the story:Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s . . . . Continue Reading »
N.B. please note the change in by-line for this posting.It has always been a most curious matter. As an advocate of traditional Christian practices of respect for human dignity, I have always called the attention of my ethics students to Immanuel Kant’s argument for this dignity. Traditionally . . . . Continue Reading »
My how time flies. SHS has been one of the First Things blogs for a year now, and so I thought I’d analyze how it’s going.I accepted the offer to switch to FT because I thought it would improve my numbers—then growing nicely—and my breadth of penetration into the . . . . Continue Reading »
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