Jane Goodall the primatologist (and novelist since so much of her work is anthropomorphic, a charge she readily admits), along with fellow primatologist Toshisada Nishida, have won the coveted Leakey Prize, named after Louis Leakey, the famed anthropologist who sought to prove that humans first . . . . Continue Reading »
Why do media so often describe non-dying people who want assisted suicide as terminally ill? Is it on purpose? Mostly, I don’t think so. I think they have accepted a false premise; that assisted suicide is about terminal illness. So when someone who is not dying wants assisted suicide, . . . . Continue Reading »
I am a special consultant to the CBC and proud of it. This new promo video only tells the half of the energetic engagement with bioethical issues in which the CBC engages. A certain gray haired/bearded rapidly aging fellow even makes a brief appearance. Check it out. . . . . Continue Reading »
The romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, for all his earnest and ethereal musings, his Skylarks and his West Winds , is sometimes wonderfully funny. To read some of his poems, one would think he was satirizing himself and his age, only he writes—no, wafts, soars, swoops, descants—with such . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s Los Angeles Times echoes the survey from Faith in Public Life , but mentions a small exception to the general trend: What we’re seeing in these three swing states is the end of the Catholic vote, as conventional political strategists traditionally have expected it to . . . . Continue Reading »
Researchers have known for a while now that piety can help protect a person from depression and anxiety. Now, a new study published online in Psychological Medicine has gone further in developing the relationship between mental health and spirituality by comparing the effectiveness of different . . . . Continue Reading »
New York’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the world’s largest gothic cathedral, offers this on the evening of October 31: a “Halloween Extravaganza & Procession of the Ghouls.” For $15 you can sit in the nave and watch a screening of the silent movie “The . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, the Catholic News Service put out a notice about a survey from Faith in Public Life : The survey showed that young Catholic voters are the most pro-government among voters of any major religious group, even more pro-government than other surveys show the rest of the young population . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m reading Freedom Just Around the Corner , Walter McDougall’s delightful tour of American history from the colonial period to the age of Jackson. His main claim is that Americans are “hustlers,” both in the sense of shrewd, industrious, creative go-getters and in the sense . . . . Continue Reading »
Debby Purdy, the UK woman struggling with progressive MS, went to court seeking an order assuring her that should she want to die, that her husband could assist her and face no legal consequences. (This case was similar to that of Diane Pretty a few years ago.) The trial court refused. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
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