It is still less than a year since the first human IPSCs were derived. One of its supposed downsides as a technique was the need to use retro viruses to effectuate the change from differentiated cell (e.g., skin, or other type of body cell) into pluritpotent stem cell. The fear was this could lead . . . . Continue Reading »
“Pugnacious” takes on quite literal meaning when applied to Russia’s prime minister. With his new video, “Let’s Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin,” the ex-KGB operative shows off his wicked awesome martial arts skills. In isolation this seems exhibitionistic enough, . . . . Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to kill rather than ease suffering. A new study, however, belies this notion. Having . . . . Continue Reading »
It turns out that medieval church windows made for the glory of God were also good for your health : The glaziers who created gold-painted stained glass windows for medieval churches in Europe inadvertently developed a solar-powered nanotech air-purification system. According to Zhu Huai Yong, an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Swiss have overtaken the Dutch as the prime harbingers of things to come in the Culture of Death. As it grants individual intrinsic dignity to plants, its Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to assisted suicide for the mentally ill. Now, a debate is opening, the end point of which is . . . . Continue Reading »
Touching on a subject all too neglected in this campaign, Laura Ingraham discusses abortion with Gov. Sarah Palin. . . . . Continue Reading »
I am restarting the poll I posted earlier because commenters complained, and properly, that I had not done a good enough job creating choices. So, I have added two excellent suggestions. One more time! What is the most important purpose of society? ( . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian Human Rights organizations are justly praising British foreign secretary David Miliband for condemning the Iranian Parliament for their draft apostasy bill: [W]e deplore the way in which the Iranian Parliament is also now discussing a draft penal code that would set out a mandatory death . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature is a Frenchman with the marvelously French name of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio . Perhaps his writing is quite as marvelous as his name, but the terms in which the Nobel committee praises him make me suspicious of their criteria. Much . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a a sample of the Times’ (London) review, via Arts & Letters Daily , of Rowan Williams’ new book on Dostoevsky: There are many insights in Dostoevsky: Language, faith and fiction which will illumine its subject’s novels, and which could only have come from this . . . . Continue Reading »
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