Listen to this episode of Point of Inquiry. It includes an interview with Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s widow, who cowrote Cosmos and Contact. That’s good enough (although the sound quality of her connection is not so good), but what will really get you fired up is the last half of the podcast contains last public […]
Ensconced at a conference center in North Carolina near Abel‘s and Bora‘s home turf since Saturday, I appear to have missed an update on the story of Starchild Abraham Cherrix. As you may recall, he is a 16 year old who fought for the right to pursue “alternative” therapy over evidence-based medicine to treat his […]
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Here’s something that tells me, that should I ever visit Russia, I will need to be very, very careful crossing the street or going anywhere near traffic:
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I’m still kind of scratching my head over this one. It’s preaching to the converted and is not particularly illuminating. Surely they could have come up with something better. (Via the bioethics web log.)
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This reminds me of what the result might be were Monty Python to do a public service announcement encouraging organ donation, except Monty Python would have done it in drag rather than using a real female:
