I can understand why Daniel Larison is outraged at Ralph Peters’ column arguing that as a mental exercise we ought to think of Taliban as being alien life forms. Given...
Jim Manzi has given us a much more thorough response than my weaksauce answer to Coyne’s brief against the compatibility of science and religion. As I’m sure your sick of...
The shoe-as-insult bit has now gone global: China denounced a protester at Cambridge University who threw a shoe at Prime Minister Wen Jiabao but nevertheless hailed his visit to Britain...
I’ve dismissed the notion of a “fundamentalist psyche” before, but only in cases in which I believed its bearer was misusing the term to score some sort of political points...
Wired has an interesting write-up of a study comparing the potential of various “climate hacks”–that is, geoengineering schemes for dealing with climate change. These “hacks” essentially fall into two categories:...
I appreciate the Japanese enthusiasm for robots. I really do. I just wish they had chosen a less auspicious name or classification number for this security robot: The prototype T-34,...
