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What Hanukkah Can Teach Us About Preserving Sacred Space
Hanukkah, a festival of light in the darkness of winter, shares much in common with other religions that also...
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James Gates: The Pain and Pleasures of Science
As a ball rolled down an incline, young Sylvester James Gates, along with the other students in his class,...
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Doha Climate Gateway: The Reaction
Countries are working towards a new global agreement on climate change that would, unlike the Kyoto protocol, require cuts...
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Climate Talks Yield Commitment to Ambitious, but Unclear, Actions
The annual United Nations climate change negotiations concluded in Doha after the customary all-night negotiating session and recriminations over...
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Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives
This year a high-school student in Maryland announced that he had invented a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. The...
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1990 Climate Change Predictions Turn Out to Be Accurate
In a blow to those people who believe that global warming predictions are just a lot of hot air,...
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Is Believing in Climate Change “An Insult to God”?
With movements such as young-earth creationism, we certainly have seen examples of religion being shanghaied into the service of...
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Monkeys Show Why It’s Hard to Prove Ancient Human Interbreeding
A bundle of recent genetic studies have suggested that modern humans had sex with Neanderthals thousands of years ago...
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How Convention Centers Are Killing Academic Culture
Setting annual meetings in massive convention centers, plus the cumulative effect of well-intentioned policies for promoting young academics, have...
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The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 Seconds
The annual exercise in futility and finger-pointing that is the United Nations Climate Change Conference will wrap up in...