That's my response to Google's wanting my personal information, my whereabouts, my browsing habits--whatever they want, they can have it, now…
Read moreFriday is science day on this blog (sometimes) and it is most certainly Science day, ie, the day that my favorite scientific journal is published. A…
Read moreI assume, or at least very much hope, that all readers of this blog are aware of the case of Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantanamo this …
Read moreI'm still on a break until Wednesday, when I hope to be back in blogging action, so in the meantime please read this interesting interview with …
Read moreBetween deadlines and travel I have been neglecting the blogging the past couple of days, and now taking a few days in London to visit family and fri…
Read moreToday's New York Times carries an interesting article entitled "Aides Say No Pardon for Libby Irked Cheney," by Jim Rutenberg and Jo …
Read moreI can't say it any better than my journalist/blogger pal/colleague Marc Cooper, an expert on things south of the (U.S.) border. Just as in Cuba,…
Read moreWhile I hold the front in Paris, my human evolution team colleagues Elizabeth Culotta and Ann Gibbons are in Chicago reporting from the annual meetin…
Read moreAlison Des Forges, one of the world's leading experts on the Rwanda genocide of 1994, was killed in the Buffalo airplane crash. You can read abou…
Read moreA team in Leipzig, Germany has announced a rough draft of the Neandertal nuclear genome, which promises to tell us--eventually--a lot more not only a…
Read moreNo one can touch Glenn Greenwald when it comes to exposing not only the unconstitutional actions of the U.S. government but the complicity of those j…
Read moreThis is a 3 1/2 month old baby named Jaden Mack, from a village in Wales. He is now dead, killed a Staffordshire bull terrier and a Jack Russell at h…
Read moreAlarm bells are ringing in Congress as Republicans and some Democrats balk at the price tag for getting the economy back on track. Funny, but I don&…
Read moreThat's what executives like Bank of America CEO Kenneth D. Lewis (pictured here) must be asking themselves as President Obama reportedly prepares…
Read moreIf anyone is wondering why Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is not a member of President Barack Obama's …
Read moreBack in 2002, a team working at Blombos Cave in South Africa reported finding two 77,000 year old pieces of ochre (one of which is pictured here) etc…
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