Plead the First

Pharyngula has an interesting article about mice that have developed the power of regeneration.

Lance Mannion nicely sums up the Republican Modus Operandi (via Science and Politics): It’s another old song from the Republican repertoire. The poor are poor because of their own bad character, goes the chorus, of course, but the verse is like this: Liberal government programs encourage, foster, and make virtues out of the vices that […]

Artwork from a children’s puzzle belonging to one of my kids. Update: For those of you who are unfamiliar with the reference of this post’s title, take a look here.

Starting today, the Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania begins defending its decision to bring Intelligent Design into their biology classes. The school district’s policy is being challenged by eleven parents of students attending one of their high schools who assert that intelligent design is “unscientific and has no place in a science curriculum”. Richard […]

Strobel’s The Case for a Creator, claims to present scientific evidence for a creator. Before evaluating this claim, I think it will be useful to have a working definition of “science”. This one seems pretty straightforward and to the point: The study of the material universe or physical reality in order to understand it. This […]

Alabama and Mississippi are under consideration as potential locations for a new nuclear power plant: A consortium of utilities has picked two sites in Alabama and Mississippi as possible locations for what could be the first nuclear power plant built in the United States in more than three decades. The consortium emphasized that no decision […]

Its consequences are deadly. Its reach was unforseen. Luckily, it’s not happening in real life: Players of Blizzard’s incredibly popular World of Warcraft are reporting the outbreak of a virtual plague that is spreading across major cities in the virtual land of Azeroth, infecting player characters at an alarming rate. The trouble started when Blizzard […]

I’d like to use this post to begin a follow up on a discussion I was having with someone on the News and Record’s Letters to the Editor blog, home to a host of some of the most partisan posters on the Internet. The debate between Evolutionists and Creationists has been going on for quite […]

This is a very cool way to use the Internet: Tipping off the police has never been easier. Law enforcement agencies in the Triad increasingly are using the Internet as a tool to collect and deliver information. This creates a situation where residents can more easily discover what police have found going on in their […]