Science & Technology
The Jobs Speech Obama Should Give
Solving unemployment requires stripping away unnecessary regulations, encouraging entrepreneurs, and restructuring the American economy.
The Conservative Reversal on Science
Magical thinking is no substitute for verifiable facts.
"Science" When It Suits Them
Forget about creationism and start worrying about the left's faith-based devotion to government.
The Myth of Pristine Nature
A review of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
The Great 9/11 Dust Debate
Science finds no link between WTC dust and cancer. Politicians want to pay for treatment anyway.
A Trick of the Mind
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.
Why Are People "Irrationally" Generous to Strangers?
New research finds that nice guys tend to finish first.