Science
Egg Recall Hatches More Regulations
More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
From Yuck to Yippee!
What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
Live Forever, Or Die Trying
Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.
Fixing the Global Warming Establishment with New Lipstick
A review of the IPCC process is a huge missed opportunity
The Case for Bifurcated Trials
How we can narrow the odds of seeing another Cameron Todd Willingham.
Killed on a Technicality
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wants to execute a man based on discredited forensic testimony from a disgraced dentist.
Inconvenient Facts About Stem-Cell Research
Understanding Judge Royce Lamberth's recent decision
North Carolina's Corrupted Crime Lab
A damning state report finds systematic abuse, including in death penalty cases.
Peak Everything
Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorous?
Citizen Science, Microfinanced Research, Patent Trolls, and Pharma Prizes
A final dispatch from the Open Science Summit.
A Genetic Testing Dupe?
The government says I am being misled by useless information about my genes. I disagree.
Got Environmental Problems? Think Government.
Foreign Policy identifies true environmental catastrophes, but misses the main cause.
Ideas Having Sex
How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith
Do Liberals Suffer from Arrested Moral Development?
What 10-year-olds and liberals have in common.