Speculation, Innovation, Regulation
40 years of covering science and technology
Science
A Non-Socialist Alternative to Today's Capitalism
The eternal return of the limits to growth
Heat on PBS Tonight
A review of the new Frontline documentary on big business and climate change
Medical Paternalism and Genetic Testing
Should women be allowed access to a genetic test for breast cancer risk?
Are You Carbon Beta Rated?
Evaluating the impact of carbon controls on American businesses
Partisan Politics and the Science-Industrial Complex
Measuring the Democratic and Republican Party platforms on science and technology policy
Partisan Plans for Energy and Climate Change
Cap and trade, drilling, no nukes, and tax credits for all
A 1-in-1,000 Chance* of Gotterdammerung
Will European physicists destroy the world?
Show Respect for Women: Ban Contraception!
Has Humanae Vitae's proscription against contraception been vindicated?
Fighting Big Solar
Environmentalists clash over paving the desert in order to save the planet
Al Gore's Curiously Cost-Free Plan to Re-Power America
Calculating the costs of 100 percent renewable carbon-free energy in ten years.
The End of Humanity: Nukes, Nanotech, or God-Like Artificial Intelligences?
Closing dispatch from the Oxford Catastrophic Risks Conference
Will Humanity Survive the 21st Century?
Second dispatch from the Oxford Global Catastrophic Risks conference
TEOTWAWKI!
Or, the end of the world as we know it at the Global Catastrophic Risks conference
Attack of the Super-Intelligent Purple Space Squid Creators
Debating evolution and intelligent design at FreedomFest 2008
Does the Invisible Hand Need a Helping Hand?
A behavioral economist explores the interaction of moral sentiments and self-interest
Carbon: Tax, Trade, or Deregulate?
Something is going to be "done" about global warming, so what should it be? A debate.
Energy Wedgists versus Technology Breakthroughists
The future of the world's economy and climate may depend on which side wins
The Top Ten Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
The final dispatch from the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus Conference
The Failure of Centralized Scientific Planning
A review of Sex, Science and Profits: How People Evolved to Make Money
'Technology Is at the Center'
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress
Flunk This Movie!
Ben Stein's new anti-science movie Expelled is all worldview and no evidence.
