One of the strangest empirical hills The Establishment has chosen to die defending is that illegal immigrants couldn’t possibly have a greater than normal tendency to litter, the only explanation...
“It’s summer camp for nerds,” one scientist says, as a handful of researchers set sail for Antarctica’s remote Palmer Station as part of a multidecade study on the effects of climate...
From the New York Times today:
Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed)
By Amy Harmon
Oct. 17, 2018
Amy Harmon is a national correspondent covering the intersection...
At what point does calling yourself âpro-lifeâ conflict with being pro-gun? Evangelical minister Rob Schenck, a longtime anti-abortion activist, wrestles with that question...
“Bombs,” drawls a nuclear weapons safety expert in this terrifying documentary, “are relatively dumb.” Combine that with human fallibility and you get something like the 1980 incident...
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t a scientist, but he played one during an impassioned speech before the U.N. this week.
If you haven’t seen “The Great Gatsby” star’s speech,...
It’s false.
Not only does the National Institutes of Health have enough money to study origami-themed condoms, the sexual patterns of fruit flies and whether chimpanzees are right or left...
Look no further than Michael Moore’s latest Tweets on the subject for a glaring example. So it’s refreshing to hear a voice of reason rise up from the din, courtesy of the erstwhile Lt. Dan.
Gary...
New York
WE'RE STILL nine months away from the day when voters get to cast even a primary vote in the contest to fill Pat Moynihan's Senate seat. Neither of the two expected...
What if, some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you...
AFTER SPENDING THREE MONTHS ON an investigation that must have rung up hundreds of thousands of dollars in billable hours, the team of lawyers hired by CBS to investigate its scandalously spurious report...
Religulous Directed by Larry Charles It is the thesis of the new nonfiction film Religulous that religion is a "neurological disorder," and that "belief must be destroyed so that mankind might live."...
When Barack Obama gets called “dude” by a comedian with a fake-news cable program whose audience is a fraction of the size of Johnny Carson’s a quarter-century ago, you know we are deeply...
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects is one of those rare movies that spends an hour seeming to be one thing until it pivots, about two-thirds of the way through, and becomes something entirely different....
After receiving some gentle push back on yesterday's post about the Onion taking grief for publishing a post that uses a theoretical act of violence as its hook, allow me to make a pedantic (but apparently...
By Since I was late, this year, in getting together my list of the Best and Worst Movies of 2006, I decided to post them right before the Academy Awards were given out. Better late than never. You’ll...
For those of you unfamiliar with Devin Faraci, he is a well-known movie blogger going back more than a decade, beginning most prominently with the geek-site CHUD before launching Birth.Movies.Death in...