Latest Salvo in War on Science
It’s a good thing scientific principles don’t depend on a popularity contest to be true or we’d still be in the Dark Ages. Playing on the emotional appeal of “fair play,” creationism proponents in Texas want the theory of evolution included in the curriculum, weakening the rigor of the state’s science education.
WebGrrlz!?
“No wonder that girls post aggressive warnings on their sites such as, ‘Do not jock, copy, steal, or redistribute any of my stuff!’ or, more to the point: ‘hotlink and die.’”
— New York Times
Business Gets More Protection than Patients Do
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warns that Congress passed a 1976 medical device manufacturing law to protect consumer safety, not to keep citizens from seeking redress under state laws when federal regulators don’t go far enough.
Semicolons Rawk!
The lowly semicolon, shunned as a “pretentious anachronism” and too effete, experiences a stunning revival in the unlikeliest of places: the New York City subway.
