Today is the 206th birthday of Charles Darwin. To commemorate this Darwin Day, which also happens to fall on a (Throwback) Thursday, here is an article I wrote back in 2009 on a brain-machine interface, evolution, and the future of…
This morning, as a parent of children attending Ann Arbor public schools, I received an email concerning “ALICE training” from the superintendent, Jeanice Kerr Swift, Ph.D. But it makes me wonder, are we really focusing efforts and resources most effectively? Today’s…
Well, that’s the big question isn’t it? We all now know Brian Williams’ recent account of being on a helicopter that was shot down is not accurate. But did he lie? There is a difference between being wrong and being…
There’s been a lot of buzz in the news over the past couple of days regarding measles and vaccines. After both Rand Paul and Chris Christie each stumbled on the subject, I was please to see Hillary Clinton weigh in on Twitter…
Orange County, California — great weather, affluent communities, thriving businesses, the original Disneyland Resort, and a measles outbreak. By now you’ve probably heard of the Disneyland measles outbreak. As of yesterday, at least 87 cases of measles have been confirmed across…
Mike Huckabee is worried that the United States has become a “secular theocracy.” But what could that even mean? Consider the definitions of those words: secular (adjective): denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis theocracy…