Behold the Ape One of the things I find difficult to discuss with fellow Liberals is the question of intelligence and its heritability.  T...

He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth --Moroccan proverb- I suggest the same is true of those who quote or sp...

There are many metaphors for the human tendency to assemble an argument from useless or irrelevant fragments. "grasping at straws"...

It's an odd fact that, for some male astronauts like former Space Station resident Mike Barratt, spending 6 months without gravity prod...

The last time I watched the movie Spirit of St Louis , about Charles Lindbergh's 1927 flight across the Atlantic, I wondered what he w...

I search for truth in our shared experiences, our disagreements, the good that humankind promotes and the evil that we enact. We are artists...

Say first of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? -Alexander Pope- Of course those of the Age of Reason had...