Science and Technology

The inaugural Surfrider Foundation Celebrity Surf Jam brings together stars from the world of music, film, professional surfing, and Surfrider Foundation activists from across the country on Sunday, September 11th for a friendly surfing competition in the waters off of Huntington Beach to help raise awareness of the importance and …

I'm not blaming Google for directly censoring anybody, only that they have created the possibility for censorship.

Now we know why Eminem called of his European tour a couple of days ago: today publicist Dennis Dennehy said the rapper formerly known as Marshall Mathers, 32, was “in the hospital under doctors’ care” recovering from addiction to sleeping medication. He had been due to begin the 10-date European …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.

If you are so inclined, this mystery could be “evidence” against evolution: if scientists can’t classify a 525 million-year-old fossil (annelid? arthropod? mollusc? something else?) then why is there any reason to think it “evolved” at all, rather than having been “created” sui generis and sent on its merry way, …

There are many religions on this planet and many of their believers strongly trust that their particular creed is the one and only true faith. As far as I understand it, they all (or at least the vast majority) seem to believe that there is only one God. Setting aside …

As we reported in June, the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s main oversight body, approved a new domain for “adult-entertainment” sites — .xxx — but now the ICM Registry, the not-for-profit group which would operate the .xxx domain name, has …

Just as in the real world though, it seems that in the virtual world money is beginning to matter.

Publishers are sounding more like spoiled children when someone picks up a toy they weren’t playing with than people who care about books.

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.