Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

Jack Shafer of Slate and Ann Gerhart of the Washington Post are doing excellent work amid this chaos.

I have seen some excellent media coverage of the storm disaster and its impact and a great deal of terribly sensationalistic coverage. I thought I’d take a moment to point to two stories that I think are excellent, the kind of journalism I would have been proud to have run …

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

Hey, animals are people too. Well, no, actually, but they can be friends, even best friends, and in a time of crisis they deserve our attention too. Thousands of animals were left behind when their humans evacuated. Best Friends Animal Society is doing its best to coordinate the efforts of …

Ornamental vocabulary plug-ins help to add colour, but they have a tendency to override the commonsense attributes...

Susan Wood, director of the FDA's Office of Women's Health, has submitted her resignation in protest over what appears to be another instance of the Bush Administration overruling the opinions of its own scientists.

The purpose of the investigation, Boehert said in a letter, "seems to be to intimidate scientists rather than to learn from them."

E.M.D.R. offers a means to find your way clear of a past that could be crippling your future.

I'm not up to six yet(cups of coffee) and I don't think I should play around with something as dangerous as type two diabetes.

Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. (“When the Levee Breaks” Led Zeppelin) Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on the morning of August 29 – there …