Dean Cornwell, "The Conquest of Yellow Fever," Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

I’ve been re-reading “The Path Between the Seas,” David McCullough’s masterful history of the Panama Canal. In some ways, it’s less timely now than when it was published…

At long last, fossil hunters have found the coveted “missing link.” Again.
Even before naturalist Charles Darwin — born two centuries ago this year — published “On the Origin of the Species,” the phrase “missing link” had entered the lexicon. It…

Ideology, not science, influenced a 2006 ruling by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that limited access to the so-called morning after pill, a federal judge ruled last week.
In that finding, Judge Edward R. Korman arrived a bit late to…

Charles Darwin wasn’t the first to describe what he later called “the struggle to survive,” nor was he the first to say that natural selection best explains why animals are so well adapted to their surroundings.

But Darwin was the first…

Steven Chu

On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama named Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, as his choice to lead the Department of Energy. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between Mr. Chu and the man he probably…

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin round-up:

Mitt Romney says let her speak. Yep. The same Romney thought to be on the VP short list.

Biden beware.

Conservative columnists are not getting in line. Or rather, they are getting out of line.

But when you knock her…

Scary: The Times Online (the Internet site of “The Times” of London) is reporting that we’re running out of Internet addresses. And that could be a problem. From the times:

The world is about to run out of the internet addresses…

An eerie blood-red glow pulsed across the night sky above St. Louis on Nov. 5, 2001. It looked like a conflagration just over the horizon. In fact, it was the aurora borealis, the Northern Lights.
In this part of the Midwest,…

We Americans love freedom. And education. When it comes to education, we especially love “academic freedom.” Who could be opposed to that?

That helps explain why “academic freedom” has become the latest fig leaf for anti-evolutionists. The latest example is a…