Culture and Society

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 …

Have a little faith in your congregation's ability to think for themselves.

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.

The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.

Monday, Yahoo! announced that it has over 20 billion indexed web pages and web files in its search engine. In a huge expansion effort, Yahoo! almost doubles its capacity over that of Google’s roughly 11 billion web elements. “Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo’s database, 19 billion are documents, …

President Bush will sign a new energy bill today that will extend Daylight Savings by four weeks – it will start three weeks earlier and end one week later – in an attempt to save energy and money. The problem is that most consumer electronics rely on the daylight savings …