See my latest published book review. Only a Theory is written by the scientist/author whose testimony was most critical in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case in which community members challenged a school board's decision to include Intelligent Design in the science curriculum and won.

Despite perceptions that the nation is losing its competitive edge, the United States remains the dominant leader in science and technology worldwide, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

You can only get so many degrees in college. I can't get enough of them. Can you?

People who read my blog entries and comments on others know about my great concern for science education.

I've even posted a few blog brags about my children's science books and my school visits. But this blog entry brags about work that my son is involved in.

Read on, please!

The summer internship program at the Harvard Laboratory of Developmental Studies began this Monday.

Stirring the pot....

How much was the asbestos industry worth - how much did it cost in the long run? Have we not learned anything?

The Missing Link - a monthly podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology - has just released its eleventh episode at http://missinglinkpodcast.com.

I comment on an article in the Washington Post that discusses the United States' loss of stature among scientists and explain why I have high hopes that it is only a short-term phenomenon.

According to the central hypothesis of a project undertaken by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Old Albanian had a significant influence on the development of many Balkan languages. Intensive research now aims to confirm this theory. This little-known language is being researched using all available texts before a comparison with other Balkan languages is carried out. The outcome of this work will include the compilation of a lexicon providing an overview of all Old Albanian verbs.