Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Another angle on the religion thing.

Maybe.

Harvesting stem cells without harming the embryo may be a technique that circumvents the so-called ethical problems with using discarded IVF embryos to enhance life-saving research.
Now, we can unfreeze the embryos, get the stem cells, re-freeze them, and then throw them in the incinerator.
The sentence you just read is full of snark. Don’t take [...]

It appears that I will have to add an update to this post.
But none of that tirade is true. And many kossacks, instead of asking where from the hell Schweitzer got those “facts” jumped to conclusion and called Gore a hypocrite themselves.
Well, belatedly, Gore responded and so did David Roberts from GRIST Magazin.
All those [...]

Update: It appars the accusations against Gore in the Schweizer article mentioned in this post were mainly false.
Is it Tuesday morning yet? Has Neal Boortz updated his Nuze page yet? If not, then hold on a while longer. I’m posting this Monday, but having read this hit-piece from Sunday’s USAToday, courtesy of [...]

Intermittently, anyway… The school board election appears to have gone moderately well. Waiting for the fat lady on this one.

Some of us will remember how Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and in charge of regulating the Internet, demonstrated his grasp of the technology: It’s not like a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. Now he’s defending himself:
“I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was [...]

We’re getting a little break down in the southeast from the long and intense heat wave that has dogged us for so much of July. Things are still rough out west. Listening to the radio talk about California’s power grid in the midst of all this sticky, I was reminded of something that [...]

kos has the roll-call of“no” votes on stem cell research. Assuming the Bush veto comes as expected, we’re all hoping for an override. I’m placing my bets on the most likely “no” votes to swing to a “yes” on overriding the veto:
Sununu (NH)
Nelson (NE) (D)
Dole (NC)
Graham (SC)
I’d tell you why, but that would be [...]

Using the device, Mr Nagle was able to move a computer cursor to open an e-mail, play simple computer games, open and close a prosthetic hand, and use a robot limb to grasp and move objects.
Mr Nagle said the sensor had restored some of his independence by allowing him to carry out a number [...]