There is a certain delicious irony in the devout Catholic former Senator who proposed an amendment (bearing his name) to the 2001 Education Funding Bill calling for the teaching of intelligent design in schools and questioning the scientific basis of evolution, suggesting that the Pope, who holds a degree in chemistry, should “leave science to …
I recently had the amusing opportunity to read an excerpt from an article by Michael Lewis that first appeared in its entirety in The New Republic. The article was about the impact of wealth on the human brain – which is not actually a benign event, as it turns out. Moreover, by changing the brain, …
The other day, I stumbled on a statistic that took my breath away. According to the Washington Post (which seems to be quoting a study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Biological Science), the average US household discards between $1400 and $2300 worth of food annually. In fact, approximately 40% of the edible …