Archive for 2009

What I’ve Noticed

Lights on how the Christian community accepts rapists and vilifies their victims. Green spaces make you healthier. I wonder if houseplants help. Banning abortion doesn’t make it rarer, but it does make it more dangerous: unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year.  A lack of access to contraceptives leads to 60 million unintended pregnancies a […]

Can we choose who we will become before we know who we are?

E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.  There is no genetic destiny outside our free will, no lodestar provided by which we can set course.  Evolution, including genetic progress in human nature and human capacity, will […]

Climate Change

Today is Blog Action Day and the hope this year is to get people blogging about, talking about, and discussing climate change.  I talk a lot about climate change on here, but I approach it as a scientist for the most part.  I grew up with people who flat out denied that climate change could […]