Today's headlines mostly got it wrong: The New York Sun said "Study Shatters Myth That Boys Are Better At Math." The New York Post said "Girls = boys in math…

If you doubt any claim made about man-made global warming, Jennifer Jacquet thinks you are a "miscreant" and on par with those who deny that "smoking causes cancer." She also…

The headline comes from this article at NASA, sent in by reader "Mike D." The gist of the article is "that there's nothing to report." Says David Hathaway: "There have…

UPDATE: Christian Toto, over at Pajama's Media, has seen the HBO Generation Kill and says "The new HBO miniseries on Iraq is well-executed, but its anti-war bias is clear." Make…

This story has been making the rounds (I first heard of it from Roger Kimball's blog). It's so incredibly asinine that it deserves broad exposure. The headline from England's Telegraph…

Here's the problem. You are a scientist, working on measuring the levels of aragonite in ocean water. It's not very sexy and nobody beyond a small cadre seems to care.…

I am in Ithaca, New York, teaching a short course at Cornell University. Have you ever visited Ithaca? It was once voted the "most enlightened city in America" by the…

Yesterday, there were several protests in New York City. The participants were ``outraged" over the recent acquittal of two black cops and one Lebanese cop who shot and killed Sean…