Terry Gross interviewed Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin yesterday on Fresh Air. Holtz-Eakin was the former director of the Congressional Budget Office and is now joining the Council on Foreign Relations.
In the interview yesterday, he did a great job of explaining the budget process, the cost of various important programs like Social Security and Medicare / […]

The BBC reports that more than half of Britons do not believe in evolution, and that over 40% of them feel that intelligent design or outright creationism should be taught in public schools. Compare these stats with America, where over 50% of Americans also don’t believe in evolution.
Here’s the rub: when we start framing […]

The excellent editor’s weblog lists eight news trends from 2005 that they believe will continue in 2006.

This report discusses an important move by the Vatican which reiterates its commitment to maintaining a respectable division between faith and science. Quote:
In an editorial by Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, Italy, the newspaper said proponents of intelligent design improperly blurred the lines between science and faith to […]

Wired ran an interesting piece about kaos.theory’s recent project, a fully secure, anonymous operating system bootable from CD called Anonym.OS. It runs on OpenBSD, an open source Unix variant well-known for its security features. It also makes use of the Tor network of encrypted servers for anonymous browsing.
In this age of hyper-aggressive media corporations and […]