Science as a Wedge

Back in the day, there were always rumors about big colleges accepting more freshman than the school could handle – but then forcing these wide-eyed fledglings through an intensely difficult…

The Midwife Toad

The Case of the Midwife Toad, by Arthur Koestler, focuses on the dispute between the neo-Darwin clan and Lamarckian proponents of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The personal disputes that…

Why the hate…?

There is so much bigoted venom for animal-rights activists and in general for people who advocate for animal rights that it sluices its way into unexpected places. In a not-so-recent…

The Printer Moat

It is the ageless challenge in every office – how do you get people to stop printing crap they don’t need? At the end of every workday, there are printouts…