We had to make room on the front page of the site for other things, but still wanted to make…
NRA Lullaby (sung to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”) Stephen Baird, 2008 God rest ye merry, citizens…
The average price of regular gasoline is now above $4.00 a gallon in the United States. It has been way…
Last year at UCSD, just before our annual Darwin’s Birthday concert, I was approached by Wendy Ward and her cameraman,…
William F. Buckley, Jr. died this week at the age of 82. During his long life he made the case…
In the December, 2007, Annals of Neurology, Sam Harris, Sameer Sheth, and Mark Cohen published a functional magnetic resonance study…
During the year 2007 we lost several people important to science. I was fortunate enough to “know” or at least…
I wish to draw attention to several issues which I think are of paramount political and humanitarian importance but which…
Dr. Baird has a bit of free time on his hands now that he’s “retired”. So, he’s going to start…
Almost the whole country has seen the video of a policeman manhandling a student in a math class in South…