Forensic experts have done their number on the skull of St. Nicholas of Myra and have reconstructed what this notable 4th century Christian–who slapped Arius at the Council of Nicea and was famous for his generosity to poor children– must have actually looked like: The
More climate research manipulation, this time on the most used and the most easily-abused source of popular information, Wikipedia: The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm. The emails also describe how
Here is a fascinating article on the battles that are brewing among Democrats over the Health Care Reform bill, now that a delicately compromised Senate bill will have to be reconciled with a delicately–but differently–compromised House bill. The story contains this tidbit, the price Senator
On Friday night, we had nearly a foot of snow, and then on Saturday it just kept snowing, with wind and whiteout conditions creating a true blizzard, and when it was over we had another foot. I don’t remember getting this much snow in such
The snow reminds me of an image in Milton’s Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, in which he associates the work of Christ with the snow of winter, which covers up the dead ground with a mantle of purity, just like Christ covers our
To placate pro-life Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the Senate worked out this compromise in the Health Care Reform bill: Under the new abortion provisions, states can opt out of allowing plans to cover abortion in the insurance exchanges the bill would set up. The
New fronts are opening up in the Climategate scandal. One is a Russian front. A Russian research agency claims that climate scientists ignored data from that country’s vast landmass and instead cherry-picked evidence to make it look like Russia provided evidence for manmade global warming.
Avatar opens today, the 3-D science fiction epic by James Cameron that some say will change filmmaking forever. I plan on seeing it when I can. In the meantime, if any of you see it this weekend, please tell us how it is. Specifically, how
Biblical Archaeology Review has a good scholarly discussion of why Christmas is celebrated on December 25. And it is evidently NOT because it was superimposed on a pagan holiday: The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was
From Dana Milbank, who covers politics for the Washington Post: Tea parties — they aren't just for conservatives anymore. Liberals are turning against President Obama with an energy that until now has been reserved for Fox News viewers who wear tri-corner hats and wave yellow
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