Posted in My Thoughts on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By David Gardner, Photomontage by Charlie Bibby
Published: April 10 2009 14:43 | Last updated: April 10 2009 14:43
The many faces of Islamic leadership (clockwise from top left) 1. Osama bin Laden; 2. Saddam Hussein; 3. Rashid Rida, influential Islamist scholar; 4. Mohammad Khatami, former Iranian president; 5. Muhammed Abduh, Egyptian religious scholar regarded as the [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why ET’s genetic code could be just like ours
A new thermodynamic analysis suggests that 10 of life’s 20 amino acids must be common throughout the cosmos
Monday, April 06, 2009
One of the great outstanding questions in biology involves the evolution of the genetic code and the fact it relies on 20 amino acids. How did [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come. Hamas’s indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians also constituted war crimes, but do not excuse Israel’s transgressions. While [...]
