Thursday, October 11, 2012 It really is as scary as it sounds. Gonorrhea is the newest superbug. Could it become the next AIDS? Click the link above to learn more. BLOG POSTS  | Ravinder Sehgal: The Spread of Diseases in a Changing World
A catchy headline will often evoke thoughts of a loss or major disaster, and we are hounded regularly by information overload that seems ever escalating in exigency. There is a lot of coverage of potential environmental disasters associated with global climate change, but are the fears justified? |  | Seth Shostak: Science From Hell
It's enough to make you alternately laugh and cry. But this daffy performance speaks to a problem even larger than Broun's dreadful ignorance. Why is this gentleman in Congress at all? |  | Hal Herzog: The Problem With Incest: Evolution, Morality, and the Politics of Abortion
The profound negative effects of incest on unborn children raise the issues of moral consistency and of abortion politics. At what point do reasonable people temper logical consistency with compassion and common sense? |  | Agustin Fuentes: Is Inequality in Our Genes?
Inequality is part of modern humanity, but the ways in which it is maintained and exploited are not fixed in our culture or in our genes. Maybe we need to take a lesson from our recent and distant ancestors and act socially, cooperatively, to mediate and moderate the ways in which inequality plays out in our society. |  | Gregory Schrempp: Mythology and Science; Or, What Do We Want From Popular Science?
Carl Sagan (Cosmos), citing the origin of everyday chemical elements in stars, concludes that "We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos." Obviously Sagan is not talking literally, but just as certainly he knows the power of anthropomorphic appeal. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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