Why do people think it's selfish to have lots of kids? Recently there was a bit of a dust-up in the combox at my sister's blog, Mama...

Last year, I wrote a post to clear up an assortment of depression and anxiety myths . Here are more myths about depression and bipolar diso...

Anxiety disorders are widely misunderstood. Everybody feels anxious at times, but in an anxiety disorder, the feelings take over a person...

No, don't. Please. Instead, read these articles. I have scoured the WHO and CDC websites and other authoritative sources, applied a g...

Stephen Colbert is a parody of a right-wing talk show host. (Actually, he's more than just a parody; I think he's a complex mix of ...

My stem cell articles for Bright Hub for March have been published. There are some articles about treatments. If you only read one, read the...

During this season of Lent, my parish is using custom-printed booklets for "worship aids" (which we use instead of missalettes). T...

You may know that I write science articles for the a science and technology website called Bright Hub. I just completed a short series on t...

This post is a contribution to the blog swarm "Blog for Darwin," held from February 12-15, 2009, to celebrate the 200th anniversar...

The youngest Leave the lights on blogger, my 14-month-old son, got three shots last week. He and his brother have had every vaccination re...

As a follow-up to my post listing definitions related to the beginning of human life, here are some diagrams I drew (using my mad skills in ...

If you read any of the many blogs or news sources that deals with bioethics, then you will have heard of the story from the BBC that a Brit...

This blog is not all philosophical, rational-Christianity heaviness. Inspired by a post on the blog Hacking Christianity , which I found vi...

The blog Science and Religion News , whose author Salman Hameed strongly favors science over religion, recently posted about two stories out...

Christmas is Western culture's most important holiday, and it is surrounded by lore passed down traditionally. Here are five facts about...

Way back in the day — say, a year or two ago — using search engines to research science topics was rather a crapshoot. I was an active Wikip...

The first photographic images of exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our Sun) have recently been reported in sources including Sci...

I had the misfortune finding an article by one Cynthia A. Janak on Gardasil, the vaccine against human papillomavirus. Though I would like...

"Good" and "evil" are moral values that are defined in a metaphysical context of faith. In Christianity, "good...

Michael Dowd, the self-proclaimed "evangelist of evolution," wants religious people to discard their beliefs while keeping their r...