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On the plane, among other things, I read Christopher Hitchens’ review of several recent Kennedy-related books. As per usual, only a measly two paragraphs are online, but if you can dig it up, do read (there’s more in the issue, of course, and I’ve yet to crack the Fallows’ article on why he says we’ve…

Son #1 calls to inform me of two interesting points of his day: 1) He decided to go to noon daily Mass at the Cathedral, interesting since I don’t think he knew before he went that it was St. Augustine’s feast day – St. Augustine being kind of important to him because a history course…

Stephen Barr offers a brief intro at First Things. An extremely important effect in physics called the “diffraction” of light was discovered by Fr. Francesco Grimaldi in the seventeenth century (something no physics textbook that I have ever seen bothers to mention, so that few scientists are aware of it). One of the top biologists…

Last week’s supposedly non-destructive embryonic stem-cell research breakthrough has, in the course of a few days, been exposed as not such a breakthrough and rather destructive after all. For a summary, go to Wesley Smith’s blog – Smith commends the Economist today for getting the story right: Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles: Proving that…
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