The Lippard Blog

Now on YouTube, "In God We Teach," a documentary about Matt LaClair's exposure of his U.S. History teacher's proselytizat...

Below these two videos is a post I made (perhaps to the Kate Bush fans' "love-hounds" mailing list, I don't recall) back ...

British former surgeon Andrew Wakefield, whose discredited and abusive research was responsible for the resurgence of measles outbreaks in t...

Science fiction has been a popular genre at least since Jules Verne’s 19th century work, and arguably longer still. But can it have practica...

Matthew LaClair, who exposed his proselytizing U.S. history teacher/youth pastor in 2006 , now hosts his own radio show, "Equal Time fo...

Studies of the public understanding of science generally produce results that show a disturbingly high level of ignorance.  When asked to ag...

Today I went to hear Bruce Wagman speak on the subject of "Many Species of Animal Law" at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor Colleg...

Yesterday I heard Joel Garreau speak again at ASU, as part of a workshop on Plausibility put on by the Consortium for Science, Policy, and O...

The following is a letter to the editor of Arizona State University's State Press that the paper didn't print. It was written in r...

Today I attended a lecture at ASU by Washington Post writer Joel Garreau, author of Edge Cities and Radical Evolution , about the future o...

This blog is entering its fifth year today, and the content will be shifting a bit now that I am returning to school. Today was my first da...

Via Pharyngula , a video rebuttal to a recent Bill O'Reilly show claim that Amsterdam's drug policies are a failure that has led it ...

This is a reverse-chronological list of conference and talk summaries I've written up, either at my blog or elsewhere. Most pertain to ...