The Lippard Blog

The powersquid . (Seen in an advertisement in a recent in-flight magazine.)

Tomorrow's Washington Post reports that : Federal authorities are investigating allegations that a California defense contractor arrang...

President Vicente Fox says he will sign it . Looks like we'll get a chance to see how well decriminalization works a bit closer to home ...

Radley Balko reports on the torture of Lester Eugene Siler, an illiterate man, by five sheriff's deputies in Campbell County, Tennessee...

Here's a nifty little device that sits on your tongue and electrically stimulates it via 144 microelectrodes. Your brain figures out h...

Looks like there's some evidence that Bush's new press secretary, Tony Snow, is an advocate of intelligent design .

Ed Brayton has written an excellent article describing how many major intelligent design arguments come directly from the creationist litera...

Author Lewis Perdue wrote a book titled The Da Vinci Legacy which was first published in 1983. That book really does seem to have some ver...

Josh Marshall writes : The grand ole daddy of special interest giveaways -- Congress to give away the Internet. This is serious. Find out...

I received a mailing today from the "Protect 21 Coalition" asking me to contact my legislators to tell them to oppose Senate Bill ...