Biology, Physics, and the Defense of Reason

Sometimes, encountering the combination of sound thinking and the art of good writing leaves me with little to say. That is the case with the following articles.

I will say briefly that my first encounter with Leo Szilard came through watching Jacob Bronowski's magnificent television series, The Ascent of Man, back in the early '70s. Read more about Szilard and why we need more people like him at Timothy Sandefur's blog, Freespace - thanks to the link at Little Green Footballs.


Thomas Jefferson wrote that race in the United States is "a firebell in the night." The Bell Curve, written by RichardHernnstein and Charles Murray and published in 1994, reaffirmed the volatility of the subject for me. Now, one of my favorite bloggers, ShrinkWrapped, has updated his readers on race and decoding the human genome.

Whether you are on the left or right of the political spectrum, both articles raise interesting questions for political correctness and a few other afflictions that threaten our mental health these days.