1/30 Spiked Online’s Richard A Shweder re-evaluates racism and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
1/28 Educators Marsha Enright and Doris Cox provide a fine overview of Maria Montessori’s educational philosophy and methods.
1/26 New Scientist reports new research on love, lust, and brain science.
1/24 Tech Central Station’s Ralph Kinney Bennett admires the achievements and significance of the Wright brothers.
1/22 Michael Fumento on the promise of biotechnology.
1/20 What is your ethical philosophy? Try SelectSmart.com’s Ethical Philosophy Selector. My results are here.
1/19 Joanne Jacobs’s education web log.
1/18 At FreeMarket.net, J. D. Tucille provides an overview of the causes of – and solutions to – high medical costs.
1/17 Associate Editor Franklin Foer on soccer as a case study in the successes and challenges of globalization. (Via Arts & Letters Daily.)
1/17 And let us not forget who won this year’s college soccer championship.
1/16 Economist Tyler Cowen summarizes new data on whether America is an income caste society.
1/15 The Objectivist Center’s Will Thomas explains the Objectivist view of free will.
1/14 Columnist Virginia Postrel on the importance of Friedrich Hayek.
1/14 Who’s more important to the future of the humanity? Economist Glen Whitman tallies the score: Salma Hayek versus Friedrich Hayek.
1/13 Physician Sydney Smith on the trial lawyers’ latest target for elimination: vaccinations.
1/12 Reason’s Ron Bailey nicely summarizes the scientific and political debates over DDT and malaria.
1/11 Michelle Fram-Cohen reviews John Malkovich’s The Dancer Upstairs.
1/10 24 Nobel Prize winning scientists have signed the AgBioWorld Declaration of Support for Agricultural Biotechnology. Bring on the Frankenfoods!
1/10 Web logger Robert Bidinotto investigates: Why do Doom-and-Gloom Environmentalists hate Frankenfoods?
1/9 The New Yorker’s Daniel Mendelsohn on Donald Kagan’s new book and the continuing relevance of the Peloponnesian War. (Via ButterfliesandWheels.com.)
1/8 Economist Alex Tabarrok graphs Steven Pinker’s data on cross-cultural comparison of male deaths in war in the 20th century.
1/7 Eyal Mozes takes on the dogmatic determinism of Daniel Dennett’s latest book.
1/6 The Fraser Institute’s John Graham reviews a Canadian film targeting the destructiveness of socialized medicine. Update: See also Ed Hudgins’s review.
1/5 Slate’s Laura Kipnis asks: Should colleges ban sex between professors and students? Update: E. Ruth Klein argues that such bans are insulting to both parties.
1/4 Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues against the Precautionary Principle.
1/3 The Cato Institute’s Richard Rahn compares private and government ownership of land.
1/2 Daryl Cobranchi’s libertarianism and education web log.
1/1 Space.com presents the top 10 astronomy images of 2003. (Via The Volokh Conspiracy.)