Science & Technology
Coal In Our Stockings: The Destruction of Medical Innovation
Obamacare's "Comparative Effectiveness Review" process will stifle medical technology innovation.
DNA: It’s Not Just for the Living Anymore
Life is analog, not digital, and DNA is a template for the nanomachines in our future.
Anti-Fracking Greens and Their War on the Poor
Hydraulic fracking makes natural gas less expensive and lowers heating costs benefiting the poor.
Our Long National Light Bulb Nightmare Has Been Averted — For Now
Pernicious ban on sales of 100-watt incandescent bulb delayed till September 30, 2012.
A New Age of Low Cost Launch?
The biggest airplane in the world as a launch platform for rockets into space.
Are There Health Effects Due to the Financial Crisis?
What ails the Greeks can't be treated by doctors.
The Nanny State Wants Your Cell Phones
The recommended federal ban on phones while driving is a solution in search of a problem.
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Nanobots
Like the fictional young geniuses Phineas and Ferb, real scientists are "creating nanobots" — despite attempts in some quarters to dismiss them as fiction.
Is Salt Really Bad for Your Heart?
Will the killjoys at the American Medical Association finally allow the Morton's Salt Girl to come out and play?
Empowering Telecom Job Creators
Two proposed bills—one pro-business, one pro-regulation—face off in New Jersey.
Obama: Can Old Friendships Survive His Divisive Presidency?
PJ Advice columnist Belladonna Rogers on whether a friendship forged decades ago can endure the ultra-partisan Age of Obama.
The Measure of a Life Worth Living
A peer reviewed study shows that some people living in a vegetative state may be more "alive" than previously thought.
The Skunk at Your Door: The Sadistic Narcissist with the Very Large Suitcase
PJ Advice columnist Belladonna Rogers provides 12 time-tested tips to help retain your sanity during a really long weekend.
The Boorish Liberal at Thanksgiving Dinner
PJ Advice Columnist Belladonna Rogers on coping with the inevitable relative who turns up every year, preferring a debate to a drumstick.
The End of the Light Bulb as We Know It
Why Americans are hoarding incandescent bulbs before darkness envelops us all on January 1, 2012.
Another DOE Loan Scandal: Are We Bailing Out Spain’s Solar Collapse?
Following the collapse of Spain's solar sector, a Spanish company with ties to Democrats received $2.7 billion in US Energy Department loans.
E.Coli in Organic Food Leads to 50 Dead in Germany
Perhaps health-food and vitamin supplements should be labelled, “Warning: Over-Concern for Your Health May Be Damaging to Your Health.”
Wasted ‘Climate Change’ Cash Could Save Lives Instead
Tomorrow’s theoretical problems have been trumping today’s urgent needs.
Old Flames: Heaven, Hell, and Eternity
PJ Media Advice columnist Belladonna Rogers on the dangerous allure of the past.
For Tiffany, All that Glitters Isn’t Gold
The fashionable jeweler has joined an effort to block an Alaskan gold mine from operating.
The New Paganism of Biodiversity
Dispatches from the Society for the Protection of the Malaria Spirochete.
‘Shuttlyndra’ and the Smoking Rocket
A NASA study, suppressed by the agency, definitively shows that the Senate Launch System isn't needed.
It’s the Space Development and Settlement, Stupid
Columbus didn’t sail across the seas for the sake of “exploration.”
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