Auld Lang Syne

Jennifer L. Knox Poem-a-Day
New Year's coming, a moment for memories, and a gift seldom appreciated until a person has lost the ability. Poet Jennifer L. Knox's Auld Lang Syne points to a sad irony.

Obama's Dream and Its Contradictions

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic
A look at Obama's core philosophy, his political appeal and accomplishments, his limitations and the constraints under which he governed.

The No Cloning Theorem

Is cloning possible? Not cloning as in Dolly the sheep, but cloning as in a Star Trek transporter? Here is the real science of it.

Neighborhood Atheism

Baba Brinkman and Greydon Square rap about how to approach the world morally without religion.