Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Regarding the man photographed with a pistol on his hip at a protest today:
I support the second amendment.  I assume that he was obeying the law.  (I am willing to be corrected on that point.)  I support the right to protest (just look at my screen name).  I assume that his intentions were nonviolent.  [...]

By Thoreau
The latest issue of New Scientist reports something absolutely fascinating:  Antivirals that target the host rather than the virus. The basic idea is that they attack the machinery inside the cell that the virus uses to hijack cells.  It sounds completely crazy, like something that a Russian SWAT team would think of–there is no [...]

My phone thwarted my attempts to get pictures of Zach and Kate at play yesterday, so here are three videos of training guru Ian Dunbar: at TED, somewhere else, and at a shelter-related organization. Among positive-training exponents, Dunbar stands out as the man who argued that it’s not only possible to train puppies as soon [...]