It was a good thing I had arrived at the airport early today. I boarded the train to go from Terminal B to C in Houston, but the train didn’t move for minutes. Finally staff came up and said there was a fire drill, and procedure called to stop the train. A fire truck [...]
The New York Times got my hopes up this evening, with an article titled, “Two ‘Bridges to Nowhere’ Tumble Down in Congress”. Reuters’ article says, “‘Bridge to nowhere’ stripped from US funding bill”.
Unfortunately the news is not as good as the titles. From the Times:
Straining to show new dedication to lower spending, House and [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a Wednesday night church service on a business trip. I had missed church on Sunday that week so it was a fortuitous thing. I had been to the church before and was friends with the pastor. As a frequent business traveler I appreciate [...]
The Associated Press reports that the first research group to clone a human embryo may have used eggs provided by the group’s own researchers.
University of Pittsburgh cloning researcher Gerald Schatten said on Saturday that he resigned from the stem cell hub and ended his 20-month collaboration with Hwang because of the South Korean’s “unethical practices” [...]
Posts for the next Lutheran Carnival are due on Friday.
As the number of carnival posts increases, it becomes harder to keep track of people and themes that are posted about, so I created a new static page on the right that will be updated.
I’ve got some submissions so far, and I look [...]
