Earthquakes, whether you're a believer or an actuary, are "acts of God." We humans do not have the power to predict, stop, or cause them. So we all jumped a bit at a headline in The Telegraph of... [continue]

John Hanke, the entrepreneur who started what is now Google Earth, has slowly been taking over the universe. He already had the earth in glorious detail. Now he's added Mars and the heavens and --... [continue]

Charles Darwin's 200th birthday is Feb. 12, and he is still controversial. A new book, "Darwin's Sacred Cause," just published by two British science historians, argues that the "source of the moral... [continue]