By now, everyone is so familiar with genetic engineering that if we read some scientist had crossed an octopus with a watermelon to create a waterpus, we wouldn’t blink.  We’d accept it because we’re already familiar with genetically altered tomatoes that look great but tastes

I admire science.  Because of it, we no longer live in caves or worry about why the sun sometimes goes dark.  I’m curious, however, about what attracts a scientist’s attention.  Writer Ray Bradbury wrote that to touch a scientist is to touch a child which means, I suppose, that

A few evenings ago I watched a television program about a group of New York police officers who were obliged to perform their sleuthing duties while wearing hazmat suits. Seeing them at their computers or attempting to answer cell phones through protective gloves and helmets provided