Science & Technology

Rob Natelson, who taught law for 30 years and wrote The Original Constitution, blasted the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the ObamaCare insurance mandate under the congressional taxing authority. Although I do not always agree with Natelson’s views on political matters, his comments here are spot on. When it takes effect…

What does the Supreme Court’s decision upholding ObamaCare mean for you? What does it mean for the future of the nation? Although volumes can and will be written about the decision and the law it addresses, a number of consequences stand out. The individual mandate violates moral rights. The ObamaCare…

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the heart of ObamaCare: the “individual mandate” forcing people to purchase government-approved health insurance starting in 2014. Beyond the constitutional issues, this decision offers two major lessons, one political, the other, moral. The political lesson is that “ObamaCare,” while spearheaded by the…

On Monday the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced “a major legal victory for cancer patients and their families from across the nation.” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to seek Supreme Court review of a March 2012 decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that compensating most…

How refreshing to see a successful innovator use the term selfishness appropriately—that is, to refer not to activity that harms others, but rather to activity that advances one’s own proper, rational self-interest. In a recent interview with BBC, Linus Torvalds, originator of the Linux operating system, explained why he regards…

It’s almost as though some politicians want to kill people. Certainly the political assault on medical freedom threatens people’s lives. Consider a couple recent news stories. John Graham writes for Forbes about ObamaCare’s “2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices,” a tax he describes as “a savage blow to innovation.”…

A new study has announced a major advance in the battle against cancer. Seth Augenstein reports: In a study published [May 14, 2012] in the journal Cancer Cell, four scientists from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Institute for Advanced Study laid out their work involving a compound…

Cathy Hutchinson, who has been paralyzed for more than 15 years due to a stroke, recently directed “a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips,” using only her mind—and some mind-bending new technology, the Associated Press reports. “The device, called BrainGate, bypasses…

Here’s a beautiful story about what a curious and creative mind can accomplish—even at a very young age. Excerpt from Popular Science: Late one night two years ago, Adam Munich found himself talking with two new acquaintances in a chatroom. One, a Pakistani guy, was complaining about rolling electricity blackouts…

[caption id="attachment_4133" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] “There is so much hope riding on that rocket.” That’s what Elon Musk, cofounder and CEO of SpaceX, said this morning after his company successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket, now carrying supplies to the International Space Station. Musk was talking about the hopes…