How Science Suppresses the Sex Lives of Republicans

Here is a Cretaceous mystery.

Three different species of dinosaur are found in one filled-in pit. They are well preserved, although the method by which it happened is unknown. It’s not a “whodunit”, but a “what-dunit.”  There are clues as to the case, though. And they can be…

Arrested Development since the Arrest of Socrates

In the 4^th Century BCE, soldier and scholar Xenophon of Athens put to papyrus his arguments contesting charges by the Athenian court that his esteemed mentor had been corrupting the City’s youth with inappropriate religious teachings and an…

Manchester’s industrial economy was growing. The city’s population continued to rise, having more than tripled in the first half of the nineteenth century. Standards of hygiene had  also begun to improve with better understandings of the roots of disease and demands of public health. However,…

Images have power.

Every news outlet in the world knows it. Photographs, cartoons, sketches, whatever–all have been and continue to be used to illustrate articles. Get the right image, and the story writes itself. And more often then not, the story that gets written has more to do with the…

Having just taken on the post of Evolution Correspondent here at The Faster Times, it seems fitting that I begin with a justification for this column’s existence.

Evolution is life’s central theme, and, as such, it has maintained a preeminent standing in the human mind; it holds our attention…

Brian Cottoir is the sort of technical guy who doesn’t have a website, but who has tapped into a hip artistic scene drawn to the unusual aesthetics of the historical science that he studies. Cotnoir is a practicing alchemist—by his own admission, one of the last of his kind.

After an hour…

The social behavior of alligators showed up in the news recently with this article, where National Geographic managed to stay classy by using the phrase “Alligator Baby-Daddies.” Despite this rather questionable choice of phrasing, the article is an enlightening one, informing us of some…

Remember the Exploratorium? Digging your hands in? The exhibits might display the signs of wear but they had bells, whistles, and buttons.

In September of 1969, the doors of the Palace of Fine Arts building in, a leftover of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition opened to reveal a few dozen…