What is it like doing science in India? Let me make the operating rules clear before I answer. Every question about India has two ‘correct’ answers which say exactly opposite things. Furthermore, each of the one billion Indians will disagree with one another and with what any outsider has to say about India. Being a scientist in India is wonderful. Really. Every good grant proposal gets funded....

One hundred years ago this Sunday, on November th, , Bertrand Russell delivered the Inaugural Address to the Aristotelian Society’s thirty-fourth session – it was Russell’s second year as President. His lecture was entitled ‘On the Notion of Cause’, and as the Proceedings here note, a discussion followed in which a number of members took part. Outside the Aristotelian Society, the discussion co...

Catalan is part of a small but serious cadre of would-be clonees, people who have studied the science, considered the issues and concluded that their pursuit of happiness might best be fulfilled by having themselves or a loved one cloned. Their perspective is not countenanced on Capitol Hill, where Congress -though vigorously debating whether to allow the cloning of human embryos for research -...