Ex-spy fingers Russians on WMD
Ion Mihai Pacepa, a Romanian, is the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc.

The true story of Adam and Eve

A Stern Opinion: MBA Students, Aristotle, and Ethics
"I recently finished a class in professional responsibility. It was interesting, but I fear that the result of the class will be less ethical, not more ethical, MBAs. The reason is that the course generally reflected current mainstream thought in ethical theory, which typically suggests that "crime pays," while virtue and ethical behavior consists of self-sacrifice. The conclusion that an ambitious student might draw from this is that ethics is for suckers and losers, while moral corruption is the path to riches and success."

Betting on the Planet
In 1980 an ecologist and an economist chose a refreshingly unacademic way to resolve their differences. They bet $1,000.

Vision Quest
"The Dobelle artificial vision system feeds images from a digital camera to a belt-mounted signal processor, then sends the images through the skull, and into the visual cortex."

In Germany, Plasticized Corpse Exhibit Proves Shocking but Educational
The life-sized figures are posed in familiar human activities like running, standing or sitting, but unlike the specimens at a conventional science museum, the Runner and his numerous colleagues are real human corpses.

Protect National Security and Individual Rights with Military Tribunals
"Military commissions can allow the use of classified information without endangering sources and methods."

Sesame Street, Epistemology, and Freedom
"Nothing is ever about just one thing."

Libertarianism and Philosophy
"Libertarians are the classic example of how you cannot primarily pursue a negative value."

Netanyahu on terrorism
"What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our civilization."

Health Care Is Not A Right
"Observe that all legitimate rights have one thing in common: they are rights to action, not to rewards from other people."

Private Regulation
"A Real Alternative for Regulatory Reform."

'What is the Higgs boson, and why do we want to find it?'
Five winning entries at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. (9/8/2000)