Brian Gongol

39 people were killed in two bombings on the Moscow subway system -- a death toll just below those from the 7/7 attacks in London in 2005.

MIT researchers find a physical step in the process of the brain's determination of what is morally permissible and what is not


The active use of MRI scanners, coupled with the selective activation of different parts of the brain appears to make it possible to communicate with some people who are comatose

Members of the US Congress are trying to paint a moral contrast between Google and Microsoft based upon what those two countries are doing in China. But that kind of posturing is more than a little bit insulting, considering the Congress bears responsibility for the spending that has the country $889 billion in debt to China. Moral authority is compromised by reckless behavior.



What looks like strong photographic evidence -- of giant human skeletal remains, for instance -- might just be the widely-circulated work of a Photoshop contest