The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.