Recent groundbreaking research indicates that (are you sitting down?–I don’t want to feel responsible for anyone who hurts themselves falling to the floor in shock) many teenage girls feel pressure from boys to have sex.

Amidst media hysteria from Al Gore’s latest propaganda, Iain Murray has some suggestions for the most sensible approach to the problem if it is a problem–adaptation.

Not that I’m a conservative, but I think that many of those who are will find it useful. A petition for conservatives against Intelligent Design.

And you thought there was a Republican war on science? Check this out. Iain Murray has more thoughts.

For Kyoto:

Translated: the developed countries realize they aren

For Kyoto:

Translated: the developed countries realize they aren

For Kyoto:

Translated: the developed countries realize they aren

TCS Daily is on Al Gore’s case.

Gregg Easterbrook (who seems to be better at this stuff than he is at space policy) pans the “documentary” as well.

[Update on Thursday morning]

How Kyoto held back progress in solving the problem.

[Another update]

Al Gore’s penguin army.

[Late morning update]

Editor Nick Schulz responds to “rebuttals” to the TCS Daily piece.

For those who think that Intelligent Design is a “conservative” (as opposed to a religious) fetish, Anthony Dick has a review of what sounds like an interesting documentary, Flock Of Dodos, over at National Review. No new arguments in support of science, but he puts forth the old ones well.

Maybe.

Smart cooks know they can ferment beans, and make them less gas-inducing, by cooking them in the liquor from a previous batch. But Granito’s team wanted to find out just which bacteria were responsible for this.

When the researchers fermented black beans with the two bacteria, they found it decreased the soluble fiber content by more than 60 percent and lowered levels of raffinose, a compound known to cause gas, by 88 percent.