Doubt cast on lunar ice deposits BBC News - By Paul Rincon. Hopes that the Moon's south pole has significant water ice deposits that could be used to set up a lunar base appear to be unfounded, a study says.

Nintendo launches cheap but innovative Wii in US The Japan Times - NEW YORK (AP) More than a thousand fans lined up in Times Square for the Sunday launch of Nintendo's entry into the battle of video game consoles, the cheap but innovative Wii.

I debated Lee Silver last year at Princeton and reported it on this blog (for a video of the debate, go here). Silver is a Princeton bioethicist with...