Careful What You Say Your Unborn Baby Is Listening

Prospective parents may be more careful in what they say upon learning of recent research published by the journal Current Biology.  Apparently, the fetus can hear language spoken around itself and develop a...

Octuplets' Mom Accepts Angels in Waiting Offer of Help

Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman has decided to accept the offer of help Gloria Allred and the nonprofit group Angels in Waiting presented to her a few weeks back. A statement from the Dr. Phil Show released on Monday...

Sweden relaxes stance on weird children's names

Sweden has relaxed its rules on naming children weird things like Heineken, Mouthpad and Dubble Bubble. The country once frowned on such lapses of judgment, but, according to one official, it's no longer considered 'negative' in this day and age to name children after...

Sextuplet parents to fight B.C.'s life-saving intervention

Religious views vs. life-saving measures: where does the right lie?"The Vancouver parents of sextuplets born in January are now in a legal battle with the province, claiming the government violated their religious rights when social workers seized three of their newborns to...

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

"Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to...

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